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Title: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 08:29:20 PM: Having gone to Hunts County with a team-mate today to see his new Hunts get made. I didn't expect to walk out with my own new piece of willow- let alone what I walked out with.

Before photos are posted.. I want to play a game.
Guess the blade I had made at hunts today.
Brand and model.
Clues will be added.
The prize is the wonderful name in BOLD
Enjoy
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on October 24, 2013, 08:32:45 PM: Triumph custom?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 08:34:14 PM: Clue 1: it isn't a hunts bat
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on October 24, 2013, 08:38:11 PM: Quote from: Kez on October 24, 2013, 08:34:14 PM
Clue 1: it isn't a hunts bat

SS/TON KP
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Krs on October 24, 2013, 08:39:31 PM: I need more clues!!!!
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 08:40:32 PM: The brand have gone bust and started up again- using a different batmaker.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on October 24, 2013, 08:41:23 PM: Woodworm iBat?
BoomBoom something?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: toenails97 on October 24, 2013, 08:48:43 PM: Mongoose?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 09:27:11 PM: Quote from: toenails97 on October 24, 2013, 08:48:43 PM
Mongoose?

We have a winner... well half winner.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: jwebber86 on October 24, 2013, 09:50:42 PM: do you know who owns the brand? and what their plans are?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 10:43:39 PM: Quote from: jwebber86 on October 24, 2013, 09:50:42 PM
do you know who owns the brand? and what their plans are?

Mongoose are current owned by the FWE group and as for there plan ... to take over the world?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: tim2000s on October 24, 2013, 10:53:49 PM: I'm pretty sure that hunts have made mongeese before.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 24, 2013, 11:02:47 PM: Yes Marcus (Mr Mongoose) went to hunts to have the prototype and the first bats made.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Tom on October 24, 2013, 11:45:53 PM: Quote from: jwebber86 on October 24, 2013, 09:50:42 PM
do you know who owns the brand? and what their plans are?
Pretty much exactly the same guys who invested in the original brand own it now.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Twelfth Man on October 24, 2013, 11:47:06 PM: Get these pictures up! How much did the bat set you back?
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Post by: lukemannionzimbabwe on October 25, 2013, 03:23:43 AM: Ay kez that's my prize :( ;)
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: iand123 on October 25, 2013, 05:54:12 AM: Did mongoose go bust again then?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Tom on October 25, 2013, 10:51:22 AM: Quote from: iand123 on October 25, 2013, 05:54:12 AM
Did mongoose go bust again then?
No
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Ryan on October 25, 2013, 10:54:18 AM: i would say Woodworm torch
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: calvin1mac on October 25, 2013, 10:58:21 AM: Ryan, did you get the PM i sent you pal?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: FattusCattus on October 25, 2013, 11:28:16 AM: 25 kilos of Mint Imperials - that would have been an unexpected purchase from Hunts.
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 25, 2013, 02:03:05 PM: The photo's!
2lb 12.3
10 grains

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Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: mr_wickets on October 25, 2013, 02:39:12 PM: BIG lump of wood there! looks like it'll fly!
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Post by: Number 11 on October 25, 2013, 03:44:52 PM: Nice piece of timber, should be able to get the odd one off the square (and into orbit). ;)
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: jwebber86 on October 25, 2013, 03:59:47 PM: looks very nice.

i was surprised by the weight, i have owned one for a couple of years and the ball flys off any where on it.

how come it has the red grip not purple to match the super premium stickers?
Title: Re: Unexpected purchase
Post by: Kez on October 25, 2013, 04:46:31 PM: I had it made at hunts yesterday and those were the grips he had available- once the bat was stickered and grip, we managed to find a few purples so I have them as spares now.
It was an old cleft left behind from the Mongoose making days, having picked out the cleft Tony thinks it may have been set aside for Gareth Andrews or Tresco, however it never got finished. Having been knocking it in today, I do hope to send a few balls into orbit or to Mars.