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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 17, 2018 20:41:33 GMT -5
This one is made from one of my son's retired bowling balls. I already gifted it to a neighborhood girl that just started bowling this season. Final polish was bowling ball polish of course  Thanks for looking Chuck |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 17, 2018 21:03:29 GMT -5
Very pretty! I bet she wears it every time she goes bowling.
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Post by fernwood on Oct 18, 2018 5:14:22 GMT -5
Very cool. Love the polish.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 18, 2018 7:30:36 GMT -5
Man, I bet that's pretty in person. You can make out in the picture how opalescent it is. Yeah, I'm sure it's her go to bowling jewelry.  |
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Post by aDave on Oct 18, 2018 13:30:43 GMT -5
Looks nice. Out of curiosity, how did you break up the ball? I seem to recall reading they can be a bear to turn into smaller pieces. From there, a saw of some sort? I'm not looking to get into working with the stuff...just interested. |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 18, 2018 13:36:23 GMT -5
Looks nice. Out of curiosity, how did you break up the ball? I seem to recall reading they can be a bear to turn into smaller pieces. From there, a saw of some sort? I'm not looking to get into working with the stuff...just interested. It does take some effort. These are performance balls with fancy weight blocks inside so sawing straight thru is an issue. For the most part I use brute force. I usually hand saw through the outer shell which is less then 1/2" thick then try cold chisels and sledge hammers. Trying to separate the outer shell from the inner core is another chore all together. After I get down to manageable size pieces I treat them like rocks and use all the same techniques. They are novelty items. I have given away most of these. I think I may have sold one on ETSY. This is a view showing the outer shell, inner core and custom weight block.  Chuck |
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Post by aDave on Oct 18, 2018 13:45:05 GMT -5
Looks nice. Out of curiosity, how did you break up the ball? I seem to recall reading they can be a bear to turn into smaller pieces. From there, a saw of some sort? I'm not looking to get into working with the stuff...just interested. It does take some effort. These are performance balls with fancy weight blocks inside so sawing straight thru is an issue. For the most part I use brute force. I usually hand saw through the outer shell which is less then 1/2" thick then try cold chisels and sledge hammers. Trying to separate the outer shell from the inner core is another chore all together. After I get down to manageable size pieces I treat them like rocks and use all the same techniques. They are novelty items. I have given away most of these. I think I may have sold one on ETSY. This is a view showing the outer shell, inner core and custom weight block. Chuck Thanks. After my post above, I went looking around and found a old thread of yours (from last year, I believe) about the material and your son's bowling. You mentioned that you might explore selling those at pro shops. Did that go anywhere? Is your son still doing well? |
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Oct 18, 2018 13:54:46 GMT -5
It does take some effort. These are performance balls with fancy weight blocks inside so sawing straight thru is an issue. For the most part I use brute force. I usually hand saw through the outer shell which is less then 1/2" thick then try cold chisels and sledge hammers. Trying to separate the outer shell from the inner core is another chore all together. After I get down to manageable size pieces I treat them like rocks and use all the same techniques. They are novelty items. I have given away most of these. I think I may have sold one on ETSY. This is a view showing the outer shell, inner core and custom weight block. Chuck Thanks. After my post above, I went looking around and found a old thread of yours (from last year, I believe) about the material and your son's bowling. You mentioned that you might explore selling those at pro shops. Did that go anywhere? Is your son still doing well? My kid is still at it and doing well. Turning 14 so other things have caught his attention but Bowling is still his main sport. I never pursued the pro shop idea. Would probably work just not enough time in the day. Chuck |
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Post by aDave on Oct 18, 2018 14:41:40 GMT -5
Thanks. After my post above, I went looking around and found a old thread of yours (from last year, I believe) about the material and your son's bowling. You mentioned that you might explore selling those at pro shops. Did that go anywhere? Is your son still doing well? My kid is still at it and doing well. Turning 14 so other things have caught his attention but Bowling is still his main sport. I never pursued the pro shop idea. Would probably work just not enough time in the day. Chuck That's too bad about the pro shop thing. If that had worked out, I was wondering if you could have expanded your product line to include key rings with a bowlerite fob and zipper pulls. Neat to see that your son is still at it. Hope he can get some schooling out if it down the road. It will also probably afford you some travel opportunities as well. Baseball with our son had us forming our vacation schedule to coincide with where he might be playing. We did this all the way through college, and it gave us a chance to see things that we probably wouldn't have done on our own. Fun stuff. Good luck to you. |
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 18, 2018 16:21:35 GMT -5
That looks great.
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Post by mossyrockhound on Oct 19, 2018 0:15:18 GMT -5
Nice! I should have kept a couple of my bowling balls.
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