Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
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Our blog gives you tips and guides on buying Billiards, Shuffleboards, Darts, Gaming tables and accessories of all kinds. We have been selling fun for 24 years. As expert pool and billiards table supplier, we sell high-quality game room products to our customers by relying on the best manufacturers in the billiard and gaming industry.
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
2M ago
Championship Cloth
There are many different brands of billiard cloth and the choices can be confusing for even the most experienced buyer.
At Big Sky Billiard Supply, we have chosen Championship as our primary pool table fabric vendor. The cloth market contracted in 2009 and we lost several good vendors, but Championship stayed in business and continued to provide an excellent, consistent product. Consistency is key. If you are re-covering a pool table and you spread out your cloth only to find a blemish in the middle of the cut of fabric, it is frustrating. Espec ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
4M ago
Do you want to add another game to the mix in your entertainment space? Double the fun in your game room with a high quality Conversion top!
Conversion Table Tennis tops come in many different sizes and thicknesses. Our preferred conversion tops are the Brunswick Billiards and Olhausen Billiards conversion options. Partly, we like these tops for the quality, but the other part of the equation is shipping. When you ship any large object to Montana, you're going to pay a premium for it and, typically, if it is at all breakable, the shippers will find a way to damage it. In our 28 years of ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
6M ago
Standard Accessory Kit: Retail Price is $475.00 Skip to Custom Premium Option
We include the Standard Accessory kit with your pool table for a discount of 90% [$50] along with your choice of the standard cloth (Championship Invitational 4066) which is included in the price. We recently upgraded the cues and have had to increase the price slightly, but we think it's worth having better cues. If you are changing from a White Box Brunswick Accessory kit to this kit, the upgrade price is $75.00
We created this kit in order to pick those items that we know stand the test of time but won't break the ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
11M ago
ARCADES AND QUALITY
When we first started purchasing Arcades, we noticed that shipping was an important consideration. When Arcades come from mid-country or the East Coast, they consistently arrive damaged. We have searched for the best option on the West Coast and we arrived at Creative Arcades. We researched all of the Creative Arcade products and decided on a couple of models that would provide the most entertainment, the biggest screen, and the best quality. Since we have been purchasing arcades from this company, we have been satisfied with the product. Learn from our experience and purch ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
We always carry the Brunswick table tennis tables because they are easy to assemble, they are high quality, and they meet all the specifications of the National Table Tennis Association. We also like the storage options in the 5.0 and 7.0 models. If you are thinking about an outdoor table tennis model, please remember, you will be playing on an aluminum surface; it's not quite the same as the indoor models you are used to. Prices are subject to change without notice.
The Brunswick 3.0 is $995; set-up and delivery $150 (drive time calculated separately 50 miles outside of Missoula unless we are ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
I just went over a sale from a customer located about 45 minutes outside of Missoula in an effort to figure out why they ordered off of the Brunswick website vs. calling, emailing, or coming into our dealership. You don't have to come in, we can set up your order via email, and it will always be less expensive than buying direct from Brunswick. We would have saved this customer $175 and the customer would likely have gotten better accessories and certainly would have gotten better advice. We deliver new tables anywhere in Western Montana and this customer lives less than 30 miles away, so that ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
If you are purchasing a custom table and you would like a fully custom accessory kit, here are the categories you will need to consider:
Cues
Balls
Ball Racks
Cue Racks
Table Brush/Cleaner
Tip Maintenance
Cue Chalk/Hand Chalk
Bridge/Bridge Head
If you would like us to create the Accessory Kit for you and you would simply like to choose the Cues and Balls, these are the items that are the bulk of the value in the kit, and we can do that. If you have a specific product that you prefer for any of the items in an accessory kit like a favorite type of cue chalk, just let us know and we will provi ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
We try to avoid selling online because there are a million people doing that. That's not what we're here for. If you live in Montana and you need something we have in stock and you need it right away, we can ship it to you. But we're not an online seller and we don't have the staff or inventory to do that. This is my "work-around" so that those of you who don't live in Missoula but would still like to purchase a pool cue can look through our inventory and pick something you like.
Most places in Montana are a day away if we use USPS or UPS, so it's an economical way to get an "overnight" cue ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
If you want to know how the new Cuetec series is made, take a look at this PDF from Imperial International and learn about the new Avid Chroma, Era, Optix, and TrueWood series cues.
These are the "sneaky-pete's" of the Avid series and these have been very popular with league players because they are tough cues that can spend time in the back of the truck overnight in sub-zero temperatures and still play straight the next time you have to show up for league play.
These Avid Era cues come with linen wraps or with no wrap. The other choice is whether or not you would like to play with a 12.75mm ..read more
Big Sky Billiard Supply Blog
1y ago
THREE STYLES: BRUNSWICK, HERITAGE & CENTENNIAL:
Brunswick calls the accessory kits, "Play Packs" (in case you are using a search engine).
If you purchase any Brunswick pool table from us, we can provide either a Brunswick Play Pack, or one of two Custom Play Packs that we create ourselves (Standard & Premium). Please see the post on our BSBS Custom Play Packs on this Blog. You can also click on any of the play pack images below to visit the Brunswick website to view larger images.
THE "BRUNSWICK" PLAY PACKAGE INCLUDES:
Set of standard billiard balls
Four 58" Brunswick® two-piece cues ..read more