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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Stephen170 on July 21, 2021, 01:44:32 PM

Title: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Stephen170 on July 21, 2021, 01:44:32 PM
What does CRC mean please? :)
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Kulli on July 21, 2021, 06:05:20 PM
Never heard of it, got any links to where you read it, typo?
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Stephen170 on July 21, 2021, 06:17:50 PM
Never heard of it, got any links to where you read it, typo?

It is from UZI sports site.  I've emailed Vickey  and Andrew at Salix and asked them what it means.
Made from finest quality Grade 1 English Willow
Flat-Flat (contemporary) face profile
Standard shoulder line
Full backed
very large driving area
Substantial edges.
Deep, long bow.
Unique Salix CRC oval handle
For versatile, talented players
Highest level of English artisan batmaking: individually handmade by Salix.
CNC free: individual in-house pressing and processing from cleft to bat.
Bat Vax toe dipped: especially developed natural, plant based sealer to help prevent water ingress, sealing end grain to protect against cracks.
Trademark Salix angled toe and blended edges to minimise tapping and running in damage, in conjunction with the player’s care and maintenance regime.
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: ppccopener on July 21, 2021, 06:34:01 PM
Could be wrong but I think a CNC handle is an oval handle which is more rounder than a normal oval handle

So a more rounded oval handle

Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: edge on July 22, 2021, 06:19:28 AM
For versatile, talented players
Damn, no Salix for me then!
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Stephen170 on July 22, 2021, 11:59:35 AM
Damn, no Salix for me then!

I've found this at Aldred's site about CNC.  It doesn't appear to be about the handle.

CNC shaping accounts for the majority of all other UK produced cricket bats, reducing hand operated processes and individual treatment of the cleft, blade and bat, therefore making them mass produced
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: dtl2018 on July 22, 2021, 12:42:29 PM
Yeah the CNC part just means that some companies put the clefts onto CNC (computerized numerical control) machines to mass produce and replicate shapes almost perfectly every time.

As an engineer myself i'm not opposed to this technique but I guess it just takes away from the whole traditional manner of having a cricket bat made for you.
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Kulli on July 22, 2021, 01:30:55 PM
Are we sure it’s a typo for CNC, they’re not exactly next to each other on the keyboard.
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: SwissTony on July 22, 2021, 02:23:22 PM
I would think it's something to do with rubber and cane.
Compressed rubber and cane
Carved rubber and came.
Coated rubber and cane?
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Tom on July 22, 2021, 02:25:18 PM
I've found this at Aldred's site about CNC.  It doesn't appear to be about the handle.

CNC shaping accounts for the majority of all other UK produced cricket bats, reducing hand operated processes and individual treatment of the cleft, blade and bat, therefore making them mass produced
Interestingly the Aldred's Values page is almost an exact copy of Salix's
https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/ (https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/)
https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html (https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html)
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: edge on July 22, 2021, 03:40:42 PM
Interestingly the Aldred's Values page is almost an exact copy of Salix's
https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/ (https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/)
https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html (https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html)
rofl
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: SD on July 22, 2021, 04:01:46 PM
Interestingly the Aldred's Values page is almost an exact copy of Salix's
https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/ (https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/)
https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html (https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html)

A had noticed that a lot of his videos essentially parroted what he had seen Kember and James Laver saying but I hasn't realised that he was as shameless as this in cutting and pasting material from another brand 
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: golders on July 22, 2021, 04:14:11 PM
Interestingly the Aldred's Values page is almost an exact copy of Salix's
https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/ (https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/)
https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html (https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html)

Surprised Aldred doesn't mention anything in values about him making "to feel"

Ask for 2'8, receive 2'11 that feels 2'8
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Wickets-then-runs on July 22, 2021, 10:46:01 PM
could it be cork, rubber, cork as in the inserts in the handle rather than all rubber, etc?
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Kulli on July 23, 2021, 09:44:03 AM
could it be cork, rubber, cork as in the inserts in the handle rather than all rubber, etc?
As good a guess as any. Someone got a Salix to hand to check?
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Grubby on July 23, 2021, 11:04:52 AM
As good a guess as any. Someone got a Salix to hand to check?
The 3 I have are all RRR
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: ppccopener on July 23, 2021, 12:13:03 PM
could it be cork, rubber, cork as in the inserts in the handle rather than all rubber, etc?

This thread is awesome, I think you have cracked the code.

If it is right would there actually be any difference in RRR inserts in the handle or Cork Rubber Cork?

It seems such a small difference to be hardly noticeable.  :)
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: AJ2014 on July 23, 2021, 12:35:46 PM
could it be cork, rubber, cork as in the inserts in the handle rather than all rubber, etc?
To prove your point, thanks
(https://postimg.cc/62m1x0N5)
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: AJ2014 on July 23, 2021, 01:04:15 PM
This thread is awesome, I think you have cracked the code.

If it is right would there actually be any difference in RRR inserts in the handle or Cork Rubber Cork?

It seems such a small difference to be hardly noticeable.  :)
Don't know if it's only about different inserts, but gn predator has thicker handle than kronus, which has 3 cork inserts.
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Alvaro on July 23, 2021, 01:07:45 PM
Do you get royalties for shoehorning low grade GN photos into any thread that gains traction?
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Yorkershire on July 23, 2021, 03:03:10 PM
 
Interestingly the Aldred's Values page is almost an exact copy of Salix's
https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/ (https://www.aldredcricketbats.com/values/)
https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html (https://www.salixcricketbats.com/inside-salix/values.html)
:D :D :D :D :D :D :o :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Unique Salix CRC oval handle
Post by: Stephen170 on July 23, 2021, 03:06:45 PM
could it be cork, rubber, cork as in the inserts in the handle rather than all rubber, etc?

I'll take it.  I took a punt on a Salix from Ebay  and fortunately it came off.  After twenty years and three Salix bats I bought a Bradbury but  after four seasons that has decided to give up the ghost and developed a nasty crack in the bottom.  In 1996 my first Salix bat, The Royal was my first bat which cost more than £100, it was £125. This Salix is an AJK player's bat under another name.  'Exclusive to Uzi Sports  Exclusive Shape developed with the help of Master Salix bat maker Andrew Kember.'  RRP was £550 the Ebay guy bought it for £450.  He said the middle was too high for him, but I like the middle to be about 18-20 cms up the bat.  Bidding started at £250 but an offer could be made. I offered £275. It is oiled and knocked in well and it doesn't need a scuff.   It weights 2lb 8.