charlest .. How could I argue when I agree 100%. I take 3 balls to a center each session .. one for OIL, another for MEDIUM and a third for DRY! Eighty percent of the time I'll start with one ball and never use the others. However I KNOW that some balls react better on DIFFERENT conditions.

My exception with the OTHER BOWLER is the ADJUSTING SURFACES .. I am NOT asking your opinion on this (I do not WISH to drag you in) .. my thoughts are that ADJUSTING SURFACES is not beneficial if you HAVE FOUND A CONDITION FOR THE BALL!

Thank you for your comments .. I appreciate them and respect them.
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charlest, I completely agree with you, so I'm unsure how it can be that Joe also agrees with you.

Notice you said that each ball overlaps the condition just above and just below it.  What Joe said is that he tried to get his GN to cover two completely different conditions, not a condition in transition.  When it didn't work out on the too-dry condition, he labeled it "a condition-specific flop".  That's my only problem here.

Joe, I really am not advocating that you go around slapping polish on every ball you own, and then sanding them all a day later.  I only asked if you had tried polishing the ball before using it on the medium/dry shot, because it was unreasonable to expect it to work as well on that shot as it did on the medium/heavy, without at least a little help to get it down the lane.
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