I decided to bite the bullet and get a new bowling ball last night. I needed something that I could still turn despite heavy oil conditions, which I've been seeing a lot lately. What I ended up getting is a super hooking ball, the Brunswick Fury.
Rob drilled it for me last night. I threw a bunch of shots on his lanes but they hadn't been oiled since Friday so it was quite difficult to get the ball to the right side. It definitely hooks. I may need to have it polished a little to get it down the lane more, but I'll wait to see how it reacts first.
One new thing I did have done was to get a switch grip put in for the thumb. Basically it's a 2 part thumb hole. There's an outer sleeve and an inner component that slides in and locks at the bottom. It allows you to have one custom thumb fitting that is perfect and move it to a different ball. Or you could have several sized ones and allows you to swap out when you need to adjust (say if your thumb is swollen due to the heat or something).
I was planning on having him put one in my Columbia Ti Messenger ball as well since it needed to have the thumb hole fixed anyhow. Unfortunately when Rob drilled in he hit the ceramic core of that ball and just about ruined his $200 drill bit. You can't drill into ceramic so I'm stuck. He's plugging it and will re-drill it for a normal thumb plug. Oh well... I probably won't have that ball for tomorrow.
4 comments:
Heh heh... thumb hole.
You're sick
Thank you so much for choosing bowlingball.com to purchase your Fury.
Did you like it once you got it into the oil? It definitely should have reacted much nicer for you at that point.
We are big fans of Turbo's 2-n-1 Switch Grip. Are you still using it?
Actually, I ran into similar problems I had with my previous ball in that it seems to get clogged with oil that just kills the reaction. Can you recommend a good cleaner that would keep it hooking? Most of the last half of the season I went back to my Columbia Ti Messenger because it never has had this problem.
Oh, and yes, still have the switch grip in the Fury, need to go get another one slightly smaller.
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