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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Gunn & Moore => Topic started by: RF on January 19, 2015, 07:10:25 PM
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I bought this from ebay a couple of months ago, I was going to take the stickers off and use as a net bat but the stickers are in such good condition I decided to leave them on.
Old school classic
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Good call leaving the stickers.
Much desired retro look.
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Gunn & Moore should really bring out a retro range
The green and blue stickers are classic
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Would love to see a Diamond with a modern flavour. Good call leaving the stickers on.
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I always wanted the diamond after this one with the cut out - I had my eye on one in Nottingham (when at university) after saving up when I went to buy it they'd sold it :( ended up with a nice purist though
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My dad had an old Maestro, wish I knew where that was
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My dad had an old Maestro, wish I knew where that was
@RF I have a memory of winning a maestro or cannon... I was thinking your dad bought it off me. Maybe it's that one!
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@Boondougal that rings a bell, I think you might be right.
Any progress on your cricket project mate?
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That was such an unique shape. The 90s produced some great, unconventionally shaped bats, the Kookaburra Ridgeback is one that was extremely popular for kids of my vintage, especially as Dean Jones and then a teenage Ricky Ponting used them. Slazenger has the V800 with the grooves taken out the back, GN with their various scooped out models...
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@Boondougal that rings a bell, I think you might be right.
Any progress on your cricket project mate?
@RF. Not yet mate. Been too busy with work. Thinking about keeping my powder dry now until next year. Find the right place and get the right people onboard.
Love that Diamond...
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That was such an unique shape. The 90s produced some great, unconventionally shaped bats, the Kookaburra Ridgeback is one that was extremely popular for kids of my vintage, especially as Dean Jones and then a teenage Ricky Ponting used them. Slazenger has the V800 with the grooves taken out the back, GN with their various scooped out models...
I think you mean the 70s - 90s. GNs Scooping was a 70s innovation that has proliferated. The Slazenger V12 and Tusker shapes were the start of the "all angles" approach in the 80s. In many ways, GM followed those two with the Diamond. You also had the SS Jumbo and Turbo.
The Slazenger V800 was very much Slaz trying to copy what GN had done (and getting shut down for it when GN applied patent law on the first generation V800 design with the eyes). I think that was actually an 80s design but it may have been early nineties.
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Don't remember the SS Turbo been anything particularly special or groundbreaking shape wise but the Jumbo was definitely something new/different at the time.
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Ah the old Tuskers - classic! ;)
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Don't remember the SS Turbo been anything particularly special or groundbreaking shape wise but the Jumbo was definitely something new/different at the time.
Turbo doesn't have a spine! One of the earlier shapes like the Newbery Tour.
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my most disappointing new purchase ever was a diamond. ... a plank that B&Q would dismiss as sub standard
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Look at all that wood in the middle! Does it go well?
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No, not really. Only used it once but I'm gonna give it another go to see if it improves
It looks nice though
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I love the shape of the diamond. I have my brother's old GM original but it is practicallyin pieces. If I can glue it enough, it might just about hold up to a gentle tennis ball.
Would be interesting to see a new take on it, perhaps with some clever placed concaving.