Top Quality Pool Table Surface Is Made Of Slate
No pool game can be performed well unless and until the surface of the pool table is well made and the materials beneath the top surface are firm and qualitative. A well constructed pool table makes a lot of difference in the playing conditions and precision you use in your games. The life span of the pool table also depends largely on the materials used. When the Pool tables were first manufactured, they were made of wood.
Later it was found that wood has a tendency to warp quite easily. Therefore the manufacturers started constructing quality table surface with slate instead of wood. However, many expensive billiard tables are made of particle board instead of slates. The pool tables are often made of one piece slate bed or they could also be made with three pieces of billiard slates. The slate bed often has a thickness ranging from 3/4th to 1 inch in size.
Pool table cloth is normally made of 75% wool and 25% fine cotton blending them into a ball so that the ball could roll smoothly. If the thread counts are more then the felt would be better and your pool table. Replacing felt is always an expensive proposition and therefore you must be cautious while buying used pool tables for sale where the cloth might have been torn out and the table is no more conducive for a quality pool game.