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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Topic started by: musama91 on September 30, 2009, 08:28:39 PM
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Went to Morrant today to get the dukes stuff. Got top of the range test match quality batting and wicket keeping gear (Prestige range). Enjoy:
Pro Century Wheelie
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The Bag easily fits the gear and is very stylish/traditional too, with maroon and cream colours - a bit like the M&H tan leather bags.
Prestige Batting Gloves
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Classic design with white and yellow colour scheme and some black.
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Silver 3 piece sidebar protection on both gloves. Thumb protection is great - very hard! Finishing is above average but not what I would expect from 'test match quality' gear.
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Pittards leather palms are extremely soft and very supple. Its like my hands are resting on some marshmallows!
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Multiple sections offer good flexibility and grip, but not as good as I would like (could be less stiff so I need to break into them first). Maybe there is TOO much colour on them?
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Hand snugly fit into glove. design on wristband looks nice. The towelling is on both sides and feels very VERY soft, almost as good as the Kookaburras
Prestige batting Pads
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Great design - the knee roll really adds some class to the traditional look. Love the minimalistic use of colours on the front.
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Side wings are a nice shape and provide good coverage.
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Padding is sufficient enough. Pads feels soft and ready to go!
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The mesh is comfortable and the yellow black cross-hatch design is great. Pads wrap right around my legs because of this soft padding.
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Cant get over the trim on the side wings - great addition.
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Logo looks sooo nice behind that shiny plastic fitting!
Prestige Wicket Keeping Gloves
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Made by SS? Very similar design to their gloves! Black and yellow looks nice and the leather used is pretty supple as well. Finger protection is more than enough for county level cricket.
(http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l472/musama91/n.jpg)
Like the continuation of the black/yellow on the rubber. Palms have gel padding which is also very soft. Octopus rubber used - not of highest quality but should do fine.
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Best thing is, they are not the gauntlets made by Adidas, GM and Slazenger - hands fit right into these and they are quite lightweight (for a keeping glove)
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Close up of the octopus rubber. Standard of rubber is ok - not as good as the Kookaburra Brad Haddin ones but Kookaburra are league apart anyway!
Prestige Wicket Keeping Pads
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Like the batting pads, these offer good protection and feel quite light weight. No cane involved - just a HDF construction.
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With a thin design, these pads leave the Adidas Pro ones miles behind - much more comfortable and easy to use!
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Same mesh padding used on back as in batting pads. Love the matching combinations!
Inners
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From right to left - Chamois WK padded inners, Cotton padded WK inners, batting inners. All very good sizes and hands fit well into them. Like the design of the WK inners - the towelling matches the gloves - great for people like me who lke matching kit [:D]
FINAL VERDICT
Dukes are pretty much unknown in the cricketing world, atleast not for their batting and wicket keeping equipment, so buying from them was a risk, but the guys at morrant (own Dukes now) have it all sorted.
All the materials, all the technology, none of the prices that the big boys use.
I GIVE THESE 8/10 - Batting gloves could be less stiff and better octopus rubber could be used on the wk gloves
PS - I was going to buy the bats but they ARE NOT up to the standards I want - Feel like they could break easily - though their top of the range is for £115 and could compensate for that![/size=1]
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Not keen to be honest... but will look good with all matching kit.
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Colour schemes and logo look terrible, gear itself and designs are ok. Bag is nicest product they do.
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only think i like is the keeping gloves the rest is awful, make u look like a old man! (sorry when i think dukes i think old man)
And Besides People Will Run Away From You Thinking ur a Bee! ;D Jokes!
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How much did that cost you ?
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Fair enough - entitled to your opinions.
Anyway, Tom do you think SS (or the company that makes SS) make the Dukes stuff?
http://im.edirectory.co.uk/p/1825/i/ssmilleniumprobattinggloves2.jpg (http://im.edirectory.co.uk/p/1825/i/ssmilleniumprobattinggloves2.jpg)
http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/0/3/1/9/1/webimg/750310.jpg (http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/0/3/1/9/1/webimg/750310.jpg)
http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/0/3/1/9/1/webimg/836390.jpg (http://acimg.auctivacommerce.com/imgdata/0/0/3/1/9/1/webimg/836390.jpg)
Pinch hitter - £195 for the lot
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Yes, they do Dukes stuff. Also the pads are the same design as the Newbery GT's.
All from the same factory.
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do ca not make their own stuff either?
http://www.cawears.com/cricket/cpanel/products/simgs/small_1094.jpg (http://www.cawears.com/cricket/cpanel/products/simgs/small_1094.jpg)
if that's a yes, then im truly shocked!
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Don't know about CA but have always though they do soft goods. The glove design is not an intricate one and is easily copied which is probably what CA have done.
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Having the Sareen logo in the back of the WK glove is the laziest designed product I've seen.
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Did you see the ultralite pads while you were there, if so what do you think of them?
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weres the bat>?
not sure about any of the kit tbh
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Did you see the ultralite pads while you were there, if so what do you think of them?
Yep - the guy who served me said he used them - I tried them on and they felt like air. They were so lightweight it was unbelievable. Did create concerns about protection though. For £85 they are better value than the Puma Flextechs and Adidas elites for sure
weres the bat>?
not sure about any of the kit tbh
Bat is being refurbed by Roger Weston. Will get a new plain one made for next season and put custom made dukes stickers on it to complete the set
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spot on!
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except your missing the yellow strip below the shield (the central sticker)
and can i ask why.......
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looks alrite
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do i detect a hint of cynicism in your question glyn?
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me??? never!
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i certainly detect some cynicism. lol. tbh I think it looks great! but thats just me.
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which programme did you use to knock these images up with?
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which programme did you use to knock these images up with?
fireworks. when I used to play Fifa, I would edit the kits by hacking into the game code and changing the files. I learnt how to do all this stuff with paint before going onto to fireworks.
What do you think of them though?
ps was it you i remember you talking about getting custom bat stickers made for £200.
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wrong person im afraid - but good work with the stickers, something that has always interested me but never been able to get into. Get your own brand made up instead of sticking dukes on everything, would look better!
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wrong person im afraid - but good work with the stickers, something that has always interested me but never been able to get into. Get your own brand made up instead of sticking dukes on everything, would look better!
i prefer matching kit. this year is dukes 250th birthday. i think i might put this (logo only) on somewhere on the back face (probs top or bottom):
(http://www.dukescricket.co.uk/dukes/Home_files/home1.jpg)
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fireworks. when I used to play Fifa, I would edit the kits by hacking into the game code and changing the files. I learnt how to do all this stuff with paint before going onto to fireworks.
What do you think of them though?
ps was it you i remember you talking about getting custom bat stickers made for £200.
Would you mind making me up some designs for a couple of blanks i have ? would pay decent £
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get on photoshop and edit one of the ones you like easy enough to swap in a few shapes here and there and personalise the text...£200 seems steep for a set of stickers!!!!
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get on photoshop and edit one of the ones you like easy enough to swap in a few shapes here and there and personalise the text...£200 seems steep for a set of stickers!!!!
I cant remember who but someone, definitely on this forum, was saying that they were getting custom sticker made and were paying a designer £200 to get them done. Anyway forget that, how do the stickers look?!
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look ok remind me of the puma ones though tbh, the dukes 250 yr sticker would look good when vinyl cut and placed on the bottom of the bat
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I cant remember who but someone, definitely on this forum, was saying that they were getting custom sticker made and were paying a designer £200 to get them done. Anyway forget that, how do the stickers look?!
I'm paying alot more for a new design.
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What about TMaxx, was he not the designer for Lekka?
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What about TMaxx, was he not the designer for Lekka?
NEW DESIGN WASHY !!!
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Can you PM me back please?
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hmmmm, all right then - OPEN FOR BUSINESS (definitely not going to charge £200). PM me for any sticker you want done.
will update my stickers as I find time to make the back side
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hmmmm, all right then - OPEN FOR BUSINESS (definitely not going to charge £200). PM me for any sticker you want done.
will update my stickers as I find time to make the back side
No disrespect M19 but a Pro has been allowed to run free.
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No disrespect M19 but a Pro has been allowed to run free.
i have never and will never understand 'lekkaspeak', so put it in simple English!
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i have never and will never understand 'lekkaspeak', so put it in simple English!
He's saying he's not going to take you up on the offer of designing stickers, as he is already commissioning a professional to do it.
I don't think he's trying to be cryptic!
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i wasnt tal
He's saying he's not going to take you up on the offer of designing stickers, as he is already commissioning a professional to do it.
I don't think he's trying to be cryptic!
ahhh in that case, its ok. I was kinda hinting at the guys who just want custom stickers for their own bats.
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Isnt using dukes name on your own stickers highly illegal?
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Isnt using dukes name on your own stickers highly illegal?
yes but as it is for personal use, I can do anything I like! These copyright laws only come into effect when you intend on selling stuff. I can put an armani logo on a black t shirt and wear it but I cant sell it. how are the designs though???
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that incurza patter is from the fake adidas incruza stickers from ebay.
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i actually got the design from prodirectcricket and manipulated some points on it!
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M91, wrong wrong wrong, you cannot reproduce someone else's brand name, image or trademark or copyright materials for any purpose.
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I have a gcse in business studies and clearly remember studying how far protection and copyright laws can go! You cannot prove of wrong on this one;)
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Ill email dukes and see what they have to say?
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M91, you have a GCSE, this should be a whole subject on its own, well done, I'd never have thought it possible unless you had let it slip.
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Any business studies student will tell you that you cannot re-create anything that has been copyrighted unless you have 100% rights to use their branding. Another simple law that has been practiced again and again in all GCSE business studies lessons:
The law gives the creators of literary, dramatic, musical, artistic works, sound recordings, broadcasts, films and typographical arrangement of published editions, rights to control the ways in which their material may be used.
Do you have the FULL consent of dukes to use their name? I highly doubt a company running for 250 years will let a 17 year old kid have the full right to use the dukes branding!
Also, mikes comment:
"you cannot reproduce someone else's brand name, image or trademark or copyright materials for any purpose."
This is also true. Are you sure you paid attention in business studies class or did selective hearing take over?
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I wouldn't trust him to sit the right way on the toilet let alone decifer the Trademark / Copyright etc laws
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Having a GCSE is one thing, using a toilet is a different kettle of fish.
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GCSE O or A ?
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whatever guys. as far i am concerned, its for me so I can do whatever I want with it. Lets stick to the stickers (no pun intended!)
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I do like the designs , so you will have no problem if I borrow them ?
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i also have a GCSE in Business Studies (a*) and an As-level (A). However i dont think you need these to know that what u stated is absolute b*ollocks! What Craig says is correct u have to have permission first
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Congratulations Ant, you can now take on the world and I wish you all the best.
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I do like the designs , so you will have no problem if I borrow them ?
i will because that would not be for personal use. and anthony, the year I did it in was the year the whole bloody curriculum for every single subject was changed. all thanks to government intervention
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i will because that would not be for personal use. and anthony, the year I did it in was the year the whole bloody curriculum for every single subject was changed. all thanks to government intervention
Would that have been after 911 ?
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it was the same for me! i am currently 17 so i am in the same year as you in school and taking a2 level BS yet this was taught to me in year 10 and was by no means the hardest concept to understand!
And lekka- Yes it was but it was not the reason for the change :/ not sue what ur gettin at there lol
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it was the same for me! i am currently 17 so i am in the same year as you in school and taking a2 level BS yet this was taught to me in year 10 and was by no means the hardest concept to understand!
And lekka- Yes it was but it was not the reason for the change :/ not sue what ur gettin at there lol
It was only a question Ant. May God speed be with you.
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Would that have been after 911 ?
that was uncalled for. Lekka your being a (more swearing equals a ban) again.
EDIT: that was not swearing!