Have just been pretty much given a brand new ebonite tombstone, but not sure really what to have done with it! I have medium to high revs and medium ball speed, and my current range of equipment is as follows:
Brunswick Purple Monster (drilled early hook)
Brunswick eliminator (pin above fingers for length)
Storm El Nino 2000 (Drilled pin to right of fingers, quite aggressive)
Track Stomp Pearl (Drilled pin above fingers, length)

What drilling would people recommend, and am I right that this is a big hooking ball?

ouch! not a glowing recommendation then. Not a good sign. Oh well, any idea why it was such a bad ball? Any help would be appreciated.

One of my teammates still throws one of these.  He's a medium speed, medium rev guy with a pretty high track.  He has a basic label drill on it, and he gets a really smooth arc reaction out of it.  It doesn't give him a lot of room.  Miss outside and it won't recover, miss inside and it sits on the nose.  However, when he gets lined up the carry is typically pretty good.

My guess is that it will likely overlap with your Purple Monster, but if it's free, why not give it a try.

Interesting. As I have had my monster since its launch, would this be a good replacement ball for that, or would it hook less? Am thinking that could be a useful replacement as it is a freebie

I drilled this ball when it was first released.  The ball hooks at your feet and the coverstock is high maintenance.  The Tombstone works well on a flood, but you will have to bag this ball on other lane conditions.

I would VERY STRONGLY recommend using Doc's elixir before you use the ball. From what I understand it was one of Ebonite 1st attempts at reactive/particle (?) and that the micro pores in that ball are relatively big, which is why it dies out soon.

I, of course, could be wrong.
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DARK BEER IT IS THEN!

Edited on 2/21/2004 0:54 AM