![]() A semi-custom table can be completed in two weeks. The frame is carefully assembled on a specially designed bench and moldings are then attached by hand.Ī 100 percent-custom pool table, depending on how intricate the design, can be ordered and at the customer’s doorstep in six to eight weeks. Suppliers are required to document each mill run to ensure lumber quality. The company insists on using only the best materials for its tables, such as Hard Rock Maple and Northern Oak. Very Olhausen Billiards table is designed and constructed with American made products. “We are trying to erode marketshare from other manufacturers by offering the customers what they can’t get anywhere else: a custom-made pool table that we make faster and with more quality than anyone.” E “We don’t anticipate huge growth in people wanting pool tables anymore,” he adds. At one time the company mass-produced pool tables, but has turned into a “full-blown custom shop,” Olhausen says. We also distribute home theater seating.”Įven though production has slowed, pool tables still account for 60 percent of Olhausen Billiards’ business. “We started manufacturing shuffleboard, air hockey and foosball tables. “We needed other options and integrated other games to supplement our sales,” he adds. That number has decreased today to about 10,000, but the company has diversified its product offering to remain viable, Colby Olhausen notes. ![]() We offer all our models – old and new.”īefore the housing market crash, Olhausen Billiards was manufacturing almost 30,000 tables a year. “A lot of manufacturers dump their old models and bring in their new ones. “Every year we come out with new models, but we also keep every model we have manufactured from the past,” says Colby Olhausen, Donny Olhausen’s son. Olhausen Billiards has debuted new pool table models every year since its inception at the annual Billiard Congress of America’s (BCA) International Billiard & Home Recreation Expo. “We offer every type of pool table imaginable from ornate pieces of furniture to professional tournament-quality tables.” “Our tables have become known in the industry as the ‘Best in Billiards’ and I am very proud of that,” Donny Olhausen says. Today, Olhausen Billiards operates out of a 250,000-square-foot facility in Portland, Tenn., and has manufactured more than 500,000 pool tables. Olhausen’s father, Jerry, learned about the billiards industry from his father before leaving Hartley for Las Cruces, N.M., where he started his own billiard sales and service business in 1953.īoth brothers worked for their father while growing up in Las Cruces and decided to begin their own venture in 1972 when they moved to San Diego to start Olhausen Billiards. The Olhausen name has been synonymous with the billiards industry for more than 70 years, when the brother’s grandfather grew tired of growing corn in Hartley, Iowa, and sold the farm to buy a poolroom in town. ![]() “Every Olhausen pool table is still built to order.” “Even though our capacity to produce pool tables has greatly increased, our constant dedication to quality has not changed,” says Donny Olhausen, founder and CEO. ![]() The pair founded the company more than 40 years ago and Donny Olhausen says he now operates the world’s largest pool table manufacturing facility. Reservations are for a minimum of one hour, followed by 30-minute intervals.Brothers Donny and Butch Olhausen’s lifelong passion for billiards laid the foundation for Olhausen Billiards.
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