CPBA Competition Worsted Professional Pool Table Cloth – Fast Speed High Accuracy Pre-Cut Bed and Rails

Minus half a star because one of the rails comes with the CPBA logo either vinyl or screen printed on. I got no discount to display their logo on my table, so I would have liked all six rails unprinted. Having said that, I bought the oversized 8' cloth, so there's enough overhang to make two extra rail pieces without the logo. The cloth had no defects, and appears to be very high quality. It will give an honest 40mm of stretch across the width of the table. Be carefull cutting the fingers for wrapping & stretching the pockets. Have some glue ready to stop the fraying - the fibers are strong, but the weave likes to fray where the fingers are cut. Good stuff. Buy with confidence.

First, this cloth is great to play on, but it is challenging to install. If this is your first refelting project I'd suggesting something more forgiving. I'm happy with the results, but it took me 6+ hours to do. I feel like it would have only taken an hour or two with more forgiving cloth. I have an 8 foot table, so I ordered the 8' oversize cloth to ensure I had plenty to work with. It left me with about 6" of spare cloth in each direction and 2-3" to work with on the rails. I use the leftover cloth as breaking/jumping pads to make the cloth last longer. The cloth looks great and plays super fast. I can see quite a bit of stretch marks on the underside of the rails from where I over-stretched the material. They're are pretty consistent throughout the rails, so it's not distracting. After many tries, I was able to eliminate the "shadows" on the table bed so it looks perfectly smooth. This cloth is not very forgiving. Forming it into the pockets was nearly impossible. I ended up stapling it in place, then cutting the slits in the fabric and stapling them in place before carefully removing the first set of staples. After playing a few hours per day, the cloth had work well with some bruises from raised-cue shots. Overall is recommend this product.

This cloth plays great and fast and the blue color is awesome. My only complaint is that it leaves a lot of white spots from the cue ball.

the product is very high quality and the seller customer service (I needed help with something) was superb!!

Huge difference between my other felt and this one. The reduction in friction on this felt is quite noticeable. Definitely worth the extra cost

Not by any means a table mechanic, but I’m quite happy with this cloth/felt. There’s extra length to allow for a learning curve which I really appreciate. We bought a table about 6 months before ordering this and we reused the felt that we got with it. It was old and noticeably slow. As soon as I could forget how much of a pain in the rear it was to install, I ordered this. Install was easier since I now had experience with it. Stretch factor was not specified in the box/bag but it’s easily available here in the product description. Very little fibers to clean up and overall it was a great install. Will buy again without reservation. I can’t compare it to a simonis s as I have no experience with it but I will say it’s for sure faster than the napped cloth my table came with.

Absolutely love it!!! We changed the felt because we keep the table outdoors and the old felt was looking old. What we didn’t know was that this felt would completely change our game. Wow it is so fast and accurate. I’ve got my kids yelling out did you see the backspin on that ball. We are playing shots off 3 rails that we really couldn’t get away with accurately before. It’s like buying a whole new table. I made a few mistakes that I’ll talk about. I’m gonna do a little YouTube thing about it. If you have the money have a pro do it. I really only saved $200 by doing it myself. But the recognition from friends and family is worth much more. It’s not something most people would do as a personal project. The mistakes had nothing to do with the company or size of the felt. It was me learning in the process. Still what a wonderful difference. Now my son and his friends are playing every day. And so am I. So well worth it. I may do this every year depending on how it holds up with the new cover. Btw in choosing color. I found a YouTube piece that said black is the worst for playing with contrast. And brighter colors are better. My table is 90 years old so I wanted to go traditional.

The package was shipped well protected in a sturdy OEM bag and padded in a box. After laying out the cloth out there were several creases from folding. Initial impression was there is verry little overhang in width. In fact the cloth did not come to the bottom side of the wood bed. No instructions came with the cloth to indicate the stretch index. I looked it up and it is one inch width 2 inch length. I anchored the cloth exactly to the bottom of the wood bed under the 1 inch slate. On the stretch side after stretching 1 inch I barely had just enough to get to the bottom of the wood bed for staples. The installation was accomplished with a lot of extra work dealing with the width of the cloth. What I didn't realize is the cloth is cut for a "standard 7 ft slate". My slate is oversize by 1 inch in width and length. I didn't know that going in, it was with the help of the supplier I later learned why I had so much trouble. I assume the added 1 on the slate is to compensate for the configuration of the bed rails. My advice to anyone purchasing cloth is measure your slate and get the finished cut size on the cloth to make sure you will have ample margins to work with. If you have 1 inch slate and a 1 inch wood backing you need to know these numbers along with the stretch index to be sure the cloth you are purchasing will fit. It also makes a big difference if you are using staples, or glue. I would have been fine if I glued the cloth down. 8TH ZONE was a pleasure to work with, first class customer service.