our house would close for 1 week for general maintenance and resurfacing of their wood lanes, now i was wondering, what would i expect when they open again and we start playing? would the lanes be better? why do wood lanes need to be resurfaced regularly? although since i started bowling they have done this only once so far, and that is like 2 years ago, and i didnt know much about bowling back then. if the lanes are resurfaced, would it mean that it would take longer before the oil starts to dry out? or would i be able to notice any difference? thanks for the input.

What you will probably see is that the shot is completely different. It will play a LOT flatter, depending on the depth of the cut, until a track is worn in the new surface finish - usually takes 2-3 weeks.

The house I spend a lot of time in resurfaced this last year - as usual. This year, the resurfacing crew ran out of the normal Brunswick finish - so they used AMF instead. We're seeing totally different play, different wear patterns, etc. The AMF finish is softer than the Brunswick, from what I understand, and it's taken a while to get the machine adjusted to compensate.

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