First, the easy one: Chainsaw. Full review will come with more testing. Right now it appears to be everything it is advertised to be -- smooth and controllable on deep inside lines, but I also played 5-out-to-1 with it tonight and watched it come back with great smoothness and most importantly, not wanting to beak the rack. Best thing about this ball is, like the Tsunami, it allows me to use one ball to take up two slots in the bag and thus free up another slot for a specialty ball in case I hit one of those jackpot conditions.
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Secondly, I found a Storm-poured Lane #1 test ball on eBay this week. I was asking about which Storm coverstock was on the ball early this week and the guesses were stuff like Reactor and R2S. I'm as or more familiar with Storm stuff as I am Lane #1 so I was looking forward to this.
Best I can tell, the cover may not even be reactive. It was about 3 boards stronger than my XXXL Starburst, if that. Only shot I could play -- on a fairly dry, flat practice shot on HPL synthetics -- was to get outside 5 and point it at the pocket off my hand. The finish did appear to be reactive in characteristics but it was like I was trying to play the outside line on PBA Shark.
Either Lane #1 cores are a horrible match for Storm coverstocks, or this ball was just an exercise to see if Storm could physically pour the ball. If it's the former, I guess we know why Lane #1 is being poured by 900G.
Beautiful ball, though. Deep blue pearl, CG clearly marked (I was disappointed in the sloppiness of the graphics on the Chainsaw). Typical Storm quality control and that's a big compliment. I guess the cover may have been Monsoon Pearl, but it was a very mild formulation if so. I probably won't keep this ball long as it would never get used.
Jess
