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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Tom on May 26, 2009, 09:07:38 PM

Title: What grade is this?
Post by: Tom on May 26, 2009, 09:07:38 PM

(http://i.ebayimg.com/15/!BTLlUlQ!Wk~$(KGrHgoH-CcEjlLl4lRpBKHE1sygOg~~_1.JPG)

Saw this on Ebay, interested to see what you'd grade it as and what type of willow you think it is.

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: yvk3103 on May 26, 2009, 09:11:10 PM

Grade 3 at best and very close to KW if not KW

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: slogger02 on May 26, 2009, 09:13:21 PM

personally would say good looking kashmir (perhaps completely wrong!), but even if it is english willow would not grade it as grade 2 as it is supposed to be.  grade 3 at very best

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Tom on May 26, 2009, 09:22:07 PM

Yeh it's very interesting to see. Have sent pics over to a willow guy I met out in India for his opinion. Got a couple of other similar looking pics here I might upload later.

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: BlarneyArmy on May 26, 2009, 09:29:02 PM

Maybe its the cheap anti scuff sheet that makes it look bad? Its only fablon! But by the looks of it I would say its just a real bad piece of english willow which would go down as grade 4.

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Watsontotty on May 26, 2009, 09:51:39 PM

Pretty hard to tell from the picture but it could be low grade English willow ?

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Talisman on May 26, 2009, 10:05:06 PM

I know what it is, not a fan.

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Howzat on May 27, 2009, 08:13:22 AM

Looks kashmir to me.

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Singo on May 27, 2009, 09:14:03 AM

What is it talisman?

Title: Re: What grade is this?
Post by: Dobbs on May 27, 2009, 10:47:01 AM

Wouldn't be surprised to see it marketed as G2, can't really see the grains properly though, could easily be Kashmir