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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: WalkingWicket37 on January 14, 2014, 10:44:33 PM

Title: What are these marks??
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on January 14, 2014, 10:44:33 PM

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone knows what these marks are??
I love the bat and think they add character, but I have no clue what they are.
Just curious really.

Please excuse the photos, bad light and an iPhone (but you can see the marks clearly)

(http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/CPye061194/77EBD5CE-508D-4248-8CA5-012C220842F9_zpsu50uu5nh.jpg) (http://s1206.photobucket.com/user/CPye061194/media/77EBD5CE-508D-4248-8CA5-012C220842F9_zpsu50uu5nh.jpg.html)

(http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb450/CPye061194/Mobile%20Uploads/1883A62D-D180-4F18-90DC-EC86230DF86B_zpsh76bnvjl.jpg) (http://s1206.photobucket.com/user/CPye061194/media/Mobile%20Uploads/1883A62D-D180-4F18-90DC-EC86230DF86B_zpsh76bnvjl.jpg.html)

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: Vitas Cricket on January 14, 2014, 11:01:50 PM

Hi mate, might be worth asking Perkins17 - he is almost certain to know considering he may even have had a hand in making it.

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on January 14, 2014, 11:05:00 PM

Quote from: Vitas Cricket on January 14, 2014, 11:01:50 PM

Hi mate, might be worth asking Perkins17 - he is almost certain to know considering he may even have had a hand in making it.

Cheers Jake

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: Blank Bats on January 14, 2014, 11:22:14 PM

Staining

There is no movement in the grain is there?

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: yogi206 on January 15, 2014, 06:55:43 AM

Tiger stripes ??  ;)

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: trypewriter on January 15, 2014, 07:33:21 AM

maybe the answer is here somewhere?

http://www.cricketbatwillow.com/imperfections-in-willow (http://www.cricketbatwillow.com/imperfections-in-willow)

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: Manormanic on January 15, 2014, 09:34:09 AM

look like tide marks from a particularly heavy period of rainfall.

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: Perkins17 on January 15, 2014, 11:46:43 AM

They are the remnesce of a butterfly which I tend to find "ping" very well. It has no effect on the bat in a bad way and is only really round in lower grade stuff due to it not looking very pretty in a shop to the average buyer.

Title: Re: What are these marks??
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on January 15, 2014, 10:04:56 PM

Quote from: Perkins17 on January 15, 2014, 11:46:43 AM

They are the remnesce of a butterfly which I tend to find "ping" very well. It has no effect on the bat in a bad way and is only really round in lower grade stuff due to it not looking very pretty in a shop to the average buyer.

Thank you for confirming mate.
I can tell you now the bat pings very nicely.

And as far as only being lower grade willow, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I'd rather have a bat like this any day than a perfectly clean face (but I'm a strange creature).