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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: Ayrtek Cricket on December 13, 2012, 07:30:27 PM
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The time of year has come to dig out old faithful and see just how bat a shape she is in. Having used her for the last 4 seasons since obtaining her off of Roco I reckon she must have scored a good couple of thousand runs thus far :-[
Having peeled off the cursed fibre edge tape it revealed a few more wounds to the toe area that would need some tlc.
Bit of glue and clamping seems to have done the trick and a good clean up has her back to looking like her old rather beat up self again.
Before...
(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/1597C66B-F8C4-4D5F-B0A9-7E77B72FD8AF-9683-000009CA0175734A.jpg)(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/9CB7D08E-CD94-4820-9368-ACDF76838663-9683-000009C9FCE8D5B3.jpg)(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/8DD7992F-EDA8-41FA-A1EE-4DD9FEC7339E-9683-000009C9F785ABC2.jpg)
After
(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/5E2DC75F-C060-4736-AC10-A865569B57D4-9683-000009CA0A024AE6.jpg)(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/77234D21-A790-49A6-8F6B-28DECAE38E8E-9683-000009CA12281F94.jpg)(http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq167/tom_ayrtek/565FB250-C37C-4068-B207-D06ADA73B87F-9683-000009CA16428646.jpg)
With a self heal anti-scuff and perhaps one horizontally wrapped around her she lives to fight another day and is Hopefully good for a few more runs yet :)
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Looks like you've got some use out of the bat mate it was a stonker
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Looks good what was it?
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Yes mate carrying some serious war wounds hence the dowelled toe to hold it together, large split up the side and today's injuries too.
Saying that even at full price it's looking like £100 a season which is damn good value in my books for how well it performs.
Defo one to get copied with the shape and handle before it falls to pieces. :) in fact might be best to send it off to someone now before its stickers etc again ???
Who's keen ;)
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Looks like you've got some use out of the bat mate it was a stonker
Regretting now eh? ;)
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They are truly sensational bats.
One thing we all can learn from this is that, if you take good care of your bat (that would be only possible if you're persistent with it) then you can really squeeze best out of it.
These cost around 450 GBP so if you use for four years it becomes 112.5 GBP a year which is peanuts..
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Regretting now eh? ;)
No it was a gun but did not feel right for me so glad it went to a touch player to get some use
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Well well well, didnt expect to wake up to such compliments on a Friday morning from you mr RC! ;) haha
Yeah it's had some use but with a end of season refurb its come good again even with the cracks etc
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im quite happy doing a copy for you mate. let me know.
refurb and repair job looks a good one.
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Looks a good'un. Was it the one you used against us when I played you Tom? Went well that day!
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yeah probably mate, not really moved away from it apart from in nets where i use something else to prolong the life of this one
still think that was a dodgy LBW decision lol
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yeah probably mate, not really moved away from it apart from in nets where i use something else to prolong the life of this one
still think that was a dodgy LBW decision lol
Fair play! Looked plumb from deep cover ;) I'd have plucked you out one handed eventually anyway lol
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