Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Joe on October 01, 2011, 07:18:29 PM
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Hi. I was looking at Heritage Cricket Bats range
www.heritagecricket.co.uk
Now they say they will do a custom made bat to your specifications, Grade 1 willow for £110, Grade 2 for £90 and Grade 3 for £75. Now that's miles cheaper than any other company, and was wondering if anyone has one or knows about them to see what they're like. They seem to be a pretty small company?
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Well the batmaker has been making bats for about a year, thats probably why they are fairly cheap
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I looked at getting my own custom design bat made for ages, move to London from Grantham, Lincs and then this gets posted haha!
Edit: Just seen they are based in bourne, 20 miles away from where I used to live! How fate toys us all
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Forum member innit?
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hi, really interested in one of these - can someone please confirm if the guy is a forum member so i can contact him directly
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Almost worth a punt for the price, when these days people think an asian g3 bat of indeterminate origin is worth £120...
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Guys names keiran Harris. Really nice guy. Used to play at my club when I was a junior. Good keeper and very good bat. Knows his cricket. Think they have been around a little longer than a year. I know he's got the full set up and presses himself on his handmade press. Haven't used one myself but he loves his cricket so wouldn't be suprised if he's put alot of effort into them. Spoke to him a few months back. Easy to approach so worth giving him a call or drop him an email
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Decent stickers too....
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Just round the corner from my home, like 20 miles. Might have to give him a visit when I return from the land of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys! Whenever I spoke to him on here he seemed like an all-round good guy, with a good knowledge of bats and the like, so I'd imagine they'd be worth a punt at those prices!
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tumo you play for owmby? i live there! look decent sticks though
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Part of my stag do was at owmby
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the guy played for western australia in his day, hes been involved at my work in the past, nice guy.
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love the look of these, for 110 as well!
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If these bats are decent then the price is exceptional considering the free one year refurb that is included.
Look forward to seeing someone's views on them.
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tumo you play for owmby? i live there! look decent sticks though
I do play there, correct!Part of my stag do was at owmby
Bottle and Glass by chance? Just round the corner in Normanby, but I can't think of there actually being anywhere to HAVE a stag do in Omwby! Haha
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My stag do was a cricket tour - first game was against louth, but it was whilst their ground was under development, so we played at owmby
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My stag do was a cricket tour - first game was against louth, but it was whilst their ground was under development, so we played at owmby
Ahh, I see! Quite the ground. A very good set-up with the juniors now as well!
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I netted at London road the week before they moved back there to start playing again - looked awesome. Not been back since, but I'm sure I will do at some point because my rents live in Louth.
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Ahh, I see! Quite the ground. A very good set-up with the juniors now as well!
my dad and neil helped set up the juniors!
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anyone going to make the purchase? contemplating it!
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I'm gonna buy one once my GM Flare 808 breaks - it already has a few cracks and is held together with bat tape.
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I netted at London road the week before they moved back there to start playing again - looked awesome. Not been back since, but I'm sure I will do at some point because my rents live in Louth.
If you do pop down next season, give us a bell because I'll no doubt be around there!
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Moving clubs?
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Glad to hear positive remarks. He hasn't been too quick getting back to me and I was a tad worried.
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Glad to hear positive remarks. He hasn't been too quick getting back to me and I was a tad worried.
He is on holiday til 23rd. His wife sprung a last minute two week holiday on him.
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He was on the forum wasn't he???
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i bought an acaedmy grade 3 model in the typhoon - won't be made for a few weeks but will post pics when it arrives...
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Excellent, I don't really know what the profile of the typhoon is - there isn't much info about that on the website, so that'll be good to see! Hope it turns out a nice bat.
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check out the facebook page as there are some good pics on there - for 86.95 posted i took a punt - am sure it will be great!
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Moving clubs?
Only just seen this, no idea right now, everything's up in the air! Glad I've got 6 months to mull it over...
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check out the facebook page as there are some good pics on there - for 86.95 posted i took a punt - am sure it will be great!
Hmm. Me too. I'm taking a punt on a Spitfire LB LE at £115. Can't really complain at that price. Will be interesting to see the delivery time in comparison to other custom makers. I was quoted three weeks/mid-November.
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The only thing I'm concerned about is how they don't show any out and out profile photographs anywhere! Perhaps because each bat is made to order, but you'd think they'd have a photo of the stock shape...
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The only thing I'm concerned about is how they don't show any out and out profile photographs anywhere! Perhaps because each bat is made to order, but you'd think they'd have a photo of the stock shape...
I wondered that too.
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I thought the same thing when I stumbled across the site---for the price why not roll the dice. I'm leaning towards the Spitfire, but I have still to hear from him even after Paypal---he should be recovered from his holiday soon, I hope. I agree that the pictures are somewhat frustrating both with regard to the full profile, and just a whole bat, handle and all, so one gets a sense of the bat as a totality. Did you see the 3 lb limited edition "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon"---now THAT would be a gamble (too heavy for me).
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I don't think it really matters what model you buy, because apparently you can specify a shape when he contacts you - it's just a case of sticker preference.
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I don't think it really matters what model you buy, because apparently you can specify a shape when he contacts you - it's just a case of sticker preference.
On my interpretation of the information on his website and FB page, there are two distinct models. The Spitfire---a traditional, shotmakers bat, and the Typhoon, a thick edged, modern, sub-continent type bat. The pictures show quite distinct bats (look at, eg, the triangulated toe of the Typhoon vs the "normal" toe of the Spitfire). If it were all up in the air, and one just chose stickers then why does his FB album have a "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon" with the explanation that he put the wrong stickers on a Spitfire? I suppose you could just ask to get a Spit with Typhy markings, and he might well do it, but I do not think that is his intent, or the norm.
I like the use of British WWII aircraft as names. His "bomber" special bat should get a better name, the Lanc, the Mossy, (both bat and plane made of wood) Swordfish. Many good names in the hopper: Hurricane, Tempest, Seafire., Firefly.
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On my interpretation of the information on his website and FB page, there are two distinct models. The Spitfire---a traditional, shotmakers bat, and the Typhoon, a thick edged, modern, sub-continent type bat. The pictures show quite distinct bats (look at, eg, the triangulated toe of the Typhoon vs the "normal" toe of the Spitfire). If it were all up in the air, and one just chose stickers then why does his FB album have a "Spitfire masquerading as a Typhoon" with the explanation that he put the wrong stickers on a Spitfire? I suppose you could just ask to get a Spit with Typhy markings, and he might well do it, but I do not think that is his intent, or the norm.
I like the use of British WWII aircraft as names. His "bomber" special bat should get a better name, the Lanc, the Mossy, (both bat and plane made of wood) Swordfish. Many good names in the hopper: Hurricane, Tempest, Seafire., Firefly.
His use of names is due to where he lives. The "Battle of Britain Memorial Flight" flies from close by and there is also a Eurofighter Typhoon base that flies over the wash where there is a bombing practice range. Hence his first bat is from seeing Spitfires of the memorial flight overhead, and the Typhoon from seeing the Eurofighters. If he had been making bats there in the past, he would also have probably called them Tornado or Thunderbolt as those were the two plane types you saw most frequently whilst growing up there.
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Yes, I believe his dad was in the RAF so he has a military aviation link - I remember him posting about whilst I was working on the Typhoon Front Fuse assembly line
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I shall get him to make me a Lancaster then.
As they were used by the dambusters whose headquaters was (and still is) in Grantham, 20 miles away, but my home town :D
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I keep forgetting that there was a jet Typhoon. I always think of the great rocket firing ground attack plane that led the way for Horrocks' XXX Corps in the ill fated Market-Garden (aided now and again by the ugly, but effective, P-47)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e25/mdmoorman/Hawker-Typhoon-Title.jpg)
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WAS a Typhoon jet? There still IS a Typhoon jet!
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WAS a Typhoon jet? There still IS a Typhoon jet!
Oops :-[ . As the son of a WWII veteran and a left wing peacenik---I suppose I have spent more time studying that conflict than keeping track of the extant weapon systems of allied nations, my bad.
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No worries. Just bantering - I work for the lead contractor on Typhoon so it's close to my heart
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Anybody's arrived yet???
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not yet, i have sent my requirements but still waiting for more news...
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Nope, but he said he was "going to get cracking" on the bat.
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Have you all paid and when do you expect delivery?
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Yes I have paid. He did not mention a delivery date or specify a time frame.
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Any more movement?
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Just noticed that the prices have gone up considerably......shame, at £115 for an LE or £90 for a G1 I was very tempted but with the new pricing I have lost all interest....
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yeah, have gone up a lot!
am still waiting for mine - no sign as yet!
i take it nobody else has had theres turn up or photos of bat being made?
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Wow £60 increase on the limited edition
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Don't suppose he's trying to reduce demand lol
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Don't suppose he's trying to reduce demand lol
I think maybe he is. This will hurt his business and he must know that. The one thing that set him apart from others was his prices. Now no-one has no reason to pick him over any other custom company.
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correct - of course the prices were a mistake in the first place ie. 2 years out of date or he was using up existing stock brought at a cheaper price
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correct - of course the prices were a mistake in the first place ie. 2 years out of date or he was using up existing stock brought at a cheaper price
Yes, so those who got in ahead of this did quite well. I suspect he got a fair few orders following this post...
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Does anyone know how much an G1 cleft costs if you buy a lot of them? One for the bat makers maybe.
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£39 but a G1 bat isn't always made from a G1 cleft.
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its a hobby for him, not a job so probably trying to reduce demand!
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£39 but a G1 bat isn't always made from a G1 cleft.
That's interesting, explain more mate
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Been done to death before on here and Cricket Insight.
But in short there's 24+ grades of willow which bat makers can buy, 4 grades of willow on the shelves. A hell of a lot of upgrading (and downgrading) goes on.
Each bat company has their own grading specification, often unrelated to the grade the cleft was bought as.
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He seems to be a very nice young man, and I'm commenting on the price increase and not him or his bats. As a hobbyist maker he may well be trying to curtail demand. So, according to his own site he has just been at this for one year. Drawing on my bamboo fly rod experience I liked the idea of getting a bat from a debutante and possibly an up and coming podshaver. I liked the look, the name, and the point of origin, Lincolnshire. I do think that someone just starting out should price his bats below the normal price. It worked--he got quite a few orders because people are willing to take a risk if the price is a tad lower. If such a maker puts his price up to the going rate then why spend that money on someone who has been at it one year? He should keep his prices low and get as many bats into as many hands as possible. If he is good at what he does, word of mouth will do the rest and he can up his rates. I suppose I was lucky to have paid before the price increase.
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FYI, Jamie's Great Britain tonight features Jamie using one of these bats in a cricket match at Burghley in Lincolnshire.
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Has anyones bats arrived, or seen any pictures etc?
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Seem to be taking a good while....