The Gold Standard Hammer's Black Widow Gold
We’ve taken our most angular coverstock and combined it with our most angular core to give you motion where you want to see it the most, the backend. If you miss out on this one, it’s going to come back to bite you!
With Hammer’s patent-pending carbon fiber outer core.
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This ball has bailed me out of tough situations, it reads nicely and turns on a dime even on the burn, in some cases it needs a little more surface but this ball is a definite monster.
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Just bowled a perfect game the other night in league with the Black Widow Gold. Every shot was a no-brainer. Love this ball
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The new Gold Widow features the ever popular Gas Mask core manufactured in the carbon fiber process. Thus, like all Hammers, this ball carries with it a 3 year Warranty. Semtex Pearl is the coverstock material used for the Gold Widow. For comparison of the Gold Widow, I used a similarly drilled Black Taboo. They both have one of my favorite layouts for a Gas Mask core ball. The layout is 45 x 6 x 35 with weight hole on the PAP.
Compared to a Black Taboo, the Gold Widow is definitely more angular. At box surface for the THS and Modified THS, I found a bit of over/under and sensitivity to transition. However, once I dusted the ball with a worn 2000 pad, the Gold Widow responded better. I found a little earlier pick-up in the midlane but definitely a more consistent, defined ball motion with less sensitivity to any midlane transition. On Badger, I was able to make it work with a “more aggressive” 2000 surface (used a newer pad) and keeping my angles very closed. Personally, the Gas Mask core balls have always matched up very well for my game and I have been always able to achieve many different shapes/ball motions with Gas Mask Cores. I believe the Black Widow Gold will offer similar variety depending on layout.
I would say the Gold Widow is best suited for medium volume patterns with a variety of distances. Like with most Gas Mask core balls, many styles of play will find success with this ball. In the past, I have used Gas Mask core balls on many different pattern distances.