I own a proshop in Texas and have drilled many of
Ebonite's "One" bowling balls.  A few of my customers
have come back to say that they were dissatisfied with
the ball reaction.  By chance, I placed one of the balls
on a Haas resurface machine for one minute using the
diamond wheels. To my astonishment, the ball had shiny
areas all over it--indicating flat spots.  I resurfaced
another customer's "one" and found that it also had flat
spots all over it.  I resurfaced four other "one" balls
that I had in inventory (1-16lb, 2-15lb, 1-14lb; all four
were as out-of-round as they could possibly be.
Next, I tried my experiement on four "Big One" balls that
were in inventory; all four of them were in the same
out-of-round condition.  This sort of poor quality from
Ebonite is shocking!!

As for the customers whose balls I resurfaced, they love
the new reaction.

If you own an Ebonite "One" or "Big One" and are unhappy
with it, please don't give up on it.  Take it to a shop
that has a resurfacing machine that can restore it to
a proper round condition.

Ebonite:  Please improve your poor quality!

BJ300,
Maybe Ebonite has figured out a way to incorporate golf ball technology into bowling balls. Are the flat spots hexagonal? Are there about 336 of them? Have your customers noticed a difference in shot trajectory?

CK

Is anyone sure that 1 minute is long enough for the Haas machine to thoroughly cover the whole surface of the ball? If not, that may explain some of this phenomenon. This has been my suspicion all along.

CK

You obviously haven't understood what you have read:

1. The entire ball is touched by the Haus Machine in the
   one minute.  
2. This same method has been tried on other manufacturers
   and their balls don't reveal the same problem.
3. The problem has been seen in two other states and
   corroborated on this same thread.

Believe whomever you please.  

And,yes,my proshop is still in business and thriving.

Saw,

The problem here is that if the ball has low areas--I'll
call them that for the sake of this discussion, and, no,
you would not be able to feel them--then the ball does
not have complete contact with the lane.  For high rev
players looking for distance, but with enough hand to
force the ball to make the corner, these low areas might
not bother them.  However, for players with less hand,
they need all of the "foot print" that they can possibly
get.

The purpose of my post was to encourage bowlers to
resurface their ball if they weren't pleased with it. I
have stated in several responses that the "One" is a
good ball.

Also, I'm not seeing this same problem with other companies.