Metal is harder than wood. We’ve been over this many times over the years.

It’s not. My MMR dimples. My TOTAN doesn’t dimple much now because it was played a ton and flattened out and then clearcoated over an already compressed PF. My AFMr is dumpling. My Stern Star Trek dimpled and now looks level since it has been played so much.

Metal is harder than wood.

Evidence to backup that claim? Not trying to be contentious, but I’d love to know what sources of truth exist out there now.

Marc

Fair and balanced feedback. There is a lot of conflation between the terms and most people just say dimpling of any kind is dimpling, etc. and then there are folks who say that their games don’t ever dimple. In any case, thanks for your rely.

I’ll keep an eye out for cratering on the SW I’ll be setting up for a friend this week.

Marc

Wood is a living organism; how much of this is variation that’s natural in wood and hardness from board to board?

This is definitely an interesting thread. I find it fascinating that as a general comment about the current human condition that there are lots of folks making everything up from the sidelines without any science (full disclosure, I am one of those people who doesn’t know much about wood and playfields), but we do have an experienced restorer who’s probably worked on more playfields than most of us combined and most folks are ignoring any evidence he brings to the thread.

It’s just fascinating.