Just curious....

Has anyone polished up a Surelock?  Did you like the reaction?  I polished mine up last night in preparation for a tournament on the new PBA Johnny Patraglia Pattern starting today. If needed I will knock down the polish.

Going to be style and condition specific obviously.  Pretty depressing to me how quickly I can turn even my More Cash into nearly a spare ball with high grit and polish with my low rev style on heavier oil synthetics.

Maybe it's just me, but for the life of me I'll never understand the true purpose of polishing a high end asymmetric ball, when there are different options to fit certain conditions/reactions.

Makes no sense to me imo, defeats the purpose of the ball, but to each their own.

Quote from: leftybowler70 on November 04, 2017, 05:54:39 PM

Maybe it's just me, but for the life of me I'll never understand the true purpose of polishing a high end asymmetric ball, when there are different options to fit certain conditions/reactions.

Makes no sense to me imo, defeats the purpose of the ball, but to each their own.

The purpose of Polishing or Sanding a bowling ball, whether it's a Asymmetrical or a Symmetrical. Is to fine tune the reaction to best match the conditions at hand.

It doesn't defeat the purpose of the ball, when done properly and at the proper time it enhances it's performance.

Can kind of see both points but most of the time when someone is polishing a Sure Lock its because they should have bought a Hy-Road instead.

I never mentioned surface, I mentioned polish (we all know the purpose and the great purposes of surface). Polishing strong  asymmetric balls defeats the purpose of buying the ball in the first place.

I would have to agree with above polishing strong asymmetric balls is not the best use of buying such a strong ball. I have a Sure Lock in box condition drilled for a new house I started bowling in this season that was suppose to be oily but they changed shot this season thus it sits in its bag in the truck. I got a used Motiv Ghost from a friend who only used it for less than 20 games and figured I would try it with polish at both houses and honestly did not like how unpredictable it reacted for me. Took polish off and I love the reaction but can not use it on the house shots I bowl on thus far this season as it is too strong so it sits in the bag.

Quote from: leftybowler70 on November 04, 2017, 07:05:33 PM

I never mentioned surface, I mentioned polish (we all know the purpose and the great purposes of surface). Polishing strong  asymmetric balls defeats the purpose of buying the ball in the first place.

I would have to agree with above polishing strong asymmetric balls is not the best use of buying such a strong ball. I have a Sure Lock in box condition drilled for a new house I started bowling in this season that was suppose to be oily but they changed shot this season thus it sits in its bag in the truck. I got a used Motiv Ghost from a friend who only used it for less than 20 games and figured I would try it with polish at both houses and honestly did not like how unpredictable it reacted for me. Took polish off and I love the reaction but can not use it on the house shots I bowl on thus far this season as it is too strong so it sits in the bag.

Exactly.

Maybe it's just me, but for the life of me I'll never understand the true purpose of polishing a high end asymmetric ball, when there are different options to fit certain conditions/reactions.

Makes no sense to me imo, defeats the purpose of the ball, but to each their own.

 
I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday. 
 
I bought the SureLock as an oil ball. For that purpose, it's not working. It's laboring to rev in the midlane, and I don't like the transition to friction downline. I bowl in a year round sport league with longer patterns, so I know I'm attempting to use it on the right shots. As I mentioned, my Guru's with surface are working fine.
 
So I have a choice. Give up on the ball and sell it, or play with the surface to see if it's usable for something. 
 
I'm not going crazy with surface adjustments. The SureLock comes 2000 NIB, and I hit it with a 4000 pad for 10 seconds on each side hoping that the ball will roll better, for something. I can hit it harder with a 4000 pad if that seems to be the right direction.
 
We'll see today when I go up and practice.

Understand..... hope it works out for you; Again as I mentioned earlier, there will always be exceptions to the rule ;as in some situations it should be).

If I had to as a last resort, I would BUT ONLY as a last resort. It may work out for you. Let us know.