Dry-Burned up Heads example

[bowl1820]

Went in to try and practice some this morning, got in just after they opened. They hadn't been oiled, so was on the left overs from yesterday.

This is a vid-cap of the heads.

From 10 out its basically dry to the touch, from 10 in you can see all the dry areas. Closer to the arrows all those tracks form a wide dry area.

The Bad A$$ was too much for this, I had to stand on 35 and hit 4th arrow and not have it go out past 10. If it went out past ten it would come back, but it would hit kind of flat.

I was there for 2hours till 12, the lanes were torched. The amazing thing is they have a full house league come in and bowled on them. Its all seniors with plastic balls mostly.

http://s5.postimg.org/8g6sp7g5j/burnedupheads.jpg

[got_a_300]

Wow those heads are really fried I take it those are wood lanes
are they not?

[Mike White]

Wow those heads are really fried I take it those are wood lanes
are they not?

Those are synthetic.

On wood lanes, if they are repeatedly burned, the finish cracks and allows oil to soak into the wood, which becomes stained much darker.

[bowl1820]

Wow those heads are really fried I take it those are wood lanes
are they not?


No, those are synthetic lanes, Brunswick Pro-Lanes (The ones you see with the breakpoint markers).

If I can I'll try and get a picture of of the fresh for comparison tonight.

[dnhoffman]

I bowl at a house with wood + guardian layer and God how I wish I could see the heads that clearly as the night went on...

I played on a pair in open play yesterday, the heads on the left lane were so burnt up I was throwing over the 30 at 14mph, and on the right I was throwing over the 7 at 15mph... odd.

[got_a_300]

Those are synthetic.

On wood lanes, if they are repeatedly burned, the finish cracks and allows oil to soak into the wood, which becomes stained much darker.


No, those are synthetic lanes, Brunswick Pro-Lanes (The ones you see with the breakpoint markers).

If I can I'll try and get a picture of of the fresh for comparison tonight.

It has been so long since I've seen wood lanes that I've almost forgotten what
they looked like. If I had looked closer to the picture I'd have seen that they
couldn't have been wood as there are no big cracks in them in the heads

[bowl1820]

I bowl at a house with wood + guardian layer and God how I wish I could see the heads that clearly as the night went on...

I played on a pair in open play yesterday, the heads on the left lane were so burnt up I was throwing over the 30 at 14mph, and on the right I was throwing over the 7 at 15mph... odd.

Wood with guardian is the worst thing to bowl on, especially if they don't prep the lanes right before putting the overlay on it.

[fortheloveofbowling]

Those are synthetic.

On wood lanes, if they are repeatedly burned, the finish cracks and allows oil to soak into the wood, which becomes stained much darker.

Funny you mention that mike about the dark boards. Do you think those boards would hook more? I know a guy that has been a top level bowler since the early 80's and he told me he would look for dark boards on the lane sometimes when targeting.

[bowl1820]

If I can I'll try and get a picture of of the fresh for comparison tonight.

Okay here the comparison picture.

The interesting thing here is, the fresh after 3 games appears even dryer than the first picture.

http://s5.postimg.org/va9e9b0jr/oilbefafter.jpg

[Mike White]

Funny you mention that mike about the dark boards. Do you think those boards would hook more? I know a guy that has been a top level bowler since the early 80's and he told me he would look for dark boards on the lane sometimes when targeting.

Depends on why they were darker.

The first 20 feet was the "heads" usually made of maple wood to withstand the beating from the ball.

After 20 feet became pine wood with some maple mixed in.

The maple was a naturally darker color, so I think that was the dark boards he was referring to.

If you found a couple of maple boards together down near 40 feet, you had a nice hold area.

On Maple it's a harder wood, and tighter grain so it provided less friction, while pine was softer and a larger grain which "hooked" more.

Boards that were stained because the surface was broken presented with a high friction surface. Not really an optimum place to play

When I bowled against Aslan, those lanes were a forest of broken, stained boards..

[fortheloveofbowling]

I believe he was talking about down lane.