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onlybowling

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Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« on: February 07, 2007, 01:53:59 AM »
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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DanH78

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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2007, 10:01:41 AM »
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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DanH78

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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 10:32:23 AM »
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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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Bigmike

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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 11:08:57 AM »
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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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2007, 12:20:59 PM »
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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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qstick777

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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2007, 02:31:03 PM »
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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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2007, 03:09:44 PM »
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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Re: Ebonite - Will the past repeat itself ?
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2007, 01:18:11 AM »
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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