If you are satisfied with Thomasville/Ashley quality furniture, Olhausen makes a good mass produced, American made table. If you want a hand built, quality heirloom, buy a Porter. I would liken the purchase of a Porter and Sons table to the purchase of a Steinway piano. Otherwise, Dwight would have continued using the Renaissance name. American Heritage Billiards (out of Ohio) bought the rights to the Renaissance name when AMF closed.
When AMF ceased operations in 2007, Dwight struck out on his own and founded Porter and Sons. Renaissance was part of AMF Billiards and Games in Bland, Missouri. I've played on his tables they are as true as his craftsmanship. Kinney Billiard Sales has great deals on used equipment such as pool tables, jukeboxes, bumper pool tables, shuffleboard tables, and video games. He's the only guy I know that slightly tensions the cushion rubber and tacks it to the rail with wood glue. And Dwight is fastidious about insuring his tables play well. Besides being a skilled cabinet maker and designer in his own right, Dwight is unequivocally the best furniture finisher involved in billiards, and his son Charlie has followed in his footsteps. Every table he makes is assembled by hand and stamped, sanded by hand, and meticulously finished. I've seen him take a raw piece of Honduras Mahogany and hand carve a pattern from his sketch. Cap Porter even designed tables for Brunswick in the early 1970's, such as the "Orleans" model.ĭwight Porter is a rare second generation breed of craftsman. Bailey, and Imperial have all "borrowed" his designs over the years. Companies such as Olhausen, Golden West, American Heritage, C.L. A skilled cabinet maker (he taught cabinet making at a leading technical college in SoCal) and superb designer, Cap Porter pioneered many of the furniture pool table designs of today, using classic design elements from masters such as Thomas Chippendale. Porter (aka "Cap" Porter) founded both the Tiffany and Renaissance pool table manufacturing companies back in the 1960's and 1970's.
Dwight has spent nearly his entire life building high end pool tables. Porter & Sons is owned by Dwight and Shannon Porter.
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