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Equipment => Bats => Reviews => Topic started by: Liam-SCCC on May 02, 2011, 11:30:55 AM
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With my bat breaking on Wednesday night I glued and taped it up for the weekend. I arranged to meet Mike this morning and he said he would bring a few bats for me to look at.
I arrived at Tesco car park Dorchester this morning, it was hard getting up after the first weekend of league cricket! Mike arrived and opened up his boot. I had a few bats to look and and settled on one. He then stickered it up and put an anti-scuff on. Then talked to Mike for a while and he sure knows his stuff, also got an idea of how busy he is!
That Bat
This was a blank one Mike had with him, 2lbs 7oz 3/4 on his scales and now on mine with stickers/grip/scuff it is 2lbs 9/10oz. It has a slightly longer middle than my other and has no concaving (which is good!). It has 13 grains and a strip of heartwood on the inside edge. The pick up is very good and it seems very responsive off the mallet.
Here and the pictures
(http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8427/p1000426l.jpg) (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/p1000426l.jpg/)
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3002/p1000427xb.jpg) (http://img233.imageshack.us/i/p1000427xb.jpg/)
(http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8753/p1000428.jpg) (http://img850.imageshack.us/i/p1000428.jpg/)
(http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/6826/p1000429b.jpg) (http://img852.imageshack.us/i/p1000429b.jpg/)
(http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9892/p1000430s.jpg) (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/p1000430s.jpg/)
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Looks great, no concaving is the way to go. I wish I didn't live so far away from all these bats, I'd love to check out what Mike's got in stock.
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Looks top notch mate, hope its a good replacement for your old one :)
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I keep hearing about Mike meeting up with young lads in dodgy carparks and tbh im getting quite worried......
nice bit of wood there fella
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The second half of your comment is quite worrying too tbh canners
Lovely bat Liam, hope you get some big runs with it 8)
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nice bat, love the profile. Is it knocked in? Edge looks pretty meaty.
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Mike does like to meet us in car parks and have us stroke his wood!
But to be fair, his booty is full of glorious stuff! ;)
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Mike does like to meet us in car parks and have us stroke his wood!
But to be fair, his booty is full of glorious stuff! ;)
it is a magical boot he posseses
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Sorry guys, just seen in the profile picture that it looks the size of a door! That must of happened when I rotated it
The edges are only the size they are in the pic with the £2 coin around 36mm
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no I'm on my laptop the pictures look fine, the edges are 32mm and the spine is 55m
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you must be well stong to pick that up !!! 55m Spine :o :P
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Looks well nice by the way
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Its only 2lbs 10oz! It was 2lbs 7oz without stickers grips and anti-scuff sheet
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Love the shape of that one.
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Can I just check that these pictures look ok and in proportion to you guys? Think something happened with the camera settings
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Can't see anything wrong with them.
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Ok thanks, some just look enlarged on imageshack screen. Made the bat look like a 50mm edge monster!
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The pictures u have rotated are squashed viewing from an iPhone. Same for your ss jumbo posting
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Yeah, thats what the look like on my ipod. I can assure you the bat isn't that big!
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how much did this set you back?
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Not a lot!
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Thats a beauty!!
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Looks great were my new one mike will it be waiting for me when I return home
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Does the spine go all the way down to the toe?
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I desperately want a talisman special :(
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Does the spine go all the way down to the toe?
not quite
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I thought it didn't and I like it for that reason, not many don't
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Agree the unfinished toe is like a camel without one
I like the bat looks very nice my cup of tea that is
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Yes, i'm very happy with it. Love the textures on the stickers as well
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A little update on this, 2 days after I got it I decided to use it. Running before I could walk. I creamed a ball through the covers for 4 sixth ball and then looked down to see a compression crack.
So I changed back to my old bat and did the same for the weekend. I have knocked it in more and had a small net thursday and then a proper net today. The bat went very well off the middle. Hit a lovely straight drive and a lovely straight six!
I will let you guys know how it goes this weekend
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I have been speaking to mike and this bat has been posted back to me today and should arrive tomorrow! Exciting times!