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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Topic started by: smilley792 on January 06, 2014, 03:06:46 PM
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Spartan just tweeted this
http://youtu.be/FaHS7Ihpv9U (http://youtu.be/FaHS7Ihpv9U)
Aussie may have seen it as it looks like it's from an Aussie show.
Reg Taylor. Guy sounds Australian. I'd presume he makes the pro's bats only! And the rest are made in India? Or do you think he makes the top line Spartans too? And the cheaper ones just in India?
Interesting to hear about clefts being dried more than old days, and also interesting to see the profile drawn on to the non shaped cleft.
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Reg is ex-Austwide (Impala) - was doing bats for Sommers most recently
Guessing it's more a marketing move but he'll help with repairs, adjustments and prototyping new shapes
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i reckon about 6 different bat makers will claim to make spartans for the top players. I know of 4 different ones who claim to make Chris Gayles bats.
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That chris gayle bat looks huge!
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Those Spartan bats looked very nice! And "Chris Gayles bat" was absolutely HUGE! :o
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Can't blame Spartan for trying hard to flog their bats! Gayle's bat is like a tree trunk but not convinced this guy makes for all four players.
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Read some other stuff the other day which had direct quotes from the MD saying the bats were Indian made
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Bats are definitely made in India. This is just a bit of marketing I think...
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Bit of not very good marketing imo. Seemed a bit like a rabbit caught in the headlights!
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Spartans are SS made predominantly
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Bit of not very good marketing imo. Seemed a bit like a rabbit caught in the headlights!
5 minutes of free advertising during an Ashes test sounds like reasonable marketing to me.
Costs about £8k for a 30 second TV slot over here during a test.
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5 minutes of free advertising during an Ashes test sounds like reasonable marketing to me.
Costs about £8k for a 30 second TV slot over here during a test.
You make an extremely good point!
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His clothing shouts "look at me I work for spartan!" A little too much.
Different subject, but I mod may be reading, how come spartan doesn't have it's own section at mo?
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His clothing shouts "look at me I work for spartan!" A little too much.
Different subject, but I mod may be reading, how come spartan doesn't have it's own section at mo?
Good question I'll ask
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he was doing bat makeing demos at the ground bit like grays do at lords etc fair play to him take my hat off to any caftsman keeping the old skills alive
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Almost all of their bats are made in India, went to the show room a few months back
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Maybe this guy makes their pro bats and the off the shelf bats are made elsewhere
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I think pro bats and maybe the top range is mande by Reg Taylor
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Reg was the bat maker at my local cricket shop before he went to work at spartan (he left the day after Brett Lee bowled to Piers Morgan)
He is making them somewhere in sydney (forget where), i asked him and he makes the custom bats for Spartan
Really nice guy, showed me around his little bat making place before he left.
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Yep reg Taylor now makes the pro bats for Spartan while off the shelf bats are made in India
(Source: his son plays at our club)