Guys, I'm starting my own pinball company (three of them actually, you can never have enough!), and I'm looking to cut some corners by buying cheap, soft wood.

Can you guys please point me to where I can find these cheaper, softer trees? How does one go about cutting this particular corner? Are these trees grown in china? Or perhaps a lab in Bengladesh?

Also, one of my companies will be a "luxury pinball company," - kind of a Fyre Festival of pinball.

Can you guys please point me out to the expensive, harder trees so I can spend more money on a tougher, dimple-proof wood tp sell to the trust fund crowd? These are artisan trees that are hand-grown and cared for only by the most experienced, expensive tree farmers to ensure maximum hardness.

Thanks!

Also, how will this affect my BOM?!

I still think you guys are all nuts.

I play pinball pretty much every day all over the place on all makes of games and I never notice dimpling.

Post any macro close up photo of anything and it's gonna look terrible. Try it on your face some time.

They know where all the soft wood is and they aren't just gonna hand out trade secrets like that.

The search for flaccid trees continues!

THEY ARE ALL CRAZY

I think on the plus side, this proliferation of dimples in pinball may attract a new demographic that cannot resist them:

grandmothers!

You aren't looking hard enough.

Each of those layers is actually two layers.

How else is he supposed to act to ridiculous, made-up claims being used to support an annoying argument that drives all sane people here crazy - that somehow Stern has introduced dimples into our hobby to enrich themselves and screw all of the good people in pinball?

Where did you get the ridiculous idea that pinball "used to be made of 12-layer plywood?"

I mean...it's just completely made up, or, best case, you are just repeating some nonsense you heard without even considering researching it!

STOP DOING THAT

There's nothing "classy" about repeating bullshit my friend

I hope someone at Stern is paying attention.

There's money to be made here in offering factory-installed plastic playfield protectors.

Make them dumb and expensive enough and there will be a large percentage of takers.

Bingo. This is why all these braniacs aren't seeing "dimples" on their 45-year old Gottlieb playfields; there's no clearcoat!

Right. So basically, this "dimpling" issue can be completely fixed by not trying to find it or photograph it.

Like last night, I was playing Munsters for the first time at Sunshine. Played a couple games. Watched other people playing games. Zero dimpling issues, cause I'm not insane.

But then, I suddenly remembered...Oh dimpling!!!

And I looked REALLY HARD.

And I found dimpling.

I am now insane.

"Hey buddy! Do you notice all that playfield wear?"

Huh?

"The egregious playfield wear! All of that dimpling?"

huh?

"Those tiny little pockmarks everywhere! Do you notice it? Right there! Look close and you'll see what I mean!"

Oh yeah, sure. Hey can I finish my game?

"I'm posting this testimony to Pinside ASAP!!!!!!"

I cannot wait!

I own 20 games.

And there's nothing more fun to do from 9 to 5 in NYC than troll middle-aged toy collectors. I may as well be in the midwest when I'm at work.

What in god's name are you talking about?

When did I "generalize" about anybody's place of residence? I was responding to the assertion that somehow I should be out partying at 3pm on a work day because I live in NYC instead of making fun of dimples.

Look, you are threatening to start a thread exposing Stern for their putty playfields. You've proven you mean business by posting pics in an unrelated thread.

So I'm just looking forward to the main event. How long does Stern have before you take action? When is the hammer gonna fall?