I feel this is a good question for the ball reps on here. I have an old pearl beast that I have had for about eight years and it has about a 1000 games on it. I have resurfaced it dozens of times, and about half the labels and serial numbers are left. It still rolls true and hits good, but with that much of the surface gone can it affect its carry, and things like that? I know that each time you resurface a ball it gets smaller, even if it is just a 1/100th or a 1/1000th of an inch.
 I'm sure that somewhere right now there is someone bowling a with a ball that has no labels on it what so ever and striking every frame and saying who needs a new ball. Just wanted to get your opinions on this subject.

Thanks

I have resurfaced and/or baked my Speed Zone many times.
I just replaced it with a brand new one - but only because a machine broke out the bridge.
I think the ball still had lots of games left - although I'm sure it has well over 1000 games on it.
The ABC does have a minimum size limit - I wonder how that can be checked short of checking the ball at ABC Nationals?
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Golf was invented by the same people who think music comes out of bagpipes.

There are balls that are terrible after one re-surfacing and then there are yours. Tons of variables - so, the only arbiter of how many is the user in how happy he/she is with the ball after the job is done. Really.

Of course, that's besides the new rules that state the balls name and serial number MUST be plainly visible and th eminimum size regulation.

the way to get the most mileage out of a bowling ball is to lightly resurface it only as much as needed---before it gets a heavy track. you should be able to resurface a ball appx. 25 times in this manner before the ball is actually too small to use.