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Cricket Manufacturers / Brands => Kippax Cricket => Topic started by: bigc92 on August 24, 2018, 06:32:27 PM

Title: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: bigc92 on August 24, 2018, 06:32:27 PM
Just watched the new video, and one question sprung to mind. You talk about how you grade your bats. You show a G1 and a G3. But you don’t sell G3’s do you? What do you do with them?

https://youtu.be/yJ8gIpRMcTs
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Jlscarroll17 on August 24, 2018, 06:37:03 PM
Also there’s no option between a standard or wavex handle either 
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Sivlar13 on August 24, 2018, 06:50:05 PM
Also there’s no option between a standard or wavex handle either

I would 100% get a grade 3 with a proper oval handle if that was an option!

Supposedly the next video discusses handles.
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Bats_Entertainment on August 24, 2018, 07:10:30 PM
Just watched the new video, and one question sprung to mind. You talk about how you grade your bats. You show a G1 and a G3. But you don’t sell G3’s do you? What do you do with them?

https://youtu.be/yJ8gIpRMcTs

I thought Kippax sold all 'grades' at the same price point. Are they saying something different now?
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Andythomo21 on August 24, 2018, 08:33:35 PM
Kippax’ main business is as a willow supplier.  Therefore there clefts are graded in a similar manner to most willow suppliers and then sold to customers/batmakers at the relevant price depending on grade.

When producing their own bats, I believe all bats are sold as “ Grade 1 “ .

Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kippax on August 28, 2018, 10:04:23 AM
we sell our bats on performance over grades but when it comes to selling clefts to India yes we have to grade every single cleft as for the handles all our bats are fitted with our trade mark wavex handle the only time we do any straights in on request.
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: JTtaylor145 on August 29, 2018, 06:35:02 AM
@Kippax good video, I enjoyed watching it. The only thing I would say is that the background music was too loud at times and was drowning out the presenter who was explaining that current stage of the process. Well done, please keep the videos coming on YouTube.  Thanks
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on August 29, 2018, 08:16:26 AM
we sell our bats on performance over grades but when it comes to selling clefts to India yes we have to grade every single cleft as for the handles all our bats are fitted with our trade mark wavex handle the only time we do any straights in on request.

@Kippax just out of interest, do your sponsored pro's tend to go for your Wavex handle, or a traditional one?
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kippax on August 29, 2018, 11:06:16 AM
sorry about the sound we noticed that people playing the video on there phones found it harder to hear the talking but we will fix this for our next video

and all our pros use wavex and the other international players we make for have to use straight handles
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kulli on August 29, 2018, 11:18:08 AM
we sell our bats on performance over grades but when it comes to selling clefts to India yes we have to grade every single cleft as for the handles all our bats are fitted with our trade mark wavex handle the only time we do any straights in on request.

Haven’t looked at it too closely but does this mean you feel all bats within one range are of equal performance?
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kippax on August 29, 2018, 11:46:56 AM
not really sure i understand the question is it about the handles or about the performance of our bats ?
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kulli on August 29, 2018, 02:11:00 PM
not really sure i understand the question is it about the handles or about the performance of our bats ?
Performance. As far as I have seen there is only, for example, one grade of Collosus.
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kippax on August 29, 2018, 03:02:26 PM
yes we only make one grade its called the players edition all our bats are pressed individually and made as if we are making them for our pros 
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: bigc92 on August 29, 2018, 05:30:32 PM
we sell our bats on performance over grades but when it comes to selling clefts to India yes we have to grade every single cleft as for the handles all our bats are fitted with our trade mark wavex handle the only time we do any straights in on request.

Thanks for clarifying
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: adb club cricketer on September 01, 2018, 02:49:46 AM
Thanks for the videos, really enjoyed watching both parts and the music was apt.

Just curious, what is the reason for using the wavex handle over regular handle?
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: Kippax on September 03, 2018, 10:57:25 AM
we will be doing a video this week on our wavex handle that should clear everything up for you.
Title: Re: From trees to Cricket bats part 2
Post by: adb club cricketer on September 03, 2018, 10:22:17 PM
we will be doing a video this week on our wavex handle that should clear everything up for you.

Great, thanks. Always interested to see different perspectives and to learn the reasons for different designs..