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Equipment Boards => Faball => Topic started by: Candlelite300 on September 18, 2012, 10:56:16 PM
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I came across a faball green hammer in the pro shop today. And I was wondering if anybody had any information on it. Thanks
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4690300504300&set=a.4690308864509.2187576.1497616411&type=3
Here's the pictures
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4690308264494&set=a.4690308864509.2187576.1497616411&type=3
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http://www.bowlingballvault.com/companies/12-hammer/1035-jack-hammer
Was this what you're talking about?
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No this one is solid green. Never seen one like this ever.
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I've seen a few Blue hammers that got greener and greener as they aged, maybe you found one of these?
drillbit
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No but if i get a chance ill put a picture up.
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Sweet interested to see because the vault didnt have anything on a "green" hammer. Maybe it was an international release?
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I recall Wayne Webb throwing some green equipment in his hey day.
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Pics or it didn't happen! :)
Was it drilled or NIB? Was it after the Ebonite buyout? If it had the Faball logo (and it will actually say Faball), it's probably a Blue Hammer that just changed color over time. The pigment in them caused that.
Or it's mold from it sitting in a box since the early 90's. :)
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I remember seeing a thread pop up once somewhere about a Green Hammer and many of us thought it was a discolored Blue, but when we saw the pics it looked to be something different all-together. But that's all I remember. Email Jason Wonders at Visionary (VBPadvertising@aol.com) and see if he has any info it.
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Added 2 pictures
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INTERESTING!! :) Is that the letter I just to the right of the Fab script in the logo? What is the serial #? That will tell us the place of manufacture and year.
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I've seen a Black Hammer that faded to a darker version of that. I don't have it anymore, as it use to be in my closet, but it was much, much darker. That's pretty odd.
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Just saw the serial number picture. INTERESTING!!! I do not believe it was a ball that was released to the general public here in the states. Might have been a "test" ball. The numbers are not the same style and sequence, not the same as used on production pieces for release here as far as I know. The appearance of the letter "I" after the Fab script has me confused.
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My guess is that it was a test ball also. I'm going to do a little research and hopefully find some information on it. It is a very interesting ball.
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Before Faball was bought out by the Wonders family, the original owner J.P Fabinich, was making a small amount of bowling balls. These were NOT Hammers, merely called Faballs, after the owners name.
I thought I had heard that the ones he was making were just polyester balls, but anything is possible I suppose, and this ball could be from that "pre-hammer" era.
Definitely something worth checking into.
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I had a very similar ball to thjis but it was black.
After I emailed Jason at Visionary he informed me that John Fabinich originally put the Hammer core in PLASTIC balls before he turned to urethane. The black ball I had was one of those plastic balls with the original Hammer core inside.
I suspect you have something similar here.