A well-lighted and well-decorated room as well as interesting pool supplies will surely induce your friends to play billiards and enjoy it. A great billiard party will make your friends remember the time they spent on your game room. Having a game room of your own where they can play anytime means you and your friends need not go to sports bars and wait for your turn to play. There, you have all the luxury of time and space and privacy, you can be boisterous as much as you dare without having to worry about annoying others. You get to enjoy the company of your friends who could be talking about going back for more fun games, so you will surely be throwing more billiard parties.

Every set of billiard balls is made in the same basic way. They are all round, and made of some variation of a plastic compound. The earliest pool supplies were made from wood, with ivory being the next most common material used. This stopped, however, when people realized that they were killing all the elephants off because only 8 balls could be made from the tusks of a single elephant.

Celluloid was used for awhile, but it can sometimes be harmful, so now different chip-resistant plastic compounds are used. Billiard sports experts have their favorite brand of balls to use. The untrained person, however, will probably be happy with any brand of it. Each billiard game is played with a different size and number of supplies.

Each game of billiards uses different billiard equipment. The game that uses the biggest set of supplies is Carom. This game only uses three or four balls, and they are red, white, and white with a dot. There are several games that can be played with these supplies, and they are usually played on pocket-less billiard tables. American billiards pool uses the next biggest one. All of the American games use pocket games, and there are 16 of them. The first 7 balls are solid colors, and the last 8 are stripes.

The cue one is always white. Some games use all the balls, but others use only 10. The next biggest sized game ones are used in British billiards, which is sometimes called blackball. These supplies are 16 again, with half red and half yellow, and a white cue one and a black 8 ball.

There are many different billiard balls. Different balls go with different games. Knowing the ones to use for which billiards game is very important. Impress your friends by talking to a billiard club member about the different kinds of billiards balls they carry.

The first balls are believed to be stone, eventually being replaced by balls made of wood and clay. Rails were mounted around the edge of the table to prevent the balls from falling off. The balls were shoved around the table by a wooden stick called a mace.

In the 1600′s, elephant ivory became the material of choice for billiard balls. Affordable only to the rich and affluent at that time, it offered a glossy, attractive appearance and good performance. The common people of the time used the less expensive wood or clay for their billiard balls.

Ivory balls were expensive and time-consuming to manufacture however. Only 4 or 5 balls could be made from a single ivory tusk, and these tusks had to be imported from Africa or Asia.

The tusks were cut into rough blanks and turned into over-sized balls. These blank balls had to aged for 2 to 3 years to stabilize so they wouldn’t crack and distort when played.

These aged balls were then hand-turned by skilled craftsman to perfectly round balls of just the right size and weight. Many balls were rejected because they were the wrong weight due to different densities of ivory, or the craftsman who made them didn’t make them perfectly round.

Eventually the supply of elephants began to thin out as there were thousands killed to supply the world appetite for billiard balls. Because of this scarcity, ivory balls became even more expensive.

Even with all these faults, ivory billiard balls were still popular by the early 1800s. Due to the limited amounts of elephant ivory available, a contest was held in 1865 by the Phelan and Collender Company of New York City to find a replacement material to make the balls from.

In more recent times, phenolic resin, polyester, and acrylic have replaced the materials formerly used in billiard balls. These materials offer great strength and are highly resistant to chipping and cracking.

You will need a wax to clean your billiard balls. There are plenty of brands of wax and cleaners available in the market specifically for this purpose. Go for the wax that is especially made for the billiard balls. If you will use any other kind, it will leave a residue on your table cloth. Choose the best one for optimum cleaning performance.

Clean the balls with a dry cloth. If this is not enough and the balls still look grimy, use some soap and water to clean them. The next step is to apply the cleaner that you have bought from the market. Simply follow the instructions on the package and get going. Allow the balls to dry after cleaning. The next step is to apply the wax.

You can also try and wash your billiard balls in a dishwasher especially if they are resin-based. Resin balls are just like standard glass in the dish washer. Make them go through a gentle cycle in a normal strength detergent without a steam dry. Harsh detergent will be too rough on the balls and will damage the shiny finish leaving scratches and marks. Furthermore, space them apart. Don’t put them closer in the dish washer. After the cycle, just splash some tap water on them, buff them up and they will be clean and shiny.

If you don’t want to spend money on commercial cleaners and would rather apply some home remedy to clean the balls, hot water and a little mild soap will solve your problem. This is good for polyester based balls. Don’t wash them in the dishwasher. Sponge can be used for removing their tough stains but don’t scrub them rigorously. Simply dry the balls with a clean cloth and then apply wax.

The basic way adopting which the billiard balls are made is rather same. All of the billiard balls are round in shape and are made up of some plastic compound. At the times when people first started with playing the game, they used to have the wooden made balls, later on they used to have those that were made up of ivory. However soon it was realized that killing the innocent elephants just for making the balls of a game was rather not justifiable.

Afterward celluloid was used to make the billiard balls but than it was realized that celluloid is quit harmful for the players, upon this the makers of these balls started using different plastic compounds to make the billiard balls. Generally the players that are new in the game usually do not care about the balls they are playing with, but those that are professional and are considered to be good players usually prefer playing with their favorite balls. Each game of billiard has a unique and different set of balls.

Each game of billiard require a different set of balls and despite of having similarity we cannot use the same balls in different games. One such game that is played on billiard is known as carom. The game only requires three balls to be played and these three colors are red, white and a yellow or white ball with a dot on it.