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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Gray Nicolls => Topic started by: johnnyw on June 02, 2011, 12:41:53 PM
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A topic yesterday got me thinking about innovations that GN have tried with bats. Last year was the double sided bat, now this year it is the Edge.
Have there been any other ones in the past? I dont know much about the history of bats and GN seem to discontinue the bats after a year
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Scoop
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Yup. GN were widely known for their removal of material from the back of the bat.
GN100 Scoop, also known as the bat with no middle, the GN500 with it's 4 scoops, the Twin Scoop, the Megapower with it's 2 low scoops, the Dynadrive with it's larger longer scoops like the Twin and most recently, the Xiphos... All with some interesting scoopage going on.
Some might argue that the Powerspot was also an innovation - a tradionally shaped bat that for some reason had no middle.
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Harsh - I had an awesome Powerspot!
Were Gray Nics amongst the first to try Carbon handles?
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Didnt GN first take the shoulders off of a bat that was then made popular by the Newbery Excalibur?
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Harsh - I had an awesome Powerspot!
Were Gray Nics amongst the first to try Carbon handles?
Me too... I had a Powerspot Classic LE which was an awesome bat
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Did the Sabre have bits taken out of the back, or is my memory just poor?
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Yes, but a Sabre was basically just a re-hashed Megapower
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my first bat was a size 5 kashmir sabre, loved it haha, doesn't go too badly to be fair
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Didnt GN first take the shoulders off of a bat that was then made popular by the Newbery Excalibur?
Not sure it was GN.
Slazenger made a 1970's V12 with no shoulders.
Harsh - I had an awesome Powerspot!
Were Gray Nics amongst the first to try Carbon handles?
I thought Newbery were the first to come up with Carbo and GN were playing catch up?
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Everyone's forgetting the Viper which was basically a sabre lol. My first one was good but my second was a plank :(
GN the only people to do Titanium handles?
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Not sure it was GN.
Slazenger made a 1970's V12 with no shoulders.
I thought Newbery were the first to come up with it and GN were playing catch up?
Newbery weren't around till the 80s, John was still at GN up until that point.
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Newbery weren't around till the 80s as John was still at GN up until 81
I don't remember anyone doing anything with carbon handles till Newbery did it with their C6+. Those appeared maybe a little bit before the GN Carbos did.
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Sorry, was reading and answering the shoulderless bit. You are are crrect, C6 was before Fusion.
I think the recent GN 'innovations' (Dbl Sided bat etc) are a little gimmicky and are a PR exercise, hence why they're discontinued and only sold in one grade.
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Everyone's forgetting the Viper which was basically a sabre
No, the sabre had two scoops, the viper had four, like the GN500 pro balance form the 70s/80s
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Harsh - I had an awesome Powerspot!
Were Gray Nics amongst the first to try Carbon handles?
I thought that was Gunn and Moore
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Really? There are a couple at our club, could've sworn they had 4 green scoops?
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Didnt GN first take the shoulders off of a bat that was then made popular by the Newbery Excalibur?
GN had supelite variants of some models that short blades and slightly reduced shoulders, this was in the 60's 70,'s and in to the early 80's
They also had a volcano model that was shaped like the Slazenger WG, this was introduced about 194 and was in response to the Newbery Excalibur
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Really? There are a couple at our club, could've sworn they had 4 green scoops?
That was the Scimitar
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Ahh the Scimitar! Thanks Mortimer
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The scimiter i had was one of the nicest bats ive had, I used to love gray nics bats and wouldn't get anything else
i had the sabre 1000, scimiter and the Millenium which all had scoops out of them
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A topic yesterday got me thinking about innovations that GN have tried with bats. Last year was the double sided bat, now this year it is the Edge.
Have there been any other ones in the past? I dont know much about the history of bats and GN seem to discontinue the bats after a year
In the early 80's they also did a laminated bat, called the laminate, but it was laminated across the bat; with two pieces of harder wood for the edges and a softer piece in the middle
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I loved my dynadrive from the late 80's......got over 5000 runs with that bad boy!
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I've still got my Dynadrive, although it has seen better days! If you look at the profile even now it hasn't dated that much...great bat that was.
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Warsop did double sided bats in the 70's, GN are home of scoops.
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Is it true they are brining the Scoop back next year?
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They're reintroducing a retro bat, yes. Probably the scoop.
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Does anyone know if there are any good books on the history of bats?
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It's funny how the scoop is held in such awe, yet in order to get the best from it, you have to be a touch player with amazing timing. A bit like some of the shark's fin bats we see I suppose. ???
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It's funny how the scoop is held in such awe, yet in order to get the best from it, you have to be a touch player with amazing timing. A bit like some of the shark's fin bats we see I suppose. ???
True dat, I recall someone writing in one of the cricket magazines that in the wrong hands it could feel like playing with a table leg.
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True dat, I recall someone writing in one of the cricket magazines that in the wrong hands it could feel like playing with a table leg.
Believe me, have a bad day with a scoop and you don't get it anywhere near the edge of the square - or even off the strip you are playing on...
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It's funny how the scoop is held in such awe, yet in order to get the best from it, you have to be a touch player with amazing timing. A bit like some of the shark's fin bats we see I suppose. ???
Ahem. Not like you to get a fact wrong Tim,
They are called 'planks with fins'.
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Ahem. Not like you to get a fact wrong Tim,
They are called 'planks with fins'.
Apologies... I stand corrected...
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More recently GN had the Phoenix which had twin scoops out of the back, lovely pick up as a result.
I've still got mine somewhere....