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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Kulli on April 02, 2013, 10:50:29 AM
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Just out of interest, if you guys were offered your choice from the clefts pictured below, which would you go for, presuming density, cost etc were all the same, so just on looks, or how you think they'd perform?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/kullibino/f4b32ec5-2e4c-4bba-83ee-2374b7f03d1a_zps9f565088.jpg)
EDIT - not sure how to make the image larger, so you might need to do the zooming manually.
EDIT MK2 - fixed
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Personally I wouldn't choose any as I don't like heartwood on my bats.
My general choice is made by seeing a cleft with 8-12 grains, nicely spaced out and a clean overal blade.
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far left for me
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Either of the 2 on the left would be my pick
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First 2 on the left or 2nd from right..
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Second from the right, I was immediately drawn to.
I think if you've got a gut instinct so to speak when you first look at the pictures/clefts, go with that
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Second from the right, I was immediately drawn to.
I think if you've got a gut instinct so to speak when you first look at the pictures/clefts, go with that
I liked that one on first look too, the furthest left looks nice but is a bit too grain heavy for me. Don't think anything here will effect my decision, but always interested in what others think, especially on subjective matters.
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Out of curiosity who is the maker that these clefts belong to?
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Either the 1st from the left or 2nd from the right. I like straight evenly spaced grains.
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Out of curiosity who is the maker that these clefts belong to?
They don't belong to the maker anymore :P
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They don't belong to the maker anymore :P
I will rephrase the question then.
Which batmaker did the pictures originate from?
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Salix.
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My original thought. How did you get them to give clefts to you?
I didn't, these are just the clefts selected by a shop who visited them.
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far left or second one in from the right.
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I would find it enourmously hard to choose from that (actually any number!).
In that scenario I would almost certainly ask for the lightest and best performing cleft from the selection and leave it up to the bat maker.
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what grade were these meant to be
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what grade were these meant to be
Not entirely sure (the writing on them says but I've no idea what the code is, Paul or Asad might), but I believe they're all lower grades as AK downgrades heartwood.
I would find it enourmously hard to choose from that (actually any number!).
In that scenario I would almost certainly ask for the lightest and best performing cleft from the selection and leave it up to the bat maker.
Quite, I don't have to choose one of the clefts, but If I do select one then I can make sure it's in my weight range. Unfortunately I don't know the weights or performances of the clefts, so will just have to wait and see.
Wasn't planning quite such an expensive preseason purchase but the Norwegian tax man was kind to me so it's nice to support a local retailer, as i don't get the chance often!
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far left or second one in from the right.
Same for me
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In final form it still came down to a choice between the Pod(far left) and a Presæntha (2nd from the right), the Latter was an Oz lighter and felt better in the hands so I went for it.
Pictures to follow when it stops raining.
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Second on the left for me.
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is it not possible to get a bat without this brown wood on it these days!
Every bat i have had with it on has split at the join of the brown and white wood
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is it not possible to get a bat without this brown wood on it these days!
Every bat i have had with it on has split at the join of the brown and white wood
These were all performance grade bats because of the heartwood. I believe Salix won't sell anything with heartwood in it as Players or Grade 1.
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i would definatly go for the bat in the middle with the outside edge heartwood, tasty looking grains and nice straight heartwood down the blade
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These were all performance grade bats because of the heartwood. I believe Salix won't sell anything with heartwood in it as Players or Grade 1.
Looked at some salix at globe sports yesterday. They had a pod, £380 I think, 6 wide straight grains. Also finish is no better than h4l or laver.
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These were all performance grade bats because of the heartwood. I believe Salix won't sell anything with heartwood in it as Players or Grade 1.
My brother's Pod Players has heartwood on the outside edge. It is a good bat for the price I got it for, but I would have expected that to be their Grade 1 offering! :-[
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Just a couple of quick snaps taken with an iPhone, will try and post a proper review once the rain holds off long enough to use it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/kullibino/Picture038_zpsbf341ea3.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kullibino/media/Picture038_zpsbf341ea3.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/kullibino/Picture036_zps0444b5ea.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kullibino/media/Picture036_zps0444b5ea.jpg.html)
Made from the second cleft from the right here
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v79/kullibino/f4b32ec5-2e4c-4bba-83ee-2374b7f03d1a_zps9f565088.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kullibino/media/f4b32ec5-2e4c-4bba-83ee-2374b7f03d1a_zps9f565088.jpg.html)
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Damnnnnnnn, that is a thing of beauty. Don't know what everyone has against heartwood, gives it a bit of character in my opinion plus probably knocks a bit off the price from salix
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One of the clefts (furthest right i think) turned out to have a huge butterly stain on the back of the bat, and was downgraded to a wasp. If it hadn't been 2'12 I'd have had that away with me instead, a real beauty and downgraded for something with no (or positive depending on who you listen to) effect on performance.
A ropey picture of all the finished bats as they arrived in Oslo (couple sold before i got there)
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/945497_584936434871124_1120325798_n.jpg)
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That wasp looks a stunner. I have a wasp as my match bat and I am really impressed with Salix
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It was a beauty at at a good chunk cheaper than the rest i was very tempted, was way too heavy for me though so made the right decision in the end.
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Middle one of the Salix bats looks a nice piece to be fair....