For Christmas, my parents bought my older brother a TRoad pearl (I picked it out).  We drilled it last week.  My brother is one of those "This is what I want, drill it", whereas I am more into the technical stuff.  So, based on what he said, I worked with our driller and came up with a layout of 4.5 x 3.5, pin above the ring finger, small x-hole on the axis.  My brother is a fairly high rev guy with good speed.  He can't control the ball.  I'm taking the ball in Sunday and plan to take the surface to 4000 then add a coat of polish.  

Any other options besides plug/redrill?  

X-hole on the PAP is neutral, right?
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I took mine to 1000 abralon, then polished with renew-it, and added 2 coats of control-it.  Thats worked a lot better, got the skid/snap out of the ball and more of a hard arc off the break point.  

I was worried that 1000 would be too much surface and the ball would burn up, but with the extra polish makes it work.  

I tried 2000 abralon with polish and 2000 no polish, it was still skid/snap.  4000 made it go even longer and snap more.  

Mine was drilled 4.25 pin, under fingers, cg 3.5, above midline, no hole.

The reaction is good, but I will try a x-hole on the pap and drill it to neg, and go back to adjusting the cover with abralon if needed.  

Hope that helped.

I know that polish makes for a sharper backend.  Part of the problem is that as soon as it sniffs a dry board it makes a left turn, so I was hoping that taking the ball from 1500 + polish (OOB) to 4000 + polish it cause the backend reaction to happen later.  

What about straight 4000, no polish?
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Edited on 1/11/2008 12:01 PM

I have mine at 4000 Abralon, no polish.  The breakpoint is very angular, but controllable.  Mine is drilled pin over middle finger, 5-1/2" from PAP with the CG at 30 degrees, no weighthole.  I would give 4000 Abralon, no polish a try first.
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