With its stock surface (light grey SB pad, approx 800 grit US/CAMI. Visionary calls it 1000 grit US/CAMI), the BG Centaur, for the avg revs, avg ball speed bowler, will handle light to medium-light to just under medium oil.
The Dry/R covers the driest and lightest oil that a resin ball can handle.
To make the BGC equivalent to the Dry/R, you'd have to sand it to P4000 grit FEPA, and then add polish. To separate the two, you can take the BGC to P2000 grit FEPA and leave it dull. Or take it finer for a little more length, say P4000 grit and leave it dull/matte. Or add light polish to the stock surface or polish over a P2000 grit surface. I have used all those surfaces and the BGC reacts to those slight changes.
If you have higher ball speed, you might want to stick to the rougher surfaces and you may not see each difference in grit level. If you have medium to lower ball speed, you'll more easily see all the differences.
The BGC has extremely little flare (RG Diff ~ .015", less than a pancake core) compared to the Dry/R and is a solid, vs the Dry/R's pearl. The BGC is also a control ball, without a doubt. It has the most urethane like reaction I have seen outside of the Lane#1 Bullet (very similar to the Dry/R).
"None are so blind as those who will not see."
Edited by charlest on 6/21/2011 at 6:19 AM
