Author Topic: Uranium Buzzsaw (Read 15629 times)

admin · « **on:** December 31, 1969, 06:00:00 PM »

The new Uranium Buzzsaw features our new RadioActiveTM cover stock. This new material is clean thru the front, and Atomic on the backend. We also changed our isotope in our patented diamond core, using the densest material allowed by the ABC. The super dense, center heavy, Uranium Buzzsaw diamond core lowers the RG from a 2.53 to a 2.45, while raising the differential from a .028 to the midrange of .043. Combined with our new RadioActiveTM cover stock, this ball glides thru the drier fronts, while sticking to the lane in the oily middles. The Uranium Buzzsaw is the ball that does it all..!!

Color: Metallic Blue
Cover Stock: RadioActiveTM
Core: Super Dense Patented Diamond
Hook Rating: 23
Flare Potential: 5â€
Pin Placement: 12 Oâ€™ clock 1-4â€ out
Construction: 3 - piece
Finish: Highly Polished
Available Weights: 13,14,15, & 16 lb

White_Trash_Ball_Driller · « **Reply #16 on:** April 08, 2004, 12:56:43 PM »

I bet the Hamster has good things to say about this ball today! ;-)

tommylamb · « **Reply #17 on:** April 13, 2004, 09:54:56 AM »

I drilled this ball up a couple of weeks ago. Out of the box it was 14.4, 2.7OZ top weight, 3" Pin. I set the ball up 4.5 x 4.5 which is the stacked set up on the company literature. After drilling, the result was 3/4 oz side weight and 1/4OZ finger weight, no balance hole. I shoot in two centers, both Brunswick Anvil Lane, one is your typical house shot hat section with an 8 board wall of about 60 Units, and about 20 units tapering off to 4 units outside. The other center is a brickyard that the shot varies from day to day so much that it defies description. The condition tends to support scoring by high rev/high speed players from around 20 out to around 8 and back. It is definately tweener hell.
I am a tweener that throws about 16MPH. I have been able to score well on both conditions with this ball. I drilled it and used it right out of the box in both centers last week. This ball is an excellent product. It really gets through trashy or oily heads well. This setup generates a great deal of backend energy and explodes in the pocket. I have been able to play further inside than with my other equipment and have been getting great carry in both centers with this ball. Through the first 6 games at each center I am scoring about 25 pins a game better than with my other equipment. Four stars.

perfectfit · « **Reply #18 on:** May 07, 2004, 05:39:34 PM »

Yes it is an inferno cover but with a Lane #1 weight block.

I posted my first reveiw of this ball after having it for
only a couple weeks.
Now that the fall season is over I thought I would update
that reveiw. I used it for 8 weeks to finish out my league
with the most oil. In 8 weeks I only shot one set under
700 and that was mid 680's. In that time 4 sets were 750
and up. Every week but 1 I started the first game with at
least the front 7. One of the other houses I bowl in had a
lane oiler problem one night and I used it that night for
a mid 750. I also used it for all 9 games at state for a
2034 all events total. The only problem that I'm having is
finding enough oil to use it on.

A_P_K · « **Reply #19 on:** May 23, 2004, 03:13:43 AM »

A little late on the review but it's better than never.

My U-Saw:
16lbs drilled 4x4 for skid snap according the Lane #1's drill sheet. I went with something unusual for a different look on the lanes and achieved it with the Uranium.

The ball does exactly what I had hoped it would after more games of use. I can open up the lanes on any surface when need be, or even when a bigger backend move is neccesary.

I can use the Uranium on just about any condition except heavier or longer patterns and burnt up lanes. It is stronger than I thought it would be, actually covering many more boards than it should. The Uranium goes long on the lane, sometimes making me believe it won't hook, but on ideal conditions the backend fixes that all the time.

This is the hardest hitting but not best carrying Buzzsaw I've thrown. I will leave many tenpins if I don't hit the pocket flush, or some sevens if I come in too light. This is due to probable carrydown present but then again quite a few balls react this way too.

The Uranium in my hands is pretty sensitive to speed mistakes and release mistakes. You got to hit the ball for it to move, but keep the speed correct if you do or it will hook past the head pin. Otherwise it can slide pretty straight and far down the lane before ever hooking a mere board.

I have thrown many lines with the Uranium, my favorite is 25 to 10 because I can keep my speed and revs up and watch the backend flare kill the pocket. On oilier lanes I've played straight up 5, on drier lanes I've played 35 out to 8 with all similar success.

This ball remains in my car at all times even if I don't use it. To me it's a special circumstance ball that could come in handy when I need some length and recovery at the same time.

This is easily the best Buzzsaw I've ever thrown and one of the better, more exciting balls I've used as well.

To sneak this in quickly, between the Inferno and the Uranium I'd take the U-Saw everyday. Even using similar technology these two balls are different as night and day.

I polished my U-Saw with Black Magic too, I hated the idea of a semi early skid snapping pearl ball. It's either one or the other....
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Pin_Krusher IS a serious threat to modern day bowling wood as we know it today.

IceEmQuick · « **Reply #20 on:** July 01, 2004, 10:25:50 AM »

I have had the ball a few months, and now I feel like I can go ahead and review this bowling ball.

Layout:
Nothing fancy here. I'm layed out 1:30, with a weighthole to give me some thumb weight which i believe is at 3/4 ounce, but I don't have the full specs in front of me.

Fresh House shot:
This ball is a beast. I normally can't use it because it rolls early and turns and turns and turns. If I can manage to play inside in the oil, I can stand left foot at 40-45, shoot the 4th arrow, out to 10 or so, and have it recover with a really strong and angular move to the pocket. What impresses me about this ball is the continuation of the hook through the pin deck. When I can get it through the heads, it retains so much energy and hits very well. My carry has been better than average with this ball.

41 Foot Sport Shot (2004 World Champion PBA shot):
It took me some time to decide to use the Uranium on this shot. I was shooting with the SCB, but I found it was rolling to early. Something in my head kept telling me to stay with a particle ball, and so I went to the GoldenNugget, and it did well, but it 2 tended to roll up early and go through the beak, when I did get it to the pocket it was back row city. So I throw the Uranium and I find that the recovery on the back end was insane. It cleared the heads and the mids so well that the move it made in the last 6 foot of the lane was very sharp and pronounced. I never had an issue with carry down at all on this shot over 4 games, and we started on a FRESH shot oiled just 5 minutes before us. If anything I was slowly moving deeper and deeper and the ball never quit. Everyone else was changing balls, but myself and my shot really never disappeared.

Over all I'm super impressed with this ball. For me on a house shot, I have better luck with carry using the XXL or other weak balls. To be honest, I'm glad I waited to review this ball, because I believe that 9/10's of the bowlers out there will never bowl on a sport shot and get to REALLY see what there beloved house shot equipment is capable of on a real shot.

I remember me saying all my equipment looks the same on the house shot, and that's true, however none of them look the same on the sport shot.

10 out of 10 on this ball. If you can pick one up and give it a whirl, I recommend it.

-IEQ

C-G ProShop-Carl · « **Reply #21 on:** July 13, 2004, 03:57:33 PM »

Ball: Pin 4 1/4 from PAP, CG label

Lane Condition: various, wood lanes

Reaction: Good length and strong in backends. Cleared the heads, almost ingored them intirely and on the backends the ball went into a strong roll into the pocket.

Hook: Anything more than mediums would be too much for the Uranium. It saved all of its energy for the backends, which is not a bad thing. If there was alot of head oil and I missed wide it would not recover enough to take the corners out. 7.0

Control: On a typical house shot the oil pattern would get the ball to stay online to pocket pretty well. But on wet/dries or spotty backends it was very over under. 6.5

Hit: Nothing special here. The Uranium was my 3rd dive into Lane 1 equipment, and it was better than the previous 2 were. It carried well on high pocket shots, but not so well on the light hits. 8.0

Readability: Because it is so sensitive to oil it is not a bad ball to tell you where the oil line is. Overall though I prefer balls that react smoothly to read a lane. 6.0

Overall: The best of the 3 Lane 1's I have tried. Good ball for those of you that like the skid/flip reaction. Suprisingly the guys I see using this ball that do the best are the ones that are straight up the back of the ball. Too bad I have gone away from that kind of release. For me, there are better options out there for the reaction it gives.

OVERALL RATING: 7.5
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C-G Pro Shop

jw300 · « **Reply #22 on:** December 31, 2004, 10:11:13 AM »

This is the first Buzzsaw I drilled. Fell in love right away! Well worth the extra few bucks. Check out the full review and some other cool articles at mybowler.com:
http://www.mybowler.com/JW's+Junction/237.aspx

lane1freak · « **Reply #23 on:** February 04, 2005, 10:47:41 PM »

i am right handed and avg. 210
4.5 in. pin with label drilling
wood lanes with 40ft. of oil lots of oil!!!!

i have had my URANIUM BUZZSAW about 3 weeks and was trying to fine out the shot and i have found it. i bowled on a fri. night leauge. i came out the gate with 220 but was to far right, i moved left and throu it 25 to 10 and shot 264 and 297, bad shot and did not get it out and left the 3,6,10.
BUT THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE GREAT BALLS LANE 1!!!!!!!!

billwv68 · « **Reply #24 on:** April 04, 2005, 03:25:20 PM »

15 lb 2.9 top weight 2-3 in pin. drilled for instant roll. very smooth rolling ball but needs good back ends or at least some resemblence to backend.home house i bowl in doesnt really have backends . but when i did it had long roll and just when u thought it was going to miss bang to the pocket. like all lane 1 i bowl with destroys the pocket hard. more controllable than my cherry bomb , but i still like my cherry bombs hit in the pocket better. than again cherry bomb is my favorite ball so i could be a lil prejudice towards it. i really like this ball alot and could open hand and pick up ten pin which i definately cant with the cherry bomb with snappy backends. strongly recommend this ball. first time i tried the instant roll to

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Hussman · « **Reply #25 on:** July 05, 2005, 08:40:25 PM »

15 lb. 3.5 oz top weight, 2-3 inch pin. Ball is drilled stacked leverage with the pin to the right of ring finger in line with the pap. Weight hole directly below pap.

This is my first Lane 1 other than the XXXL, which is a plastic ball. I really like the motion of this ball on the lane. It has a different move than any other equipment that I have owned before, and it responds very well to speed adjustments. I can easily play the ball straighter with a skid/snap style, or swing it out wide, and I am not capable of doing both with a lot of equipment. The ball pretty much flies straight past the heads, revs up really quickly, and saves all of it's energy for a big flip on the backend. Scores so far have been very good with this ball, more than 11 pins above my normal 200 average for the first 10 games. Only time will tell if that increase in scoring will persist, and whether or not it can be credited to the ball. The first few games with this ball I was pulling my hair out because I was having serious issues kicking out the 10 pin on what I thought to be flush pocket hits. The first game out of box I left five 10 pins...all pocket hits. After throwing the ball more I have come to realize that this ball needs to be higher in the pocket than what I am used to. This ball crushes the rack on nearly all high hits, but does not carry light hits like some of my other equipment. It is hard to give an objective evaluation of this ball considering the price tag and hype surrounding Lane 1, but overall I am very pleased so far with this ball. I love the coverstock, the ball is clean on the lanes, has a very consistent reaction, and of course the ball creates great pin action.
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Rabiddog135 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 10, 2005, 08:55:05 PM »

Ball 15.5 pounds Ball after drilling up 3/4 Oz side weight
Pin 2-3 inches 2.73 Oz top weight And 3/8 Oz thumb weight.
I'm about a 180 average bowler 15-17 miles/Hr speed,with medium Rev rate.
I decided on the Lane #1 Pearl Uranium after talking with my ball driller about what I was wanting out of the ball I was going to purchase and when he told me he had raised his average by about 20-30 pins a game after switching to this ball I decided to spend the extra 30.00-40.00 dollars it cost for this ball as apposed to other manufactures.
After talking to some others and finding out this ball has a tendency to slide a little to much with the pin above the fingers we decided to lay it out with the pin about an inch below and to the right of the ring finger basically in the stacked layout on Lane#1s drill sheet but with the pin swung towards 9.0 clock about 1/2-3/4 of an inch, left ball in out of box condition.
I have thrown 18 games with this ball since getting it drilled up and have to tell you I am completely sold on this ball. First three games in my local bowling alley 40 feet of oil with carry down I shoot 246,292,&269 for a 807 3 game series. Thinking this was probably a fluke I went to a house about 50 miles from where I live and roll 5 games there similliar shot with even more carry down my lowest game out of the 5 was 223 out of the 18 games I have shot with this ball I have only had 3 under 200 and they were in the high 180s and 190s I have not found a condition that I have not been able to use this ball on yet but I have only thrown 18 games with it best money I have ever spent on a ball.

skbowl800 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 20, 2006, 09:01:42 PM »

15.2 lbs 4 inch pin, drilled cg in pin above ring finger about 1:30
Really like this ball, pretty versatile, I like balls that go long and turn hard and it does that but its not uncontrolable. I am a tweener, throw it 15.5 mph with 380 revs and a 55 deg axis tilt. I have experimented with the cover alot, it performs well sanded anywhere from 1000-1500 grit. I got a little carried away and sanded it to 2000 and saw the ball get a little squirmy. Overall and great ball, carries everything light, I mean everything! When the lanes dry up a bit and I move deeper and deeper it does tend to leave ten pins but I rarely have to play that deep anyway so big whoop. Overall rating 9 out of 10, I would give it a ten but then again there is always room for improvement.

bwhitt88 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 30, 2008, 09:39:20 AM »

I know its been a few years since this ball has come out but i have to say this ball is excellent for the way i approach the game. I shot my first 299 with this ball. I could swing the ball or play straight with it, depends on the lane conditions. EXCELLENT BALL!!!!!

Author Topic: Uranium Buzzsaw (Read 15629 times)

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