Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Blazer on April 23, 2012, 08:08:15 PM
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Just saw this while browsing sportsdirect.com.
Slazenger Ultimate Bespoke Cricket Bat Experience for £ 549.99 .
Experience a day in the life of a Slazenger professional! Encounter a service normally reserved for the games greatest players.
A return to bat making in the UK means you can see from start to finish the Ultimate cricket bat being personally handmade by our master craftsman at a secret location in England.
During this fascinating experience you will have the unique opportunity to choose the cleft for your bat from the finest willow available and watch our bat makers handcraft it into your preferred profile and weight.
Our master bat makers will assess your size, shape and weight to help you choose the exact bat to suit your style of play. You will be involved throughout the whole process from choosing the willow to the polishing of the completed blade.
As if the above is not enough, we will also present you with a signed Matt Prior England test shirt and you will receive a presentation certificate signed by your bat maker. You will be able to select from any of our four current models of bat sticker and to really make your experience truly special we will laser etch your bat to create a worlds first to your specification!
Your Slazenger Ultimate Experience includes:
> Handmade specially selected English willow cricket bat
> Complete tour of our bat making operation
> Signed Matt Prior England test shirt
> Presentation Certificate
> Personalised bat ID laser etching service
> Select from V100, V200, V360 and V500 bat stickers
I wish they did some retro range,they were classy back in the day.
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Nice but does anyone actually knows who make their bats in the uk?
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Ruined my pun of soon to be in a sports direct near you :(
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Retro Slazenger stickers were some of the best looking around IMO.
Used to love the V500 and V800 stickers
The new ones aren't so nice
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£549.99 Bargain! You could get two of them for a cenko! What a deal!
Oh wait I didnt win the lottery recently
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I feel they would not have much customers for the bespoke service. The slazenger website has got no details about it.
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Echoing what Fletch said..............who make their bats in the UK?
I have to say it makes me more likely to buy one, knowing that. Before, if I had wanted an SS I would have bought one with SS stickers on it not an SS dressed as a Slaz....
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Oh wait I didnt win the lottery recently
Even if I did I wouldn't get one, I'd get a SCAT instead :D
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£549?
That's way too expensive!!
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Even if I did I wouldn't get one, I'd get a SCAT instead :D
so would i :D
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£550 for a Slazenger :lol:
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A mate of mine had a very nice old school V800 that lasted him about 7 years or so, he might be interested in this service if he had the cash.
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£550 for a Slazenger :lol:
I've just been sick........
Funny how all these brands have suddenly found superior players G1+++ willow. Makes a GM LE or Kook 1000 RP a bargain.
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However with these 'ultimate' bats now, does this now downgrade the GM LE's, Kook 1000's etc in terms the willow selected for these bats?
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Ultimate is top of their range as it stands anyway.
It's not the worst offer with the extras - I wouldn't do it, but it's unfair to dismiss it without seeing a sample.
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I can't see anyone on here taking the plunge without prior knowledge of who the batmaker is.
Still, the 'experience' provided with this package makes it a better option than the GM Players range in my opinion.
I think it's easy enough to get that 'experience' from most bat makers on here. I'm sure H4L or Rob Pack would be happy for people to go along to the workshop.
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However with these 'ultimate' bats now, does this now downgrade the GM LE's, Kook 1000's etc in terms the willow selected for these bats?
this is what a few of us have said all along. this willow hasnt just appeared so its either the same as the top end just below it and they are blagging it, or everything has moved down a grade
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this is what a few of us have said all along. this willow hasnt just appeared so its either the same as the top end just below it and they are blagging it, or everything has moved down a grade
I popped into Fordhams near Wimbledon last weekend and I noticed that the GM LE's etc and top of the range bats looked quite poor in terms of Willow, I seem to remember seeing one top of the range bat (cant remember which now) that had 6 not even straight grains on it. I didn't tap it up so it may have been a performer - however it really looked like a poor stick.
Now I'm not sure whether it was Fordhams that had a poor selection of bats, or the general selection of bats has got worse because of these 'G++++++++++!1+!+!!+!+' bats have come around?
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its the mark of the "E"...
widely held as one of the best around, I believe?
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The offer is a daft one, spend £550 and you are not told where the bats are being made apart from West Midlands and when you can go. Charlie French is not doing them so maybe Slazenger have set up themselves?
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West Midlands - Hawk;
Solitaire :D
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I would guess Hawk...
Duncan Fernley??
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I was thinking DF - They seem to have a close relation with Slazenger from what you can see in sports direct and the like and with their own company failing by the looks of it - seems to be a good move from DF if they were to take this on?
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I was thinking DF - They seem to have a close relation with Slazenger from what you can see in sports direct and the like and with their own company failing by the looks of it - seems to be a good move from DF if they were to take this on?
I didn't think DF made bats in house anymore either though? Hence why Roger Weston left
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They still make some in house.
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I have not seen a DF in years... I had thought they had stopped altogether...
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Bumped this as the price has come down to £290 (inc "signed Eoin Morgan England shirt")!
Did anyone find out where the bats are actually made? I have a vision of some meagrely grained clefts gathering dust on a shelf marked "mugs only"...
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The bats are made at the DF factory by a batmaker that Slaz have contracted in. I don't think the bat maker has an association with DF.
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on offwe from sports direct for 290 ;)