BA has a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 layout with a high cg, no WH ... very strong, smooth and versatile !!!

 XD still needs a coverstock adjustment that I feel comfortable with tho ... OOB is too strong for the 4 x 3 layout, so I hit it with 1000 white pad first, then tried polished lightly too ... still too much for me, so now I''''m at highly polished and I''''m not there yet (it''''s not in my bag).
 Thinking of taking the cover up step by step, without and then with polish, at each abralon level until I find a place for this ball in my lineup.

 Any experience or suggestions BTW ... it will need a balance hole to get rid of 5/8 oz of side weight.

Thanx !!!
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Edited on 3/1/2010 10:37 PM

Edited on 3/25/2010 9:20 PM

I agree with Jeff about placing the weight hole inside PAP or up PAP, and negative side isn't so bad if that's what you wind up with.  I had a STING drilled with a 1/2 oz negative side weight and it still arc'd as hard as anything I've owned.
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Robb (and LaneHammer),

LaneHammer's reply got me thinking about this subject. I think his reason may be wrong because even polished balls just don't change that much unless the lane surface is very old and it is really chewing up the ball or if a super light (read: Insufficient) shine was put on the ball.

However, there is one possible reason which can explain what you both are seeing. Confidence in the ball. Unless we have already thrown such a ball or unless we already deeply believe in the "goodness" of that ball, most of us will throw the ball in a manner not quite the same as we throw the balls we use daily. We won't throw them with the same confidence level. we not 100% convinced it will reactthe way we epect it to. It's human nature. So you could just be throwing it better than when you first started using it.

Don't underestimate the power of the human mind. It affects everything we do, consciously and subconsciously.
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Robb,

When I used LM's extended length, my results (not proven) seemed to indicate it wasmuch like Ebonite's extended length polish: in that it was just an extra abrasive polish intended to make the surface finer AND polish it. That gives them both, the "extra length".

They are not at all like Valentino's UFO, Track's/Powerhouse's Delayed Reaction or Neo-Tac's Control-iT. All of those have a "grab inhibitor", if you will. They all provide extra length, REDUCED overall hook AND REDUCED backend.

If LM's Extended Length polish gives you want you want, fine. But extra length, also gives you extra backend. It is just NOT what I recommended.
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Is the XD really that strong. My pro shop just got one in for me, and I have no idea how to drill it yet.

Are we talking to strong, backend wise, midlane wise, roll out strong or what?
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