Painting a pool table - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

Dorman Painting · 02-09-2010, 09:04 AM

I got a request to paint a Steepleton pool table. It's a lower end model, a good looking solid oak table, but certainly nothing fancy. He wants me to paint it a mahogany color.

I told him I would scuff it up, prime with bonding primer and topcoat with oil base. Anyone have a better idea or what products would you use? This is the first pool table I've had to paint. For the record, I told him not to paint it but to give it a maintenance coat of poly, he insisted on painting.

alanbj · 02-10-2010, 10:32 AM

try automotive paint from napa if your gonna spray it or a high gloss industrial oil from sw. it would look sweet with auto paint. I did a coffee table for a nba player a few years ago and they loved it.also your gonna want to put a coat of clear gloss over it to give it depth good luck.

**genecarp** · 02-10-2010, 10:36 AM

Spray it if you can, GMOD

Dorman Painting · 02-10-2010, 02:19 PM

The table can't be sprayed, I really would rather spray it but I don't have the shop or ideal setup to do it that way. I'm going to use an ox hair brush, add some penetrol and it'll look sharp.

But you're saying I need to put a clear coat of gloss poly over the oil base finish? I've never put poly over paint before, just lightly scuff the paint and go uh?

Mr. Mike · 02-10-2010, 02:38 PM

Good luck with that, the best thing to do would be to sand it down and re stain it... and if you want call rack 66 the pool table people in Louisville 969-2222