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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Black Cat Cricket => Topic started by: Sherpa75 on January 18, 2012, 11:30:37 AM
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Something was sitting around waiting for me to get home ...
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more to follow ....
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Lovely lovely, that F40 is absolute gem!
You'll be amazed by there performances
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That F40 looks a stunner,
Infact they both do, Some serious wood you have there
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wow, both look very nice :D
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god dam u!
u have to much money lad!
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Beautiful. Can we have profile pics please.
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They both look awesome! Last thing I need at the moment is another bat on my list......but that F40 makes me want to own one... :D
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i'll get some more photos taken when i get a chance during daylight ... but if you flick over to Charlie's Facebook, both these bats are the ones in his photos .. i'm a very happy camper
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That's quite an expensive bat addiction you have (and I thought I was bad!)
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i'm a very happy camper
You have just reached the summit camp with these two Sherpa!!
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Superb!
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lovely bats
how do these compare to the pro bats you bought?
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separated at birth?
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@Canners - i'm yet to even tap up the black cats yet, but i'm a lifelong Newbery fan so i'm likely biased as they are pretty much the benchmark as far as i'm concerned, not for size of willow or grainage, but Tim sets aside better performing SPS clefts then presses them differently so that they just go, even without much knocking in. These black cats are the Jessica Albas of the bat world though, everything's perfect but i'm not sure i want to bash it about. My Newbery's are more your Linday Lohan's, they ain't so pretty from some angles but they'll turn up for the filthiest of parties
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That is some collection of bats, I am slight envious of the quality,
You will have to find time to use them all
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Sherpa I am loving your comparisons! :D
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@Canners - i'm yet to even tap up the black cats yet, but i'm a lifelong Newbery fan so i'm likely biased as they are pretty much the benchmark as far as i'm concerned, not for size of willow or grainage, but Tim sets aside better performing SPS clefts then presses them differently so that they just go, even without much knocking in. These black cats are the Jessica Albas of the bat world though, everything's perfect but i'm not sure i want to bash it about. My Newbery's are more your Linday Lohan's, they ain't so pretty from some angles but they'll turn up for the filthiest of parties
That is possibly the best comparison of cricket bats, I have ever heard in my life!
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Surely you aren't suggesting that H4L, Newbery and Black Cat all originate from the same workshop/pressing house and may be slightly differently finished....? :o ;P
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Surely you aren't suggesting that H4L, Newbery and Black Cat all originate from the same workshop/pressing house and may be slightly differently finished....? :o ;P
That is a very bold statement indeed!!
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no he is suggesting that as much as he loves Jessica Alba, he is only interested in Lindsay Lohan because he recons she is a real go-er.
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neither of which makes him a bad person.
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But that last statement would suggest the Jessica Alba is Lindsey Lohan wearing a disguise....a saucy disguise....I like that thought.... :D
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Surely you aren't suggesting that H4L, Newbery and Black Cat all originate from the same workshop/pressing house and may be slightly differently finished....? :o ;P
I think, if you read a bit close that he's saying Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba all originate from the same pressing house...
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I think he is also saying that Lindsay needs less knocking in than jessica.
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I think he is also saying that Lindsay needs less knocking in than jessica.
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If I was doing the knocking, I would be fair and give them the same amount!!
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i'd be scared of bruising Jess, i doubt i'd notice it on Lindsay
@Tim .. actually no .. i've got my own thoughts on where these black cats come from. As much as Matt said he pressed the bat himself i does have a remarkably similar feel to the newberys but my suspicion from a quick tap on the shadow would be that they originate from somewhere in Devon, but that's just my layman's' tuppence and of complete irrelevance. they are all fantastic bats and i'm very happy to support the craftsmen who made/shaped/pressed/squashed/greased/kicked and licked them
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and Tim, i was merely observing that they are all a very very similar shape!!
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I think he is also saying that Lindsay needs less knocking in than jessica.
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Great looking bats :)
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I think he is also saying that Lindsay needs less knocking in than jessica.
rather that someone else has already put in considerable time on the mallet surely? :D
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Alba is your G1++++
Lohan just G1
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Tbh i would rather have than F40 than either of them.......
Might need to sort my priorities out
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Tbh i would rather have than F40 than either of them.......
Might need to sort my priorities out
Mate, I like my cricket bats as much as the next CBFer, but I would not turn down either of them beauties! I'd be shocked if you found the F40, and them 2, in the same bed, and then kicked the females out...
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Alba is your G1++++
Lohan just G1
Lohan has far too many blemishes to be a grade 1
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Alba is your G1++++
Lohan just G1
Jordan would be one of those bleached Gray Nicolls G4's with the grain covering.
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Lohan has far too many blemishes to be a grade 1
I think their more like marks on a scuff sheet, But once you take that scuff sheet off lies a beautiful bit of willow
Jordan would be one of those bleached Gray Nicolls G4's with the grain covering.
That is very true, But with a middle big enough to take the ball to the boundry with ease
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I think their more like marks on a scuff sheet, But once you take that scuff sheet off lies a beautiful bit of willow
That is very true, But with a middle big enough to take the ball to the boundry with ease
LIKE :D
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thats some bat p0rn
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I think their more like marks on a scuff sheet, But once you take that scuff sheet off lies a beautiful bit of willow
Only after you've removed the gooey residue
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Jordan would be one of those bleached Gray Nicolls G4's with the grain covering.
Chances are it would come to you in a battered/ used state
But would still be plenty of fun
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Well I think that photo has decided what my next bat will be :D Love my Newbery GT but it's a bit thin at the toe.
Do BlackCat do factory vists for average Joe's? Would love to take my current GT and talk through what I would like improving select a cleft, the whole batsmans wet dream.
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I would say that Jessica Alba has 12 or 13 tight grains and smells better than a fresh coat of linseed oil.
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she'd smell lovely, but lindsay would need a bath
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Lovely bats Sherpa but I hope the F40 smacks a cricket ball( on the pitch )
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Do BlackCat do factory vists for average Joe's? Would love to take my current GT and talk through what I would like improving select a cleft, the whole batsmans wet dream.
i dont think they offer this as blackcat them selfs do no craft the bats they are made by there master bat maker
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i dont think they offer this as blackcat them selfs do no craft the bats they are made by there master bat maker
You are a wealth of cricket information!
Shame it means I couldn't do what I had dreamt of :(
Do you know who makes their bats? Or is that a closely guarded secret?
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You are a wealth of cricket information!
Shame it means I couldn't do what I had dreamt of :(
Do you know who makes their bats? Or is that a closely guarded secret?
Yes and yes :D
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Yes and yes :D
Think I might know too ;)
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Think I might know too ;)
I think more people do than don't, well on here anyway :)
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I think more people do than don't, well on here anyway :)
True, don't think it's a massive secrete to be honest
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Closely guarded secret my a**e! A certain TK makes their bats as plenty on here well know.
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Closely guarded secret my a**e! A certain TK makes their bats as plenty on here well know.
Really? Don't think we would have guessed :D
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has the 'cat' just got out of the bag?
hahahaha
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has the 'cat' just got out of the bag?
hahahaha
Haha like it
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Does he though? Never been confirmed by either party, and also have a feeling BC have used other pod shavers too
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Johnny you know what it's like with these contracts, that's why no one officially knows.
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Does he though? Never been confirmed by either party, and also have a feeling BC have used other pod shavers too
All this cloak and dagger is a load of b****x. TK makes their bats.
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All this cloak and dagger is a load of b****x. TK makes their bats.
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best thing about black cats is charlie only uses the best willow avalible by the looks!
i heard he was very very very fussy!
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if it's made by TK, it feels like no other TK made bat i've ever had . TK's all have a certain soft feel and sound to them that i really don't think i could put these 2 bats into the same mould, the rebound just feels too different that i don't think these would have come off Tim's presses
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The black cat batmaker is an artifact of great power and great mystery. Its power is exceeded only by its mystery, and strangely, its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
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now that is something quite mysterious yet powerful Tom
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The black cat batmaker is an artifact of great power and great mystery. Its power is exceeded only by its mystery, and strangely, its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
have you been drinking again?
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The black cat batmaker is an artifact of great power and great mystery. Its power is exceeded only by its mystery, and strangely, its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
Dude where's my car quote? Lol
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Thought u boys would like that one....continuum transfunctioner is a bit of a mouthful for a bat name tho!!
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Thought u boys would like that one....continuum transfunctioner is a bit of a mouthful for a bat name tho!!
Good one Tom, how about "and theeeennnnnnnnnnn?, no and then, no and then"!? Pmsl
Love the film however the mrs doesnt find it funny :(
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I should have guessed!
Noob level up +1 :(