BILLIARD' BALLS

Here is the difference between carom, american, snooker and pool balls.

Diameter:

Weight:

IVORY BALL

Fabrication:

The billiard ball was made of ivory from elephant tusks.
Today, ivory is forbidden.

The following video gives informations about the manufacturing process:

Description:

Veining on the surface of the balls was representative of the growth of the elephant tusk.





Some minor problems can be taken into consideration:
 

• When time goes by, ivory balls seemed to elongate, due to the tusk's nerve still active. Then the balls became oval.
• An elephant tusk was not always constant in the distribution of the masses. Some balls were relatively unbalanced.
• Sphericity was not perfect, they could deviate from their initial course

ACTUAL BALLS

The composite balls :

The balls are made of composite by the company SALUC.

French billiard balls are divided into several categories:
 

• 3 ball: one red ball, a white ball and a yellow or spot ball
• The quality may be normal or superior
• one of them with a colored spot, or multiple spots, for better visualization of the spin.

The Korean' manufacturer 'Cosmos Billiard' purposes also some 3 cushions billaird' balls:

Thermic stress:

This video shows the thermic stress withstanded by a billiard ball:

MANIPULATION

Storage :

In the past, there was rack to store French Ball Billiard with time counter included:









View with details:

Washing :

There is an example of washing machine for french billiard ball.

The balls are brewed in a cabin in which we introduce some special cleaning fluid.







 

OTHER BALLS

Russian' game balls (big billiard table):

Here is a set of 15 balls.

This russian' balls are bigger than carom balls:

Russian' game balls (small billiard table with bumper and holes):

For the russian billiard, the balls' diameter is 47 MM:

Bowling' game balls

For this game, the balls' diameter is 48 MM and the jack's diameter is 38 MM.

Fantasy balls:

Here are 3 types of balls:

• Ivory ball with drawning
• Politic balls for american' billiard
• Black balls for carom game