Author Topic: Question about TOTAL INFERNO engraving? (Read 1794 times)

DukeHarding · « **on:** March 07, 2007, 06:45:30 AM »

Looking at a TOTAL INFERNO...
Seems all the engraving on the ball, is not sunk down into the surface, but is just flat/flush with the surface.
If I run my fingernail across the ball, it doesn't catch on the engraving at all....does Brunswick use a different method to engrave the logos, etc. on the ball?
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BowlerKidR · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2007, 04:26:31 PM »

Every single ball manufactured in a brunswick plant uses a Lazer system to engrave and fill the lettering on their bowling balls. This includes Brunswick, MoRich, Older Lane #1, Revolutions, Tude's, etc. Every other company uses a computerized engraving machine. If you youtube bowling theres that video clip from the Ebonite plant. They showed the No Mercy logo being put onto a No Mercy. Actually didnt look like an engraving, but more like a hot branding iron burned into the ball, and then paint was used to color it in.
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DukeHarding · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2007, 04:30:30 PM »

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Every single ball manufactured in a brunswick plant uses a Lazer system to engrave and fill the lettering on their bowling balls. This includes Brunswick, MoRich, Older Lane #1, Revolutions, Tude's, etc. Every other company uses a computerized engraving machine. If you youtube bowling theres that video clip from the Ebonite plant. They showed the No Mercy logo being put onto a No Mercy. Actually didnt look like an engraving, but more like a hot branding iron burned into the ball, and then paint was used to color it in.
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BrunsBob · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2007, 07:06:52 PM »

Actually, not taking a jab at you BowlerKidR, but all balls in our Brunswick plant are engraved by a computerized engraver and then filled by hand. We do fill ours flush with the surface of the ball, thus the smoothness.

RoB LaW

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BrunsMike · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2007, 10:16:04 PM »

Although not every ball engraving is perfectly smooth though. My Vapor Zone you can feel the engraving, same with my Scorchin Inferno. I know it doesnt effect anything.
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dizzyfugu · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2007, 02:10:17 AM »

Personally, I like the polyester-filled engravings very much because they stay clean and offer an even surface.

Nevertheless, only drawback I found so far is that when I sand such a ball, the coverstock material seems to be softer than the fillings and they protrude from the surface. I had an extreme case on my Sahara which has large graphics in the track area, and the engraving fillings had to be scraped away with a knife to get an even surface because I feared traction loss?
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