I punched up a ball intended to have a low flare potential.

Finally threw it last night and got probably be 2" of flare, tops.  If I really hit up on it, maybe 3". Rolled "decent" after 3 league games on the broken down THS. But I wanna know when is the right time for this ball.

...I've never really had an intended drilling, or ball with the intention of "low flare."

Question:  In your past experiences, when has low flare been the ball of choice for you, when you have scored well with it.

(Most of my stuff flares a good 5-7+ inches)

Thanks!

Low Flare balls are just that low flare balls; they have no specific purpose except that of the ball itself. Remember that cover/surface is most of the ball reaction.

From what I have used and from what I have seen, Low flare non-shiny solids can be control balls. The operative word is "Can". More of the ball reaction depends on the coverstock and its surface than on the core and the drilling.

I have seen polished low-flare pearls be as flippy as any large flare polished pearl. The low flare doesn't make it controllable. The low flare just reduces the overall hook and tends to add length before the ball hooks. A low flare ball can be just as uncontrollably flippy as a large flare. The only difference may be the amount of backend, NOT the sharpness or flippiness of that backend.

A friend's IQ Tour Solid, a notoriously controllable ball, is one of his strongest backending balls and he is speed dominant.

So for the majority of cases a low flare ball's purpose is to hook less than a large flare ball, all other factors being equal. Once you factor in what the coverstock is designed to do TOGETHER WITH the core, then and only then can you decide on the controllability factor of the entire as-drilled ball.

Charlest's answer is also correct of course.

But reading what Charlest posted, a question arose in my mind; Why would you drill a ball for low flare if you had no idea where you might use it? Just sayin... 

If you drill a normal flaring ball with a 2" or a 5.5" pin-PAP, I would hope you had some very specific reason for using a drilling at the far ends of a bell curve.

I’ve often wondered if you drilled up a strong ball with a control layout would it even be beneficial ??

Quote from: charlest on February 23, 2018, 03:21:27 PM

Quote from: milorafferty on February 23, 2018, 01:55:42 PM

Charlest's answer is also correct of course.

But reading what Charlest posted, a question arose in my mind; Why would you drill a ball for low flare if you had no idea where you might use it? Just sayin... 

If you drill a normal flaring ball with a 2" or a 5.5" pin-PAP, I would hope you had some very specific reason for using a drilling at the far ends of a bell curve.

Agreed, that's why the question came up for me. Was it just trying something different, a suggestion or ??

I like having a low flaring ball available, but I know where/when I'm going to use it.

Since I'm rev dominant and see a lot of very light oil, I tend to specialize in low RG differential/low flaring cores., with a few normal flaring balls usually working with weaker coverstocks.  So I feel comfortable saying they are low flaring balls like the IQ Tour pearls and the Ebonite Nitro that can be quite flippy, while low flaring balls like the Visionary Centaur, AMF Orbit Extreme, Lord Field Exodus Pearl and the Lane Masters Wasp are almost impossible to make flippy.

I punched a 900 global break down, haven't really used it.  I figured it would be similar to the iq tour solid in terms of it's place in the bag. Just wanted to try it for $85.  I just haven't had this low flare of a ball in quite some time. 

Yes it goes long, and for the most part doesn't over react, I'd assume it's close to the hot cell, minus the flare part! Lol

A logical use to me for a low flare drilling would be for drying conditions with some oil left on the lane.  The oil left in your track could give you some added length.  This added length benefit might outweigh the effect of the little bit of carry down you might get.  You could keep your line farther out for a few more frames if you don't want to leap left and find the heavier oil line.

Lower flare works when you need a less drastic change in direction, but you have to know when to ball up. I've had several balls with 2inch pins from pap, and while they were great going up the lane, getting in and wheeling on it wasn't the best plan of attack.