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Equipment Boards => Faball => Topic started by: abcarr on April 22, 2014, 11:48:38 AM
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Was recently given a Black Faball Hammer and I'm wondering if it's worth investing any money into it. The coverstock's not too bad (I've seen worse!!) but would definitely need to be resurfaced and the layout is all around too small; finger/thumb holes are too small and the spacing is too small, so I can't even throw it to see what it'll do or how it will react. So with that, I'm probably looking at spending around $75-90 ($25 for resurfacing and another $50-60 to have it plugged & redrilled with inserts & thumb slug) before I even know what it's gonna do. Personally I don't think it's worth putting that kind of money into a ball that's 25-30 years old, but I don't really know anything about the Faball Hammers, other than in their day they seemed to be great balls. And I haven't been able to find much online about how well they fare on todays lane conditions, which might be saying a lot..... At best I'm guessing it would be a good/okay ball for dry lanes, but I don't that for sure either.
Thanks!
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It's a simple 2 piece ball..
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Might be able to get the resurface for free with the plug/redrill.
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For the large majority of people, an original black hammer is going to be little more than a spare ball.
I love my old Hammers, and I will probably always try to keep some around, but I am VERY old school and sentimental. Some of my best performances ever were using them.
For the majority of modern players though, they just aren't strong enough, and don't give them the look they are familiar with.
On TRULY dry lanes, they will still start early, but the cover stock just wasn't built with today's oils in mind, and it doesn't handle them well.
They were always a very "rolly" type reaction for me, picking up a good roll without hooking too much. This was conducive to playing the track area back in the day.
To see what I mean, go to youtube and watch some videos of Del Ballard from the late 1980's/early 1990's. He threw lots of old Hammer stuff back then, and you can see the nature of the ball on the condition it was intended to be used on.