WHAT ARE BOWLS MADE OF? .....
I understand that Bakelite is the traditional material for bowls. Are there any alternative materials that have been used or are in use today? If so, how do they perform. Please get in touch if you know.
Many thanks.
Zoe Dann, Liverpool John Moores University
Response Number 1 :Posted by on December 20, 1998 at 00:34:08:
According to a book by R T Harrison, Henselite bowls are made of phenolformaldehyde.
regards
Brian Southwood
South Africa
Response Number 2 :Posted by on January 11, 2000 at 09:17:15:
Bowls were tradionationally craced from Lignum Vitae - a hardwood from the rain forests of Indonesia or in that vicinity. Although most bowls are made of a composition plastic crown green bowlers tend to still use bowls craved from lignum vitae but they are becoming scare. Wooden lawn bowls can be turned down in size to make ideal crown green bowls since you can vary the weight of the bowls between 2lb 6ozs and 2lb 14 ozs and use weaker bias than the standard 3 used in lawn bowls - in crown green, depending on the type of green you may prefer to use a weak or strongly baised wood. The crown green wood is generally biased as a 2.
Response Number 3 :Posted by on January 11, 2000 at 09:21:35:
Bowls were tradionationally craced from Lignum Vitae - a hardwood from the rain forests of Indonesia or in that vicinity. Although most bowls are made of a composition plastic crown green bowlers tend to still use bowls craved from lignum vitae but they are becoming scare. Wooden lawn bowls can be turned down in size to make ideal crown green bowls since you can vary the weight of the bowls between 2lb 6ozs and 2lb 14 ozs and use weaker bias than the standard 3 used in lawn bowls - in crown green, depending on the type of green you may prefer to use a weak or strongly baised wood. The crown green wood is generally biased as a 2. I use a pair of lignum vitue Thomas Taylor bowls craved in Glasgow with a 2's bias waying 2lb 12ozs they are a little stronger in bias terms than most of my opponents. However when bowling flat green I bowl Henselite size 4 outdoors and Henselite size 4 indoor medium.
Response Number 4 :Posted by joyce Friday, November 10, 2000 at 07:23:35 (EST):
get over it, bowls are boring!!!!!!
Response Number 5 :Posted by Friday, November 10, 2000 at 15:06:15 (EST):
who said bowls is boring as they have not sense at all
it is most sociable game and very enjoyable game
i am deeply hurt by this comments
who evers wrote this have no sense of bowls
as he or she should banned from this site
from denis hyde
Response Number 6 :Posted by Saturday, November 11, 2000 at 00:31:27 (EST):
Way to go Dennis, bowls is what you make of it and it is not only on the green but also off it. Dennis and I regularly speak over the net about bowls and this relationship was only made possible by this bulliten board.
I agreed with Dennis
Response Number 7 :Posted by Wednesday, February 28, 2001 at 19:30:58 (EST):
Hi you bowlers out there .We have just started playing here in the west of Ireland. We play on 45ft mats.Thing is ,we know very little about the game,i,e rules, which bowls are best, biasAs far as we know the nearest clubs are in the north, to far.We purchased the two mats and 5 sets of bowls and thet was the first time we ever handled a bowl.We are starved of information.... BEhappy ,bowl well and good luck. Peter
Response Number 8 :Posted by Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 16:32:44 (EST):
boy lawnbowls is boring!
Response Number 9 :Posted by Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 10:50:01 (EST):
how dare you! what if I was to say that football was a dreadfull sport, how would you like that? I have to agree with denis and rusty and say that lawn bowls is the most stimulating o sports, I get most stimulated- and did you know it is UNISEX, bit too radical an idea for most sports. It just goes to show how liberal minded the men and women of the lawn bowls community are. I challenge you to a match of bowls, although Iexpect you to decline as you have no 'bowls'.
a deeply insulted steve
Response Number 10 :Posted by Thursday, January 24, 2002 at 10:50:58 (EST):
how dare you! what if I was to say that football was a dreadfull sport, how would you like that? I have to agree with denis and rusty and say that lawn bowls is the most stimulating o sports, I get most stimulated- and did you know it is UNISEX, bit too radical an idea for most sports. It just goes to show how liberal minded the men and women of the lawn bowls community are. I challenge you to a match of bowls, i'd like to see what your bowls are made of!
a deeply insulted steve
Response Number 11 :Posted by Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 10:13:09 (EST):
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Response Number 12 :Posted by Thursday, June 27, 2002 at 20:25:33 (EDT):
I want to find literature on the strategy of lawn bowls.
You start to become more accurate but don't know where to aim for.
I'm sure there's a lot of knowledge out there somewhere.
Can anyone help please?
Response Number 13 :Posted by Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 23:17:21 (EDT):
strategy of lawn bowls... well i know that i've found more of those than i'll ever know. i'm not quite sure, but i think that you can go to amazon.com and type lawn bowls as ur key word and that'll find something for u. but i really desperately need to know wut lawn bowls is! there's absolutely no site that tells me wut the hell it is! o, and i really wouldn't know if lawn bowls is "stimulating" or not. i dunno, but if everyone that's posted something is from a country in europe, most likely england, wut ever happened to soccer? that's without a doubt THE best sport ever. if u disagree, then, well, u disagree. but please, if u can briefly describe wut lawn bowls is for me, i will luv u for eternity, i swear! thanx
Response Number 14 :Posted by Wednesday, November 06, 2002 at 11:01:59 (EST):
Those who say lawn bowling is boring are right. So is Renee. And why? The two things are linked. Put it this way ... I think it's fair to say that most people have at least some knowledge of the rules of, say, rugby or soccer or snooker (to mention three sports shown regularly on the box here in the UK). But very few people other than the players themselves have the faintest idea of what lawn bowling is all about. What are the rules? What is the aim of the game? How is it scored? On the relatively infrequent occasions lawn bowling is screened on tv, it seems to be assumed by the producers that all the viewers know what is going on, and why. For those of us who don't, yes, it is boring. I think that any lawn bowling programme should have two or three minutes at the start devoted to explaining the action. We might all then find the game a lot more interesting because we can understand it.
Response Number 15 :Posted by Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 20:12:55 (EST):
yeah, i definitely have to agree with Noel. i finally found a cite that is devoted to stupid people like me and explains it very well. but i have played and to me, it's like watching golf. You have to know what is going on which viewers like me don't and you have to post something on a cite and yeah. Also what your opponent is doing is probably important and frankly i don't have the attention span for it. I'd much rather play it than watch it, just like everything else. Even soccer can be boring on tv, and yeah there was someone who said it was like the best sport ever? I dunno,but anyways, it's an ok game to play.
~renee~
ps, they have tv shows on lawn bowls????? thats pure insanity. I thought my skool was insane for putting a climbing wall in the gym, but that doesn't compare to Lawn Bowl vision. Scary!
Response Number 16 :Posted by this is not junk mail read it Thursday, June 05, 2003 at 04:20:23 (EDT):
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Response Number 17 :Posted by Friday, June 13, 2003 at 12:06:02 (EDT):
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Response Number 18 :Posted by Friday, June 13, 2003 at 17:30:16 (EDT):
please stop this smut here and bowling is fun
clean sport and socialable game
angry man
Response Number 19 :Posted by Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 01:28:36 (EST):
As a beginner, how do you choose what size bowl is suitable?
Response Number 20 :Posted by Monday, October 23, 2006 at 20:26:21 (EDT):
Bowls is for old people... it is so BORING.
Response Number 21 :Posted by Monday, February 26, 2007 at 09:05:12 (EST):
To all those who have said Bowls is boring, I challenge you to a game!!!!!
Then, afterwards in the pub, expand on why you think it is boring.
B
Response Number 22 :Posted by Friday, May 25, 2007 at 20:59:28 (EDT):
Don't know about flat or indoor bowls,but Ive just taken up crown green(the're arn't many flat greens in the North) and it's definately NOT boring and NOT just for oldies. Iv'e made lots of new friends of both sexes,young and old. It is a sociable and cililised game with standards of ettiquette both on and off the green which other sports would do well to emulate.
Response Number 23 :Posted by Monday, June 04, 2007 at 20:39:37 (EDT):
BOWLS is a very DREADFUL sport, it doesnt show any sense of FUN. goodbye u bowl player. dont be a player hater. <br>PPEACE OUT<br>im black
Response Number 24 :Posted by Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 11:37:13 (EDT):
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Response Number 25 :Posted by Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 10:37:07 (EST):
Please help me complete a final christmas crossword ??
The clue is:
World Indoor Bowls Champion Bowls
* a * s * a * l
Thanks in anticipation of a prompt reply
Response Number 26 :Posted by Monday, August 04, 2008 at 05:39:05 (EDT):
im a high school student and im doing assighnment on "lawn bowling is for the aged", please help me with my questions.
do you think lawn bowls is at risk of dying out due to the younger generation not showing enough intrest in the sport?
do many of your younger friends (under the age of 25) think lawn bowls is boring?
Response Number 27 :Posted by Tuesday, August 05, 2008 at 21:24:57 (EDT):
These days lawn bowls made of plastic. I suspect that more and more younger Players have taken up lawn bowls. However I also suspect that most bowls Clubs have a larger proportion of their members in the over 50 years group. These days if you want to get into State Sides and Australian sides , you have little chance unless below 30 years of age. You should go to the various web sites on bowls. Try "Bowls Australia" and the RVBA Sites. Also look on the ABC on Saturday at 5 pm to see games of bowls and then you can check on the ages of the Players. The Commentators often tell you. Good luck with your essay.
Response Number 28 :Posted by Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 15:33:12 (EDT):
I am 13 and bowls is great is an all aged sport i love it and i play for my county i do hope anybody wanting to disaprove bowls just dont bother your wasting your time thank you
Chris Staffordshire a crown green bowler
Response Number 29 :Posted by Friday, May 01, 2009 at 07:02:13 (EDT):
I asked the internet a question and found this site - which i found very interesting. having played bowls (our club call it Elizabethan/tudor bowls!) which is unlike any other game I have come across - i am finding it hard to get some woods suitable. I have been playing for 4 years with some woods that are made of Lignum Vitae 13 Bias but are smaller than the mens bowls hence I can hold them better. I am now trying to get some of my own woods that I can turn - so looking on ebay and then will get them turned...
Any recomendations? - I live in London - our club is the Barnes Bowls Club SW13
Response Number 30 :Posted by Friday, May 01, 2009 at 15:19:32 (EDT):
I have a large number of sets of lignum vitae bowls which are turned down for customers as low as 00.I can also produce sets in 004 (4 sizes below 00) for juniors from the age of 6.