I was given the task of plugging and redrilling a ball for a friend of mine.  He's right handed, throws around 19mph and has "stroker" revs... I would say around 200-225 rpms.  Real high track...very close to fingers and thumb... and a PAP of 5 1/4" over and 1" up.  Plays almost exclusively down the boards... anywhere from 5 in as deep as 12.  This covers 90% of all the conditions he sees.  All his equipment is drilled stacked leverage.  He's looking for a different reaction.  The ball I'm redrilling is a violet 3-d solid.  Since the only condition he "struggles" with is the oilier shots, I want to try and cover this condition.  What would you do?

I'm thinking leverage pin located on a line from fingers to PAP with "hot" mass bias out near the VAL and a weight hole on or past the VAL.  I would like to put the pin lower, but worry about flaring over the fingers and/or clipping the thumb hole.  Since I'm plugging and resurfacing the ball, I'm thinking about 800 grit wet sand surface.

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-Strapper Squared

PSU Football 05

Strapper,

If you try that drilling (and that was the one that crossed my mind as I was reading your post, believe it or not), don't forget that a weight hole in the thumb positive quadrant, usually 6 3/4" from grip center will usually raise the bowtie from its normal position. That will help IF this guy really has a 5 1/4" PAP. BUT if his track seems very high, then it's not likely to be 5 1/4" which is not very high. Very high to my mind is 5 3/4 - 6".

In any case, I'd check his other balls. See where the track is on his leverage drilled balls. Don't forget that a leverage drilled ball will often seem to have a track much further than if he threw a no-flare ball on heavy oil, like when you're trying to locate a track to begin with.