The Reno (refinished)

Please Note: The information here is excerpted from the original company sales catalogs for informational purposes and will not always represent the tables in stock or the specific details regarding each individual table.

Technical Information: From page 16 of the 1912 Carom and Pocket Tables Catalogue of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company.

Also available in a combination table. Can be furnished on reasonable notice in 5x10 size.

One of our new styles of billiard tables on which we have secured design patent because of originality and simplicity. It is a good medium grade of table which will certainly be very popular. Design patent awarded May 7, 1912. Produced under various patents granted from 1892 to 1905.

Wood and Finish: Oak and mahogany. The oak is finished in fancy quarter-sawed, our No. 6 medium or golden color, with white Holly inlay. The mahogany is finished in our regular No. 2 stock mahogany color. After being treated with wood filler the exposed wood work is coated with best quality coach varnish and given a high gloss finish.

Construction: Framework of body is 1 7/8" x 12 1/2" wide. Mitred corners. Rigid Construction, Not built in sections. Reinforcing blocks above leg caps 1 3/4" x 8" x 12". Long stretchers 1 1/4" x 5 1/2". Cross stretchers 1 1/4" x 8 1/2" mortised in sides and ends and supported by reinforcing blocks. Reinforced with 1/2" x 6" bolts. Leg bolt caps 9" x 2 1/2" thick. Legs 8 1/4" square and 16 1/2" high. Solid in lower section, compound construction double veneered, 20 inch bolts. The wood construction all of good quality, cabinet made and put together in a most thorough manner. All joints are close and secure and all mitres absolutely accurate. Joints are tongued and grooved, strongly doweled and glued or screwed firmly together. All corners and edges made perfectly smooth and true.

Cushion Rails: Cabinet construction, 1 3/4" x 3 5/8". The hardwood core is reinforced with one thickness of veneer on each side, thereby giving it additional strength. The cap rail is veneered with rosewood.

Slate bed: Good quality Vermont, 3 or 4 slab slate to the set, not doweled, firmly screwed to a wood frame 7/8" thick. Pocket openings protected with wood framing.

Cushions: Standard Monarch, style no. 1888, certified by trademark plate set in cap of cushion rail.

Pockets: No. 3 style, with nickel plated flanges countersunk in cushion rail top, provided with invisible bolts from the lower side of rail. Heavy black cover leather and red trimming leather. No. 30 green worsted pocket nets.