Wth?
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My first impression is that it's a fake...photoshopped or something. Never heard or saw a CB that wasn't essentially the same material all the way throug...never EVER saw anything like your picture. Most especially, with the Aramith insignia right there on the ball...t's fake.
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Well...wtf? Now we're gonna "dip" (I presume) OB's in some other kind of resin to make a white coating over the OB...to make a CB...with an Aramith logo on it? To save money?...Really? I just can't see a company like Aramith putting their logo on a product like this. If it's not a fake, then somebody is g.d. cheap. :angry:
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gutshot...Please explain something to me. Who exactly is doing this...Saluc, or the end user? If you were merely coating object balls with something to make it white. How would the bar table return the CB. It would have to be oversized (they quit doing that a long while ago), or there's metal inside the ball, and a magnet draws it off.
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Between the inner ball and the outer is a black material which reacts to magnets in bar tables. This method of construction makes for a more balanced cue ball.
People have been posting such pics for years...and as far as I remember they are all Aramith. It isn't fake.
Plus, I have seen one in person.
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This makes perfect sense for Aramith or Saluc to do in the manufacture of their magnetically attracted cue balls. They take defective balls or seconds from the production process, grind them down, apply a metal/magnetically attracted layer around that core since that is what will pull the cue ball away from the main chute and into its' own return chute in a ball return bar table. If the weight and balance is the same using an object ball core as it would be using a white cue ball core, then why would it matter? You do not see the core of the ball let alone its colour. The metal layer has to be put around the core and interrupts the resin boundary regardless and, as such, bar table type play would not be affected on it regardless of bar table used (other than Diamond which uses a normal cue ball, no metal/magnet). It is what you call efficient and cost effective manufacturing. Why throw away or reprocess some of those object balls if they can be used for this? I have seen threads on this before, and those balls are indeed original Aramith balls produced at the factory. They are not fakes. You can see in the pics the black/gray layer underneath the white resin material and it is that layer that is the metal/magnetically attracted layer.
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Standard Green Logo. They use quality seconds and cast the ferrous material on the shell,
Not a fake. Completely known process for the Green Aramith Logo.
Its legit. There have been a few pictures like this over the years on our forums from our own forum members.
*Edit, I was late to the party. ha ha.
*Edit, I was late to the party. ha ha.
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The green logo tounament magnetics do play better then a steel core mud ball, that's for sure.
Not fake and they play like crap!
My apologies to the ever present knowledgeable posters here. I must have missed other threads that spoke to this issue, as I've never heard or seen this process before in the 50 years I've been around the game. Makes sense explained as it was by several posters. Thank you for the education. :thumbup:
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