Having had to go to extraordinary lengths to test this ball as it was designed to be used, but not having enough oil in most of the local houses, I decided to try it polished. I had tried it at 4000 grit and while that allowed it to be used on less oil, it still needed medium oil at a minimum and it hooked a LOT more, if that's posisble.

So I sanded it to 600 grit thoroughly with a Scotch-Brite nylon pad and then applied Brunswick's High Gloss polish, an abrasive-free polish, in order to keep some sense of control over what was happening. I put a good dose of polish on it, so you can easily see it is highly polished.

I used it on AnvilLane surface on what I would consider medium oil, based on the other balls I took there and a friend and his son, 2 good bowlers, also bowling there, and my experience with this house. Some carrydown did develop after 3 - 4 games.

The surprising part for me was that it was still this very even reacting ball. I expected the backend to be more flippy. I had another gloss polished solid,  with me, a Track Mojo, newly drilled; it flipped more than the Cell. The Cell was perfect for this pattern. Easy length and smooth transition, with almost the same forgiveness as the 200 grit dull stock ball. That is what surprised me the most.

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vilecanards,

No, it wasn't for a 4x4 drilling, but, in any case, that doesn't make it more or less applicable to your situation. Mine was a 4.5" (pin) x 4.5" (MB) x 2.5" (pin height above midline).

At 2000 grit, the stock finish, I could hardly use it in my home house. The 4000 grit, allowed me to use it on the lighter oil (probably true medium oil; the Cell for me requires medium heavy oil, as I have average ball speed.) but the ball hooked so much, I didn't feel I had real control of it.

Don't forget that the finer grit makes the ball go longer IF USED ON THE SAME AMOUNT OF OIL. Under normal circumctsances, it will have more backend, but the question remains as to whether it will go too long before starting to hook??? I can't answer that for you; you would have to test it yourself.

Applying polish is no different than applying finer sanding grits. I wouldn't apply polish to the stock 2000 grit finish. In my opinion, that would go too long. I chose to start at 600 grit, as matter of convenience AND because that is as low as I would normally go, before applying polish. So if that level (600 grit + polish) didn't work out, I'd re-sand it and start over, depending on what the results were. If I want to go back to the stock, I'd just re-sand to 1000 grit, then 2000 grit. Same for a 4000 grit finish: if it was not right, I'd just re-sand it to 2000 grit.

Experiemnt. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Good luck.
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