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Equipment => Bats => Bat Care => Topic started by: deanoknight on March 31, 2013, 07:04:34 PM
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OK went down to dummer serious cricket last week to buy a kookaburra k600, ended up with a k400. after tapping them both up the 400 felt and looked better then the 600. 11 grains with heartwood a couple of blemishes but was really impressed with the rebound with there mallet. so for 100 Quid was worth a go.
I'm pretty sure these come pre-knocked in so i just tapped the edges and toe for a bit and went to nets with it. I have to say I'm very impressed its a big bat for 2'9 and it goes really really well, but I'm still getting a fair few seem marks on the face, nearly every ball to be honest. it does sound a tad tinny in places has anyone used these and whats peoples opinions of what to do? more knocking in?
cheers
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Yup. Knocking and a few months of batting to wake it up.
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I'm knocking in one of these bats for a customer at the moment, and it's one of the harder ones... They are pre-prepared so good to go in the nets after just a couple of hours knocking-in, but as Steve says, I think they will take a few months before they really start to wake up due to how hard they are pressed...
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If you hold it up to the light you should see loads of round indentations on the face. I'm pretty sure they are machined knocked in or used to be.
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If you hold it up to the light you should see loads of round indentations on the face. I'm pretty sure they are machined knocked in or used to be.
With these flatter faces, the edges are as sharp as a knife though, Rob, and need rounding! Machines can't do that...
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so is it worth taking back to get knocked in? i agree does feel quite hard pressed.
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With these flatter faces, the edges are as sharp as a knife though, Rob, and need rounding! Machines can't do that...
Ah right, I haven't seen any of the new ones. The older models you could see the where they were all machined knocked in. Are all new kooks flat faced now?
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Here's is an older kook with the pre knocked look
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Show some pics mate
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will do tomorrow
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so is it worth taking back to get knocked in? i agree does feel quite hard pressed.
You can send it to us, mate, and we'll do the job by hand for £17.50. Quite experienced with these flatter faced, harder bats now!
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ok pics of the kook, not too happy as it has a crack about up the face of the blade nearly the length of the face. opinions please....
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When bats say ore knocked in mate you still have to knock them in Mate.... That's why it's cracked mate as it hasn't been knocked in properly fella
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When bats say ore knocked in mate you still have to knock them in Mate.... That's why it's cracked mate as it hasn't been knocked in properly fella
thanks...I knocked in the edges and toe as it said.
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Alright mate well personally I wouldn't be to happy as I spend hardlys any time on the middles on my bats and they don't crack like that mate :o
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ok pics of the kook, not too happy as it has a crack about up the face of the blade nearly the length of the face. opinions please....
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I would take it back to the shop and they will send it to Kookaburra and in my opinion this will be replaced. We had few issues with one or two Kookaburra last year and manged to get replacement for those bats
Regards
Asad
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this is what I was thinking, but maybe I'll go straight to kookaburra myself as it'll prob be quicker
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I think they will ask you to send it through the retailer, best is call first and check before sending it back direct to Kookaburra
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I had my Recoil crack at the end of the season and they replaced it no problems with a Ricochet this year. I went through the retailer though as that's what they normally ask you to do. Took no time at all.
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the only reason I would rather deal with kook direct, is because I cant get to serious cricket for a while and unless I send it to them and then they send it to kook but i'm sure that would take a while
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Fair enough, however they will likely ask you to go through the retailer so they can confirm you bought it new and that it's not more than a year old etc
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ahh maybe if i send the recipt?
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My advice is ring Kook. They will tell you if a receipt is enough, I would think.
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i've sent them an email. i'm going to send the pictures of the bat via email too. and go from there
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So kookaburra reckon they're going to repair this and not replace it.
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If so I imagine they'll just sand it flat and whack a new scuff on it.
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Me too, can't say I'm overly impressed as I've only used it once!
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So long as it doesn't impact performance you'll be grand. I it breaks there at a later date then you can always complain again and say the initial repair wasn't good enough.
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Did you use it within two wweks of purchase?
if so the warrenty is invalid as it only kicks in from the 15th day onwards
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Did you use it within two wweks of purchase?
if so the warrenty is invalid as it only kicks in from the 15th day onwards
Surely that is incorrect??
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its what i was told by fordham sports when i purchased my ricochet, it basically gives you 14 days to knock it in properly
if you dont knock it in properly as instructed then it voids the warrenty
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its what i was told by fordham sports when i purchased my ricochet, it basically gives you 14 days to knock it in properly
if you dont knock it in properly as instructed then it voids the warrenty
I have not heard of that before. If you are a keen bean you can get it knocked in rather quickly.
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Did you use it within two wweks of purchase?
if so the warrenty is invalid as it only kicks in from the 15th day onwards
I've never heard or read that anywhere.
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i had it knocked in within 5 days and used it.
why waste £30 on a company knocking it in when you can annoy the neighbours doing it
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Fordham Sports talking complete horse poo. Warranties apply from the moment you buy a product. A manufacturer can choose to state that direct damage to the toe or edge caused by lack of proper knocking in could void a warranty, but not that the warranty only applies 15 days post purchase.
For the first four-five weeks you have a "right of rejection" - if the item you've bought breaks, you can demand a refund, but in the case of a cricket bat with obvious caveats.
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thought so, thanks tim
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Fordham Sports talking complete horse poo. Warranties apply from the moment you buy a product. A manufacturer can choose to state that direct damage to the toe or edge caused by lack of proper knocking in could void a warranty, but not that the warranty only applies 15 days post purchase.
For the first four-five weeks you have a "right of rejection" - if the item you've bought breaks, you can demand a refund, but in the case of a cricket bat with obvious caveats.
Why I no longer shop at fordham's. They are full of poo IMO. Last time I tried to buy a bat there, I told them my budget, so they go and start showing me bats about £100 more than my budget saying they are better than what I was looking to spend. Needless to say I walked straight out of there. Romida's or IJC may be further away, but they are far nicer to deal with
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Romida in Leatherhead have just had Dan @ Chase come in and do some very nice displays. gone are the boxes in the middle of the floor.
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Will have to check it out next time I'm down that way.
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Will have to check it out next time I'm down that way.
The shop looks much more organised. Only downside is that they won't be able to put all their bats on display so they may have some hidden gems out back
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They usually do have a few. I used to go in there with one of my old clubmates, who practically lived there! (Reckon he would if his missus let him!) Soon as he walked in, they'd pull out the good stuff!