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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Chris1976 on August 11, 2008, 09:38:26 AM
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This is your chance to win a cricket bat for each of the next 3 seasons!!
We are a fairly new company who have been successfully selling hand made cricket bats in our area.
We are now going to promote them across the UK and need to jazz up our graphics to appeal to the modern day cricketer.......
This is where you guys come in... if you can design a full set of stickers for the bats the winner will claim the prize!!!!
The Brand is Dynamite Bats and the bat we are promoting is the Dynamite "Dynamis"
I am in partnership with a friend and very good cricketer.... we know what cricketers want from a cricket bat when it comes to performance and we do not sell bats that we would not die to use ourselves.... therefore all of our bats have extremely large powerful middles.... but maintain a fantastically light pickup.
We look forward to seeing your designs. **COMP OVER** WINNER WAS LEO
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Hi, and welcome,
I will be doing a design shorlty!
Do you have a website?
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Sadly at the moment we do not have a website.... that is the next thing on the agenda.... however until we are happy with our graphics we won't be selling them online.
We are lucky because we have a number of very good cricketers using the bats already (non pros of course) so our sales have been good purely through word of mouth.
These bats really are fantastic.... so we are looking for graphics that will look as good as the bats perform ;)
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Hi,
Do you have any logo's that you want us to use or are you wanting us to come up with that aswell?
Cheers
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Because we are a fairly new company we are happy for you guys to come up with a logo.
We have concentrated so much on perfecting the concept and producing the quality of bat required that the graphics took a backseat... probably wrongly.
Because our need for the graphics is so great and quite intense for you guys we decided to offer a bat for the next 3 seasons or whenever required up to the number of 3 rather than a single bat because we feel we need to reward you for your work.
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Ok, cheers.
Will someone whip up that template please, I seem to have deleted mine!
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Well I guess I see more of bats than most folks and frankly I get a little sick and tired of stickers all over bats and most of them don't really say much and look a heck of a lot alike.
Frankly on the back down the left and right side I have the word "Dynamis" available in red, blue or green making sure the TM is protected.
On the front in plain letter the words "Dynamite" just below the splice and then in small letters "(hand) made by" and your two names or signatures and if made for a particular person 'Exclusively for xxxx".
Keep it simple, keep it direct and cut down on any confusion.
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Im currently working on mine not sure whether the final draft will be made on the computer or drawn by hand yet.
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If its alright, I'll just do mine by hand to start with, then if you want, I'll try and make them on me computer.
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No problem... we can maybe worry about getting it done online at a later date....
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I can help make any ones done on paper into compy versions if we need to
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Cheers Pal... :)
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he designs you have all been waiting for....
Design 1
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/2759575542_7477bf2284.jpg?v=0)
Design 2
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2758735239_60fc975c59.jpg?v=0)
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my basic design will do a better one when i see more designs (http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc166/joeb090/batdesign1.jpg)
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he designs you have all been waiting for....
Design 1
([url]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/2759575542_7477bf2284.jpg?v=0[/url])
Design 2
([url]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/2758735239_60fc975c59.jpg?v=0[/url])
Haha Thats Fudging brilliant !!! I Would Buy One !!!
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Heres a very quick one, i will do more im just seeing wot the compititions like
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/bnncc/Dynamitecricket.jpg)
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I've got one on paper, just waiting for leo to come back online to try and get it made up!
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quote 'caution: may explode'
surely thats not the best selling point?
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maybe 'Made for the explosive batsman'
or '....we dont blow'
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Haha Thats Fudging brilliant !!! I Would Buy One !!!
Thanks mate...yours isnt too shabby just needs sharpening up a bit
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Leo, you do realise there are other possible shapes for front stickers don't you? All your designs are ridiculously similar
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Dynamite,
Are there any current designs you like for bat stickers? Any company logo's you like? Any slogans?
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Heres another effort from me
Design 3
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2760856318_754a529f2d.jpg?v=0)
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Heres another effort from me
Design 3
([url]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2760856318_754a529f2d.jpg?v=0[/url])
hmmm, right in my opinion the ripped up dyanamite charictor is a bit gay ?
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Lol! Now you mention it i can see what you mean!
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It looks like one if the soldier ant from the film Antz!
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It's Leo self-perception!
And Leo, listen to Ed, he's right, try changing it just a little bit!
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COuldn't get this design onto the template and still keep everything in proportion
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff42/johnnywinter147/dynamite.jpg)
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I really like Leo's first design... I wish i was better at designing then i would enter this
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heres my effort:
(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z6/Galge/Dynamitestickers.jpg)
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Nicked the logo off the remote control car company I see.
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Yeah I know, I'm not very good. I just fancied a go!
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How do you get the templates?? cheers
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Here is a copy of the template mate :)
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i29/02thoeva/plainbat.jpg)
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Haha, I was gonna say that was the only good bit about Gareth's!!
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Got a massive dilema as an experiment I produced 3 bats that I would class as inferior looks-wise!!! two have a minor knot on the front and this one pictured has a fairly substantial butterfly stain.... however out of my latest bunch of bats these 3 have turned out to perform the best LOL.
Don't get me wrong the others are brilliant bats too but these three have happend to be exceptional ....what I would class as once in a lifetime bats!! 1 for sure will be used by myself!!!! What would you guys do with them?
I'm thinking of creating a whole new grade and call them Performance Grade or something and sell them on the phenominal performance they give. Would you consider that an option?? You can see its a dilema.... just thought I'd post the pic anyway as it gives you an idea of our shape etc.
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Keep the poor looking ones for yourself or sell to team mates. It's hard to sell an ugly looking bat on the internet, based on the sellers word that it's good.
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I would say yes, lots of smaller companies do that eg. Fusion, MG2.
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Yeah I know what you mean.... I've just sold one of them for £165.00 though.... friend dropped in, I let him try a number of balls on it and a mallet... asked him what he thought was a fair price and there we go :-)
I've got one on the side for me now going to oil it and spend about 4 hours annoying the girlfriend by knocking it in ::) ;D
In all honesty 90% of all the bats we have made in this latest run have been great... we are over the moon with them!!! The average ones will be ditched and hopefully the rest are going to make for some very happy batsman and some very unhappy bowlers ;D
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I know of a few podshavers that I would be happy to buy a bat based on them saying it performed well. I think it is a question of trust.... If you're comfortable that is performs well then grade it accordingly
The guys I'm thinking of are....
Julian Millichamp
James Laver
Andrew Kember
Tim Keeley
James Cornford
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I agree with you Norbair... and trust is the thing I'm looking to achieve with this brand.
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Here take a look at this it may help
http://www.custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=195.0
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This is the bat I've selected for myself from our latest batch! Noticed the crappy stickers.... this is why we need your help!!! fortunately everyone who has bought them from us has accepted that they are proto-types so have accepted performance without the good looks :-[
Normally this bat would be sold with a red or black grip... personally I think the red one looks better but it's personal taste! (for some reason this light coloured grip thats normally under the 2nd grip has grown on me as it makes my stickers look less tacky... well in the flesh anyway... photos never do products much justice).
Basically at the time we just needed something on the bat so that people knew the brand... now I need to have great stickers to truly help create the brand.
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If you have another 'inferior-looking' one, I will pay your postage costs, and give you some exposure here!! ;D
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same!
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Keep the designs coming as you can see we are desperate LOL take your time though as we have a bit of time to make our minds up.
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Mine is on its way (will post tomorrow), only on paper with colour. Leo has offered to make it up on comp if it wins.
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I'll have an entry soonish.
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My Entry:
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z81/salixlover/DYNAMITEfinished.jpg)
I am going on hols tonite, therefore I will not be able to reply to comments until September 1st.
Leo has kindly said he would make it up on a computer if this wins (not likely!)
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Great effort richie looks really nice
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Same as Kaz's entry into the Fusion competition and my Itias stickers :P
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My miserable effort...
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee75/miroslav_dobson/dynamitebatstickerdesign.jpg)
Shame all I have is Microsoft Paint lol.
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Same as Kaz's entry into the Fusion competition and my Itias stickers :P
So..... Haha, liked the style so I changed it to fit in :P
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will this competition ever end?
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The comp will end in around 2wks time! I have had people ask if it's still open so am giving them time to enter!
Actually lets say 5th September
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If I win I will donate the bats to Cricket Afghanistan.
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nice art
maybe your get a mbe!
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Hi, mine is nearly done, I might have to enter it tomorrow, is that okay?
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Seems as the closing date is the 4th
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winner yet ?
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the guys behind the comp will tell us once they have a winner.
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(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o308/haz987/CricketPhotos041.jpg)
My Design
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Great effort but the competition has closed now lol
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have you got the bat yet?
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I believe this may be a case of fraud, do be careful, not everyone selling bats makes them, and some don't ever have any bats to start with.
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Been speaking to the guy recently and things are now going well... should be seeing some nice bats very soon :)
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Just need your spec now mate and for some graphics to arrive.... hope the email I sent you makes sense
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Yeah just seen the email Chris - I understand what you mean and understand why, everything sounds great thanks :). To be honest I actually prefer more conservative stickers like you suggest.
I've mailed you back.