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Title: NB stunner
Post by: SOULMAN1012 on April 05, 2015, 03:47:58 PM

Ok so here is my new New Balance TC 560 2.10. Had to wait about a month for this as Paul sold all his original order of these bats.

First thoughts are this is a quality bat at an excellent price, this model is supposed to be G3/4 willow I believe but this could easily be graded as G1 indeed looking at Wrights grading this would be G1. 7 straight and even grains, all sapwood and no marks at all. The profile is huge and tapping a ball up the middle really is quite long and certainly goes a good way up the blade, pick up is also very good with its mid/high middle and full spine. Running into the toe. The one area i wasn't keen on was the handle which is exceptionally skinny and I'm not a fan of the standard grip but easily fixed.

So I took the original grip off to add a second layer of binding to make the handle thicker and replace with a thick chevron grip when written at the bottom of the binding is the figure 860. Now maybe I'm wrong but I would hazard a guess I have been very lucky and ended up with a higher model than is actually stickerd. Which if is the case very lucky for me but either way this is a lovely bat. Just need some NB softs now  :D

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Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: Chalkie on April 05, 2015, 08:56:44 PM

Looks like you got a good un there.

As for which model it is, apparently the handle on a 560 is 4 piece whereas the 860 has 9 pieces.

Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: northernboy1987 on April 05, 2015, 09:03:55 PM

That looks an absolute steal! Great looking stick!

Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: lukeo77 on April 13, 2015, 05:12:42 PM

Look like a really nice bat. What's the weight of it?

Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: Giraffe208 on April 13, 2015, 05:26:32 PM

Quote from: lukeo77 on April 13, 2015, 05:12:42 PM

Look like a really nice bat. What's the weight of it?

2.10

Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: dougydee on April 13, 2015, 10:56:20 PM

Looks like a ripper

Title: Re: NB stunner
Post by: MrCricket321 on April 14, 2015, 08:42:14 AM

Man those stickers are glossy!!! Bat looks great tho