First adventure with a new pro shop.  I decided to get 2 rocketships drilled up to use without my thumb, so we put a modified version (without the thumb) of my favorite 2 layouts in them...but when I tested them before we did the weight holes the location of the flare patterns was different.  My main question will be: where should I put the weight hole for ball #2?  I'm not in a league for another month or so, so Larry (the PSO) decided to hold off on drilling the weight holes so he could put some thought into getting it right.  Bonus question: what makes two balls thrown by the same person track differently?

Ball #1 flares normal-ish for me (I've never drilled a ball with no thumb hole before), more or less up and down to the left of the finger holes, slightly slanted toward where a thumb hole would be.  No problem, pretty much what I expected.  However, the other ball is a little bit of a pickle.  Ball #2 is drilled 90* x 3.75 x 95*.  When looking at the grip side of the ball, instead of the flare pattern going top left-> bottom right, it goes bottom left-> top right, and flares right over the middle finger.  Will I just have to live with flaring over my grip or is there a way to place a weight hole that both brings the ball legal and pulls the track away from my grip?

For me, as I posted in the Black Ops pin down and pin up thread, I drill 2 of every ball, one with the pin above the fingers, cg in the palm, no extra hole, and another with the pin below the fingers, cg kicked out and down into the thumb quadrant, and an extra hole 6 inches from the pin through the cg in the thumb quadrant.

I track high to start and with the pin up ball I almost track over the fingers and thumb, and many times I will thump over one or both sets of holes with a pin under drill. By adding the 6 inch extra hole in the thumb quadrant, I kill a few birds with one stone...by adding the extra hole in the thumb quadrant, I am removing excess weight from the thumb when I kicked the cg into the thumb quadrant, I am removing extra weight from the left side of my ball (left handed) to make the ball static legal from side to side, and finally, adding the bowtie in this quadrant also lowers the bowtie off of my fingers and thumb.

For me, balls with pin under and the cg kicked with an extra hole will stand up quicker  than a pin up ball with no extra hole.

Hope all that blabber made sense.