Quoted from Eric_S:Im not sure about dimples, but he could win a Roy Orbison look alike contest.
I was kinda getting a Mr. Mackey meets old Terminator vibe. Definitely some Orbison there though. Are those Gargoyles he's wearing?
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Quoted from iceman44:This thread has taken a fantastic turn like the good old days.
Won’t last long unfortunately
Where's the photoshop guy? This thread needs a Steve with rose-colored glasses to be complete.
I'm surprised Stern doesn't treat this as an opportunity to make a few more bucks with a factory installed hard top option.
Quoted from metallik:Naw, there's something wrong with the Batman game. You could go over every square inch of my MetLE playfield and you wouldn't find damage even half as bad as this Batman playfield. And my Met has had plenty of airballs and plenty of plays (although not the tens of thousands required to completely dimple the entire surface). It's the supposedly softer Birch as well.
Is it really that hard to envision that some playfields were simply made with substandard plywood? Young trees, diseased trees, wrong trees, whatever.. my eyes don't lie.
That looks like shi*! Stern, your bread, and butter are smart guys with the disposable income to buy really expensive toys. I know you don't want to believe it, but please don't treat them like idiots.
Quoted from kvan99:Here we go again.....don’t say anything O-din!
It turns out they do use different wood type core and CPR and Stern is Venner plywood.
From CPR website:
What kind of wood are CPR's playfields made from?
CPR only uses the very best wood we can get our hands on. Currently we use a very expensive custom made wood from Wisconsin. It has four layers of Maritime Hard Rock Maple and three interior layers of white ash. Normal Stern wood is a .5325" thick with one good face of 0.060" veneer. We upped this specification considerably. We use two THICK 0.080" face veneers (25% thicker than normal) which allows our CNC operator, Tanner to pick the very best side for your PF and we upped the thickness of the board to 0.545" which gives a better balance with the veneers and reduces warping. The thicker face veneers on our wood (25% thicker than anything in use anywhere) means a much denser wood surface and less ball dimples than anything ever made. Some of our finished PFs weigh more than 15lbs, and are so dense we have seen certain examples of ours PFs almost double the weight of a factory NOS board!
And here I am worried about these new Earthshaker playfields because of all this Stern playfield BS. Time to place my order.
Quoted from YeOldPinPlayer:Just looks like two different kinds of wood. Pine and maybe cherry? Probably not even old/new growth, the text reads like some scare-mongering political garbage.
It's legit. I see it referenced all the time how old wood is better than new wood. They dive for the stuff down here in Florida too.
Quoted from kvan99:That's not the kind of dimpling were seeing in Sterns, this is like an "Orange Peel" translation= normal shallower dimples. Now look at this BM66
The magnet dimples tells you it's the f'n clear. That looks like shit.
Quoted from epthegeek:Wait. There's clear coat on the magnet? WAT?
There isn't? I don't own a pin with a magnet. Well, I own a basket case BK that I've never played. Regardless, you can say that's just the way it is, but that BM looks like shit.
Quoted from vid1900:No clearcoat on Stern magnet cores.
It does not need clear for protection, has Stainless Steel ring.
I get that stainless shouldn't need clear for protection, but maybe they cleared it anyway? Anyway, has anyone tested brass balls?
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