Ok, there are a couple guys I know that are obsessed with the lustre king machine. Every single week they put every single ball they have in there for at least a minute apiece. It's all I can do to get them to actually throw it after I drill it before it goes off to be kill-I mean, polished. It wouldn't be so bad, but they don't freshen up the surface before the next polishing. We bowl on a short pattern, so length is a needed attribute out of a ball, but drilling low rg, fairly aggressive stuff strong and then polishing them to death makes me cringe. Then they start doing this hook/fade really over/under stuff. One of the guys has a skid/hard arc style, so the ball never really starts revving that early, but the other has a pretty early rolling style. Leaves flat 10's and 7-10's a lot. Finally drilled a couple balls that weren't drilled to roll early (his fave layout is ring finger above the pin, cg out about 3 inches), a Hyde (pin over bridge, cg out about an inch and a half) and a Throttle/R (pin over ring finger, cg negative about two inches). The Hyde is too aggressive, or in other words, it doesn't give him much room to miss left. The Throttle/R was perfect to begin with, but it's already been polished a couple times, so after less than 40 games, it's already doing the hook/fade thing.
Suggestions? It's impossible to get length out of a low rg ball with a strong drilling, all you can do is turn it into an expensive urethane ball by polishing it to death. I don't know what to tell him any more. He's also having trouble adjusting to the newer urethane slugs, they're slicker than the slugs we used to use. He's a gripper, and he has 7/16ths reverse and 1/16th right with only a 4 5/8ths by 4 3/4ths span. I WANT to cut his reverse pitch at least an eighth, get him to let me drill stuff weaker, and get him to scotch brite stuff before polishing it, but I don't think anything short of giving him a ball or two and an unlimited supply of slugs is going to work. It absolutely makes me CRAZY when I can't figure something out, or when somebody won't let me fix something, lol. I think I'm gonna just cut back on the reverse the next ball I drill without telling him, lmao.
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