The Axe was really only designed for one drilling and that was to line the pin up on the axis. The block looked like ice cream cones and had a small clear marking for the driller to line up the axis coordinates on. For lefties, there was an Axe marked LH so the mark was on the left side of the ball. Back then axis weighted balls were in almost every good players bag because of how well they rolled on the lane conditions of those times. Hammer was one of the first balls drilled this way and the Axe designer, John P. Fabanich, was Hammer before it became corporate.

The Phantom was the first one with the PSA marked like current balls. The training seminar also explained the usuage of flare reducing or enhancing weight holes. The Big B was way ahead of it''s time on this ball and ball drillers around here were completely confused for awhile on what and how to drill these balls. In the store I worked at, I must have watched the training video 6-10 times before I got a slight grasp on what to do since this was so new on the local level. I got out of the business for a few years while going to school and it never really sank in until the Hammer 3D Offset what these different PSA placements really did to ball reaction for me.

Mo put out some balls for AMF like the Sumo and Ninja in early 1992 that had marked mass bias locations also.

It is too bad that bowlingballreviews.com is out of commission because you could find some of these on there.

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"Why don''t you call me sometime.....when you have no class" ~~Rodney Dangerfield to Sally Kellerman, his college professor in Back to School ~~1986

Mike Craig - Storm Products Pro Shop staff -Columbus, OH

Edited on 12/4/2009 11:45 AM