...and took it to league. This despite some warnings I'd gotten here against it.
The ball was a Dyno-Thane Threshold. I picked this ball because it was an assym and I happened to steal it for about $45 on eBay last week even though it had great specs (4-inch pin, 2.0 top) and was NIB.
The drilling makes the pin go high above the fingers, about 1 inch from the VAL. MB ends up right above the thumb.
I left the ball in box finish (1000 matte) just to get a baseline, and tested it against three balls of known reaction to see what I had.
What I had was a friggin' monster. Easy length even with this very aggressive ball, surface prep and condition. Our house is medium-dry on most nights but tonight was more medium at the start than usual. I could play angles with this ball that I couldn't play with anything else in my bag, especially deep.
One of the most interesting aspects to this drilling was the look of the ball as it went through the pins. If there's a thing as rolling "too heavy," this ball was dancing on the borderline of it. No deflection that I could see through the pins, which made it nice for lighter leaves but really made me nervous on higher hits.
The ball has good length and is not unpredictable downlane. I was expecting a skid/flip monster from some of the descriptions here but that's not what I got. Maybe I would if the surface was tuned differently. As it was, I got a very strong ball that did most of its hooking at the end of the mids, made more of an arc/drive rather than a flip, and just kept going. Now I'm going to have to rethink my eight-ball tournament arsenal.
Jess
