I never recommend sanding a ball higher than 1000 before the Sauce. Unless you are bowling on complete fry and choppy dirt wood...LOL!!

Anyways...I have done several Cell's at Nationals and they do not work well over 1000. They do not pick up early enough and get squirty. They are just too smooth.

You will get earlier reactions with each lower grit you use before applying the Sauce...

It is the most versatile polish on the market. Hands down.

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. . . hmmm
. . . I just resurfaced 5 balls (Pink Rasp, XXL, XXXL, Cherry C/2, Pearl Viper)
. . . from 360 to 4000 grit Abralon and hit them with the sauce
. . . I'm going to the lanes and see
. . . how they perform on brokern down lanes
. . . I was thinking at 400-450 revs at 16.5 mph
. . . 4000 grit with the sauce would be perfect
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Underlying grit matters for ALL polishes.  As far as the Secret Sauce, I'll agree with what the creator said.  I've tried it on a couple pieces over a 2000 Abralon and it turned the balls into darts.  I've had the best luck applying it over nothing higher than 600.

Don
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there's no secret in the sauce...

I made some experiments and analysis and know what the stuff is and what it does... it po0lishes... simple as can be.

it is a water suspension of a very fine abrassive and polishes almost anything... I did it on my Mum's car's bumper that was scratched and the part looks like new!
plastic
I did it on my kitchen knife which had scratches (very fine ones) and it looks like knew
metal
I did it on my bowling ball... well that is the purpose of the sauce isn't it.

to answer the initial question:

the grit simply says how big the grinding parts on your paper/abralon/mirlon is.
the bigger the rougher the surface
the polish now just takes away something more and smoothens out this roughness.
so a 600+polish will react 4 sure different than a 2000+ polish

the polish can not make the surface 100% planar but it will make a difference.

see it that way:

you have after sanding the ball "valleys and mountains" on your ball.
the contact area of the ball in the oil has increased as it has a higher surface and more absorbtion
but it also has lost contact area with the lane.
result: the ball will hook in the oil but not take of on the backend
now when you polish that ball you take off the tip of your mountains and make them smooth... the surface slightly decreases while the contact area with the lane increases (the tips of your mountains get wider... broader etc.)
so what you do in fact is you shift the ball's motion towards the backend.
But the overall result is different than a ball with a higher grit etc.

this is how I see it
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Edited on 5/21/2008 12:06 PM