Any one tried this ? I Was thinking about it im not that smart on the bowling cover changes but im thinking this would not hook as much and go a lil longer down the lane ? Any comments please post.

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Polishing the Thing Lives is a great idea if you find the ball is making its move too early, or burning up in the midlane.  Polish will give the ball more length and a milder backend, of course.

One of the qualities of the Soaker coverstocks is that they take polish very well.  If you find that polish wasn't such a great idea (after you tried on a few different drier conditions, I'd recommend) you can always remove the polish with little difficulty, or just scuff it up with a scotchbrite pad.

Give it a shot and let us know how you like it!

Tony
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Tony Am I correct in understanding that polish
won't make it react stronger to dry boards?
I was also thinking about getting a Thing Lives
but the house where I normally bowl strips and reoils
everyday so we always clean backends.
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Edited on 1/2/2005 10:02 PM

Since I've polished up my Thing Lives, I'll chime in. I liked the roll of the TL in box surface on tournament patterns, but I felt that it wanted to burn too early on my local house shot. I threw that baby in the Lustre King for a couple of minutes and put a nice gloss on it and now it's a freaking beast. The shine helps push the ball through the heads but the ball picks up in the latter part of the midlane and delivers a hard arching  backend. It gives me the same overall board coverage as the Ultimate Inferno that I played around with, it's just that the movement begins further down the lane. I think that the Lives, even in box, gets better natural length than the UI. In any case, for me, polishing has made the ball come alive to become my first out of the bag on league night. I can use it until the middle of the third game before it begins reading too early. Just my .02.
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I would buy a Thing Retruns and add a little bit of surface to it imo, i had the same question a few mts back and some one gave me a thing returns i had it drilled for pin above ring finger cg in the palm kicked over about 1/2 in. I also have the thing lives its currently box finish but thats gonna be changing to 1000wet sand or im gonna wet sand to 1000 and polish it aswell. Ill have to do some testing on that. With my amount of hand the thing lives is simply too much for me so im gonna have to polish it. But id say for you take a thing Retrun's and add some surface to it and try that out.

Length and hook down the lane, let me see I'll give you a little hint VENDETTA,
 As a seperate response to other in this thread, why would you by a ball designed for medium to heavy oil and polish it to go longer and finish harder.  We have an entire line of balls designed to react differently. A polished Thing Lives could get closer to an AU79s reaction so why not just get the Au79 instead, or if you need more length and flip than an Au79 why not get a Vendetta and if that's too soon why not get a Crisis pearl instead. Unlike the other companies you may be use to we do not launch balls that over lap. Ok I'm off the soap box. But this is not this complicated. Look at the line study it and fill in the gaps. Changing the surfaces etc should be for fine tuning not creating a different creature. Ok so now I'm off the soap box.