I know this will sound like an offset thumb question, but it isn't. Please do not take the thread in that direction....
I love everything I get from Buddies. All balls from Buddies are scribed, and each came with a Vise IT originally. Tweaking pitches cross-country as I experiment isn't practical, so I have, possibly foolishly, taken 3 balls, removed the IT, and allowed local drillers the chance to tweak my layout. So far, I've worked on SMALL changes in thumb pitches and overall span. In each case, I use a slug instead of the IT until I get this right. In doing so, I found something tonight that doesn't make sense.
Each plugged thumb is clearly visible as having the plug centered on the scribe, since that's the way the ball was originally drilled. It caught my eye tonight that the thumbs in my equipment are no longer positioned on the center of the scribe, they are off center. On the surface, that seems logical since the drillers each indicated that they could change the span distance to fingers by relocating the thumb without changing the fingers themselves, but doesn't that change the way the ball lays in your hand? Maybe the physical centering of the thumb is an illusion and the answer lies in the actual pitch being used, but that doesn't make sense to me.
Perhaps the balls as originally drilled did not have centered thumbs either. In the interest of full disclosure, I take a picture of each ball for my files, and frankly some look like they were and some look like they were not. Hard for me to tell now.
I guess I have 2 questions....
1. Would the center of the actual drilled hole normally fall under the center of a scribe line?
2. Can you physically change span distance by moving the thumb and not plugging the finger?
Thanks in advance.....
