RBrown Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 Went looking for bowling balls to make vice holders like the one that was on the bp the other night and lucked up on a bunch at a thrift store. I picked one up but wife thought it was to pretty for me to cut up and we went back and bought 12 of them. Picked out 2 light ones for the kids to use and me and wife picked out ones we liked the feel of to use. not a bad haul the balls only cost us $1 each and bags cost the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 24, 2009 Share Posted May 24, 2009 WOW! Now you can take an old bag to the beach. There is a fellow that takes the sparkly, swirly ones and make cabochons out of them for jewelery. Is this vise holder BP posted somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 They make great trebuchet ammo too. Frosty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triw Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Great one frosty lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Does the term "bowling ball mortar" have any resonance for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 No, but I have one that fires golf balls.:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Do you yell FORE or fire in the hole? (My falconette has a 2" bore; not a motar just a smoothbore.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Fore in the hole? I'm not a golfer but I think yelling FORE is like yelling TIMBER when felling a tree. You ONLY do it if it looks like it might hit someone. There was a guy I met in S.E. AK who made a bowling ball mortar and used 1/4 stick of dynamite to fire it. I have NO idea where he got bowling balls though, he was a LONG way from the nearest bowling ally. Frosty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Perhaps he wasn't so far away from the ally when he shot them off the *first* time. I was lucky enough to buy a demonstration bowling ball that had already been halved to show the interior make up---of course I found this *after* manually sawing one in two to make a poor man's engraving vise set up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Thompson Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Fore in the hole? I'm not a golfer but I think yelling FORE is like yelling TIMBER when felling a tree. You ONLY do it if it looks like it might hit someone. If no-one hears have you really shouted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Maybe you don't really mind if a tree falls on them? Frosty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Thompson Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Dat's dat, zen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 If you say so. Frosty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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