About Hatch Billiards

Howard Hatch has been creating elegant contemporary furniture for residences and institutions for 28 years. A commission for a custom pool table in1999 led to his current offering of pool tables and related furnishings. All work is produced in his studio in Conway, New Hampshire.

        

Hatch Billiards is a featured dealer for Schuler Cue and affiliated with Hatch Studio.


My Logo - A Coincidence of Geometry?

Some people believe there are no coincidences in life.

My logo has been my initials, HH, for many years. The double H is graphically interesting, and I have changed the design at least 3 times during my 30 plus years of designing and building furniture and pool tables. My most recent logo was more discovered than designed. I was doodling with the Mother-of-pearl diamond shaped sights for a pool table I was making, trying to see what shapes I could make. I tried an H. It worked quite nicely with seven diamonds. I liked it so much I decided to inlay the diamonds in the H pattern as my new logo. Upon further inspection of the diamond H, it came as a great surprise to discover that the H was actually made of seven light colored diamonds and two dark ones for a total of nine per H, or eighteen in all. A pool table has a total of eighteen diamond sights!

A custom pool table maker's initials made up of 18 diamonds? Is that a coincidence? The selection of custom pool tables as my life's work is certainly not a coincidence. I have been an avid pool player all my adult life and had wanted to make pool tables from the beginning of my furniture career. With my first commissioned pool table, I was hooked. I knew this was the direction my passion would take me. I feel fortunate to have combined two passions into one career path.