I have noticed many different companies pearles look different than other companies. If you take one of storms pearlized balls (lets say X-Factor) and one of Hammers or Ebonites (Lets say Vicious Particle Pearl) they look totally different. Strom has more of that cloudy effect while hammers pearls dont look like that as much. Hammers pearls also look way different when they are dull, they don't even look pearlized! There colors also seem to look like they blend together at the edge between two colors.

I have also noticed that there seem to be different amounts of pearlized effect on a ball, if you take an original Trauma and and X-Factor Reloaded, the reloaded does not look as pearly as the Trauma. Is there some hidden scale of pearlyness?

Thanks
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MAELstrom
No, not male storm...

44 Near my average and my number of balls...

OH GOD not this topic again....

The Smash R, HEX, VOODOO, Turbo Diesel, Thing, Element, TI Messenger Red/Blue

ARE
NOT
PEARLS!!!!

Pearlization is the process that the ball goes under at the factory to be classified as a pearl.  The balls you guys mentioned did not have that process.  You can mix colors in a mold and polish it up but just because a multicolored ball is polished DOESN'T MAKE IT A PEARLIZED BALL if it hasn't gones through the stage of PEARLIZATION.  In this case those balls haven't undergone PEARLIZATION.

Now with balls like the Vicious Particle Pearl, Apex Adrenaline etc.  The balls have undergone the process of pearlization but were dulled by the factory.  THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE BALL HAS LOST ITS "PEARL".  Pearlization goes throughout the entire coverstock not just the surface.  Therefore you cannot create a pearl or make a pearl ball non-pearlized.  Sure you can dull a pearl ball but it is STILL A PEARL BALL.  You can take a multicolored solid ball and polish it but that IS NOT A PEARL BALL, just a polished multicolored ball.  Just remember, it's not the look, it's the label.  If a ball is labeled as a pearl from the plant then it has undergone pearlization, if it hasn't undergone pearlization it is just a multicolored solid ball.

I hope I cleared this up for the confused...and to think I just had this argument with someone today for close to an hour
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-D. Marshall
ScratchBowling.com Shirt Staff 2003-2004