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alzgarvin

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scorchin clipping the fingers..help !
« on: February 22, 2006, 01:44:12 PM »
There may be no cure but I have a fellow league bowler who came to me with his newly drilled Scorchin. It is clipping the fingers and or the thumb...Here is the set up. Pin 3/4 inch below and right of ring at 5 oclock. CG is stacked below ( 2 inch pin) with CG just below center of grip and 1 3/4 " right (positive) with no weight hole.  This guy is a righty with very low rev rate and slow speed. He throws the ball great and gets good reaction and hit but the balls initial track appears to hit both middle finger edge and thumb hole on left of thumb. I don't know for sure but this thing may be starting lower and reverse flaring towards hole or holes.  I informed him that the guy drilled him wrong as the layout is 1E and this clearly warns of this. But he loves the look but hates the sound. I told him I would jump on this board and beg for a solution with a well placed weight hole. The flare is not very wide as much as I thought I would see, so wondering if starts to flare down and then rises back to finger and thumb.  Ball does not roll out and actually arcs nice and then finishes quite well for his lack of rev.....also the ball didn't seem to thump until game 3 or only when he removed his Master Power Paw. I suggested getting a little more side roll but he doesn't want to change style.  He also has a Columbia Wicked drilled almost exact that does not hit holes.  Sorry so long winded but wanted to give full details on first post.   Thanks, Al

 

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Re: scorchin clipping the fingers..help !
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2006, 08:44:56 AM »
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ALZ
exactly where did tod mention using ruff buff on the ball.
i must have missed that in the noval he wrote.


Tod did not suggest this, but working with the ball owner "Stan", he was having trouble as the lanes broke down, not having the confidence or maybe the ability to pick up ball speed or swing it more. So we lightly upped the surface to help his transition.  Well last night he struggled score wise, but I liked what I saw in the ball. I used rough buff on 4 sides extremely light with the pressure on both the polish application and the clean towel buff. (no heat generated)  This gave the ball more of a look like mine now after 21 games as far as surface. His ball only had 6 games prior to buff.  Some of the ball still had the OOB milky look in grip area and where the ball saw no oil, even after I polished, so I didn't change the surface much at all. Almost like hand application but I was too lazy.

The ball was a tad cleaner early (Believe me this is a clean ball through the heads even in the OOB 600 finish), and had a better finish at the pins. Just a bit more flip on the end. He seemed to leave more ringing tens and didn't seem to be able to adjust. He then proceeded to miss 6 of 8 tens. Not really the balls fault. Finger clipping seemed cured as he was killing the ball to avoid over hook before. What I did like was that when he pulled the ball into the oil, the ball still finshed with authority,even with the slight polish. This is a great ball and we may still have to punch a weight hole and will keep you updated.....thanks all, Al