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Equipment Boards => Ebonite => Topic started by: onlybowling on February 07, 2007, 01:53:59 AM
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Amid the speculation about what is to become of the 3 brands aquired by Ebonite - I was wondering if history would repeat itself.
I was not bowling when Ebonite bought Hammer, so I don't know how that was handled. What happened to the owners, designers,and production staff? Does Ebonite own the core designs, and cover formulas? - or did Ebonite simply buy the brand name?
There is no doubt that both the original, and new production Hammers are very good. Was there an immeadiate departure from the original Hammer designs after Ebonite bought the company?
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OnlyBowling
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If I remember, Faball was essentially defunct. Ebonite came along and bought the Hammer name from the people that owned Faball. Ebonite bought the names, that's it. The last good core designs out of Faball were the 3-D's, and Mo Pinell owns the rights to those designs.
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What are you gonna do? Beat me with your Jesus stick?
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How did they pull off the High Rev? That was nothing more than a re-release of the original 3D-Offset
Original
http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=169
remake
http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=2578
As you can see completely different core shapes. I remember hearing that Hammer/Ebonite tried to buy the 3-D core but Mo wouldn't sell it. I believe the Hi-rev was a modified Blade core, don't quote me on that part though.
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What are you gonna do? Beat me with your Jesus stick?
Edited on 2/7/2007 11:31 AM
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The Hi Rev looks like a version of the Reaper core. The Reaper was one of the last releases before Hammer pulled the plug for good.
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If I remember, Faball was essentially defunct. Ebonite came along and bought the Hammer name from the people that owned Faball. Ebonite bought the names, that's it. The last good core designs out of Faball were the 3-D's, and Mo Pinell owns the rights to those designs.
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I must think that Columbia was so deep in debt that it could not find any other way to deal with those debts. To buy a company that would have been forced to close its' doors is different from buying a name only. I am thinking that in addition to Columbia's debts, Ebonite will gain the rights to: capital equipment, research, design and other, unknown by me, intellectual properties.
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OnlyBowling
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I was just reading Ebonite's corporate page.
Came across this and found it somewhat amusing:
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MISSION
Our mission is simple
To build the world's best bowling company.
Our goal is not to be the biggest.
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Hi rev had the same core from the Vicious series. NOT the blades.
Hi Rev: http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=2578
Vicious: http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=1463
Blade: http://www.bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=2343
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-DJ Marshall
...The Twelve In a Row Pro Shop
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Would be great to have so many core and cover combos.. I wonder if in the future, we could order our own particular set-up. There was a shoe company doing this..
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