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Equipment Boards => Hammer => Topic started by: Poxy Boggard on February 26, 2007, 08:16:06 AM
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Got a new black widow last week. The cover looks nothing like the pictures I have seen of this ball. The Spider is almost pink, and there are alot of red and pink swirls on the cover. Is this abnormal? Did I get a blem ball? One of the guys on my team has one as well and it is almost pure black minus the label which is orange/red not pink. I'll post a picture when I get home, but was just curious to see what you all thought.
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IT is just a variant on the colors from the pouring process. We had one come into the shop froma warehouse in Pennsylvania that was 3/4 red and had a very phazed swirl pattern. Ball worked the same, just a different color.
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I think that around Christmas time they added more red to the pour. I noticed that any Black Widow from around summer to December was almost all black, maybe a few red swirls, but anything since christmas is almost 50/50 red to black.
If you polish it, though, it still looks completely black going down the lane.
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Mine has a pinkish Widow, and some red swirls in it. I saw one this weekend with a TON of red/pink in it, and it looked sick! Very cool looking ball.
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I got mine very early in the release, and it is almost completely black. They had to have changed something, because all the new ones I see have a ton more red in them.
Don
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"On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem."
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Thanks for the input! I just wanted to make sure that I didn't get a factory blem. The ball is pretty wicked and I like what I have seen of it so far. Makes a really hard move to the pocket. I'll post a picture when I get home tonight.
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My one Widow has about 1/3 red and its in a funky swirl around the ball, looks pretty neat and its not bad reaction wise, great ball, my other one has a little bit of dark red swirl in it.
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Just another aspiring junior bowler who hasn't hit full stride yet.
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I've got a BW as well and I can barely tell that the ball has any red in it at all. it looks completely black even holding it directly in front of me. i don't really understand why they bothered with adding the red anyways... if it looks black then why bother with the red?
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I've got a BW as well and I can barely tell that the ball has any red in it at all. it looks completely black even holding it directly in front of me. i don't really understand why they bothered with adding the red anyways... if it looks black then why bother with the red?
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I agree! The BW I used to have was almost all black. There was a small hint of Red. I like the all black bowling balls like the No Mercy and BW.
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