Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: jimster on July 14, 2013, 05:13:56 PM
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I think spending too much time on here has affected how i see bats, which is anything that is a mass produced brand such as GM and GN will be horrible and a complete plank, compared to forum sponsors on here. Am i the only one?
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You're not the only one. I feel that paying the money for an off the shelf brand to be a total waste.
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There some great off the self bats and some comparable bargains if your looking in both custom and shelf.
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I just automatically think any of shelf bat will be awful. Even the top range ones
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You get great bats from big companies in the lower grades. At my club there is a GM Octane 606, a GN Powerbow Storm that is averaging 70 and a lovely A61 400. Oh and an MSR £20 bat that is sweet. Bats are bats, when it comes down to it, it's the person using it.
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You get great bats from big companies in the lower grades. At my club there is a GM Octane 606, a GN Powerbow Storm that is averaging 70 and a lovely A61 400. Oh and an MSR £20 bat that is sweet. Bats are bats, when it comes down to it, it's the person using it.
Bingo Steve
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The advantage to an off the shelf brand is being able to pick it up and feel it. Unless you go to have your bat made and feel it as its being made you don't get to pick it up and see how it feels
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Best bat I ever owned was a gn oblivion extreme pro. Cost me £150. Cried when it broke.
There is another one at our club that is just as much a gun.
Great bats to be had both off the shelf, or custom made.
Just as much as a bet there the odd bad egg that comes from the custom makers too.
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my experience with big brand bats is poor tbh
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Best bat I ever owned was a gn oblivion extreme pro. Cost me £150. Cried when it broke.
what is it GNs and breaking. They seem to break more than any other brand.
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However there is a lot more of them around compared to other brands
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what is it GNs and breaking. They seem to break more than any other brand.
Or maybe they're more popular, and you hear about more breakages because more people use them...
And as for the original question I disagree on all of them being planks, seen some lower end ''mass produced bats' that go like stink, I do think someone has more money than sense if they get a top end model though.
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The best bat at my club at present is Gray Nicolls Nitro 4 Star it is awesome. Think it cost the lad about £90 in sales a couple of years ago. I have seen as many good bats from the big manufacturers in my league than the smaller brands.
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Or maybe they're more popular, and you hear about more breakages because more people use them...
And as for the original question I disagree on all of them being planks, seen some lower end ''mass produced bats' that go like stink, I do think someone has more money than sense if they get a top end model though.
not all lower end bats go like stink, i had an £80 kooka blade strike and it was an absolute plank!! then from there have had nothing but complete guns from the top end models ive bought
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I just automatically think any of shelf bat will be awful. Even the top range ones
Definitely not the case.
The Flare Original I have is a very nice bat. Some of the grains aren't as straight as you'd like, but they are evenly spaced, and hardly a blemish in sight. Has a great middle too.
The problem with big brands is that they make a lot of bats, so there will be a huge range of the quality of their bats. And the fact that compared to a small brand who will put more time/effort/pride into each bat, means that you are probably just as likely to find a stinker as a belter. Just the odds you have to take.
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i was watching a documentary about gunn and moore, they produce over 15,000 bats per season since the inception of the dmx machine. so my thinking, the average failure rate is 10% that 1500 bats that will break or not go anywhere that still leaves 13,500 that are gooduns.
Anybody knows that bad news travels quicker than praise and good news. so all we hear about, are those breakages and not very good ones.
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my experience with big brand bats is poor tbh
Depends what you class as a biding brand! I would class Salix, Newbery and M&H as bog brands when it does to cricket bats and never seen or heard of a bad one from these 3 brands.
Due to the law of averages if you buys GM, GN, slazenger, kook etc there will besome planks due to pure volume of bats. Don't get very many at all poor ones in the top range though IMO.
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I haven't bought a off the shelf since my kook about 3 years ago