Professional Pool Table Product Reviews

While Gandy may be best known for building commercial tables they also built a very nice line of home tables. Commercially, the Big G was quite a success. Eventually pushed out of the market by the much more recognizable name brand in the Brunswick gold crown but still, the Big G was a great table. Solid construction throughout, thick framing, a more solid leg than the gold crown, hardwood rails quality hardware, thick slate, great play and a nice modern styling. Dollar for dollar I would never push anyone away from a Big G compared to any other commercial table on the market. Value of these should be directly comparable to any GC3 on the market. As for their home tables also nothing to shy away from. Great wood selection, professional craftsmanship, quality hardware, slate, lively rails and decent construction. Gandy home tables went from very simple and box like to the standard tapered, routered body with intricate legs. A good quality, solid product makes Gandy a 3rd tier table. The little things are really what keep it from the top 2. On lower end models like the box style the wood on the legs is fairly thin, its only trim not structure but they do tend to un glue over time at the seams. Most Gandy tables copied Brunswick and AMF in the way their blinds are attached but did not manage to do it quite as well. A skilled installer can make them perfect but it can be a pain. Their higher end tables had less issues but were very pricey on the retail end for what you got. Pre install on the used market look to pay no more than $300 for the basic box style Gandy, the standard tapered leg tapered body models, veneered tables and the other lower end models go in the $300 to $500 range. Higher end Gandys may command up to $800 and in rare examples more. At the end of the Gandy company, around 2001, the company became American Heirloom. Although they traded on the Gandy name, don’t make the mistake of thinking this is the same company or product. These tables are not made with much quality and have no real used value at all. If you find one in the $100 range and a professional installer that is directly familiar with them, who knows that they will need parts from their hardware box to replace the junk hardware that made it through the initial install, then go ahead, but as with a lot of table brands out there, you can do a lot better.