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myty299

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faball layout idea
« on: April 08, 2011, 12:17:36 AM »
I am in love with faball hammers, i have a black, a red pearl, and hopefully a red hammer on the way. i have drilled them all different and loved the reactions. black hammer faball logo/pin cg right under the ring finger and the fingers 3ins deep and its smooth and picks up early and the red pearl logo about 45 degrees from the center of grip towards the thumb on the right side giving me 1oz side and 1 3/4oz thumb with a hole 3 1/2ins from the center of grip through the logo this ball goes longer by nature needs more friction by has a much sharper angle than the black hammer. i was wondering if any of you guys had ideas for layouts or stuff that has worked. i am thinking of using the logo as my thumb hole and have my fingers towards the hammer logo. ideas for faball hammers and maybe a yellow dot? 

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dizzyfugu

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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2011, 05:17:52 AM »
With these low differential cores, you IMHO rather get ball movement trough surface prep than through drilling tricks. You will also basically have 0-2" pin distances, what also limits drilling option. Personally, I'd drill the ball label, with the (hardly visible) pin at 45°, and focus on the surface to tune the ball's utility.


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Cobalt Bomb

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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2011, 05:45:17 AM »
You might want to try Mo Pinel's Plastic ball layout. It also works for pin-in symmetrical balls. He details the instructions on morichbowling.com.


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myty299

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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2011, 06:09:32 AM »
 I will probably do mo's plastic ball on the yellow dot I have. I have a red hammer that is pin/cg 45 degrees out and it is amazing. But on my other two hammers I was trying between the old way to layout these balls and use some of mo's ideas for layouts

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dougb

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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 09:05:34 PM »
From what I heard pin axis drills were popular on these balls back in the day also, but I agree on the label.
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thor849

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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 07:30:37 AM »
You could use an old 9" leverage layout and watch it flare all over the place.  Drilled a Blue solid this way a year or so ago and it hooked a ton.  CG/ Label 3 3/8 from your axis, weight hole 9" right of grip center.


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Re: faball layout idea
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 07:37:28 AM »
More popular was "axis leverage" where a pin out ball was used; the cg was placed on the axis, usually with a balance hole through it, and the pin placed at or toward the leverage point.
 



dougb wrote on 4/20/2011 9:05 PM:From what I heard pin axis drills were popular on these balls back in the day also, but I agree on the label.


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