For the longest time it was believed that AMF would be introducing the first Epoxy bowling ball. Then it was announced the Columbia would be using the technology and not long after was the EPX T1 introduced. I've never used one and have never seen one, but reading feedback on here it seems to be mostly negative.
Columbia had just purchased the licensing of the AMF brand to design and manufactur AMF bowling balls. Columbia had the perfect opportunity to build up thier new brand while using it as a guinea pig for the new technology. They could have revived the AMF name as far as bowling balls go, which would have been great for Columbia. And if the ball is a dud, which it seems like it might be, then the Columbia 300 name is not harmed.
Columbia 300 got greedy and stole the technology from AMF. They now look like fools. I'm sure the Columbia 300 customer service staff is reeling from the mistakes they made. What are they going to do with all the people reporting cracked bowling balls after 10 games? Replace the ball with another EPX T1? That's nice, if this one doesn't crack they've got a new spare ball. They'll either learn from the mistakes made with the EPX T1 and come out with good epoxy balls for Col300 and Track and eventually AMF, or epoxy will go the way of Acryllium.
I think they'll be able to fix epoxy and it'll get used in future releases. As a user of AMF bowling equipment I just wanted to thank them for hijacking the technology and for not using AMF as your test subject, but only releasing proven, high-quality bowling balls with the AMF logo. I am very happy with my Max Velocity, Velocity, and VP2 and look forward to getting my Terminal Velocity. And I'm sure the epoxy coverstock will be good by the time it comes to AMF.
