Anyone know how pool balls are made?

Shaft

Shaft

Hooked and Improving
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I am guessing it must be a multiple extrusion, like several colors of playdough coming out of one hole. The innermost layer is the number and background, wrapped inside a border "tube" (for Brunswicks), wrapped inside a color "tube," wrapped inside a stripe "tube" if it is a striped ball.

Then this tootsie-roll log of plastic must be cross-cut into cylidrical stubs and then each stub ground into a sphere.

I am guessing. Does anyone know? Is there a video? Has anyone cut a ball in half to see the number continue through the body of the ball?

If that is how they do it, it is amazing how everything that is molten stays so perfectly concentric.
 
 
Every week, Bill Brasky's grows a new set of balls because the sheer weight of them are too much for even Bill to bear. He donates these older pairs to companies that pay him. They dry them out, sand them to a finish, and color them. Bill's been doing this since he was three years old.
 
9ballrob said:
I thought you all might enjoy seeing some pictures of the different stages that a ball goes thru in the manufacturing process. This is a salesman sample set from the 1960s for set of Hyatt pool balls.

http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo99/robmontgomery1/100_3268.jpg
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo99/robmontgomery1/100_3269.jpg
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo99/robmontgomery1/100_3270.jpg
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo99/robmontgomery1/100_3271.jpg
http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo99/robmontgomery1/100_3272.jpg

Rob
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Thanks for sharing those pics, those were very educational!
 
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