I'm not a Storm ball fan either, but I've been using their Step 1,2,& 3 polishes for a long time, and the results I get from them are totally satisfactory and seem to be just as advertised. The Step 2 polish in particular seems to be a little higher viscosity than may really be necessary, and needs to be used with a lot of water; it seems to me anyway.
I really like all of the Neotac products and am very satisfied with all of them. I've never gotten a bad result on any ball from any manufacturer with any of these products.
I haven't been using Black Magic for very long, and I don't really need it that much anyway. My initial results were very good, but I don't have long term experience with it, and some of the comments on this board recently have made me a little cautious about it.
Outside of the Neotac stuff, my personal favorites in terms of good results have always been the Ebonite line. I use a lot of the Powerhouse Quicksand, and the even older stuff called simply "2000." It was part of step by step line they once had that included 900, 3000, and 5000. There were six in the line--I'm not sure what the others were--I believe there was a 600 as well. I stocked up on some of these when they were discontinued. (I try to remember to shake them all up occasionally, since I'm not going through them very fast.) Some bowling supply house was getting rid of the Ebonite numerical line not too long ago and sent me a flyer in the mail with outrageously low prices like $2.00 for an 8 or 10 oz. bottle. I spent about $20 and now I have a basement full of polish.
Storm hiked up their prices to distributors by a very large margin not too long ago. I don't know what was behind that--the stuff itself seems the same.
I tried some Track Magic Clean 'N' Polish awhile ago. It advertises a 5000 finish, and it is indeed shinier than anything else I've used. (Storm's Diamond Gloss advertised 5000 also, but I never tried that and it's defunct now.) The Clean 'N' Polish makes a marginally higher shine than Storm's Xtra Shine, which advertises 3500. Applying Black Magic on top of Clean 'N' Polish actually dulls the ball a bit! I have only once needed to use the ball with the Clean 'N' Polish on it and the results were what I expected and were satisfactory, but once isn't enough to make any kind of worthwhile evaluation of the product.
Shiv
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