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Companies => Custom companies => Topic started by: simonmay5 on May 25, 2016, 04:10:03 PM
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Just seen this on Twitter anyone know what going on with saf @petehosk
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Had a quick chat with the guy who runs their twitter account a while back. Apparently they bought the names & sticker designs etc but are getting the bats made by someone else - he said Andy wasn't involved at all. I asked if they were UK made but the silence was deafening.
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Bloody hell, that takes me back!
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Judging by the bound grip tape it looks like they are imported from Pakistan.
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I played against East Oxford in the rain on Saturday and a few of their players had them. they all had a distinctive Pakistani-made look and feel.
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Judging by the bound grip tape it looks like they are imported from Pakistan.
Agreed. Multi-coloured grip tape always a giveaway
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What a shame. Would pay out for a Andy made mechten..
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What a shame. Would pay out for a Andy made mechten..
I don't think I would had one very good one and one very bad one that was shocking
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It's certainly lost the style it had before. Softs look pretty standard designs and don't fit in with the stickers
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Are they being sold from a shop, or is it just online?
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I don't think I would had one very good one and one very bad one that was shocking
Yeah I've heard since joining the forum. Andy's blog was sort of my way into cricket kit badgering.. Sad to hear very thing went down hill.
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Had one that was awful that Andy used in a net and agreed was awful, and then got a Hades which I went up and watched him make for me. That is a lovely bat!
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Yeah I've heard since joining the forum. Andy's blog was sort of my way into cricket kit badgering.. Sad to hear very thing went down hill.
Can't comment on the bats but enjoyed reading Andys write ups and watching his vids never really knew what caused SAF Bats demise.
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Andy was a decent batmaker - I even made one at his workshop under his guidance of course!!!
I do have a very nice original (UK) made one which is not particularly large but it is a fabulous bat.
I did hear that the quality of some of the later sticks wasn't as good as some of the fantastic earlier ones, but only used a couple so can't comment on that!
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My hades was a gun but the other bats I had sadly did not get anywhere near the first bat
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Andy was a decent batmaker - I even made one at his workshop under his guidance of course!!!
When I say that I made one...I meant that I made one for me, not for retail obviously :(
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Had lunch with the wife on the Cowley Road yesterday, so I thought I would take a look at the SAF cricket shop in Crown Street. Unfortunately it seems it has now closed down. The shop was almost empty. What I can gather, is that SAF was purchased by the chap who runs East Oxford CC. All the kit, bats etc were made in Pakistan.
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Seems to be the way of the world with the sticker up boys
Ok selling to a few teammates etc but that's it
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That's the leap between a business and a hobby, to make it sustainable you need to expand outside of your immediate network.