Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: keysersolze on March 09, 2010, 06:58:32 PM
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Hi boys and girls this is just a bit of fun for the older bat makers out there. As i doubt if some of you younger guys would have every seen this bat shape before. It was donated to the disabled cricket team down here in Devon and was in a bit of a state. So i stripped it down and sanded it back to the bare wood and put a toe guard on it. And just because the toe guard is a kookaburra it does necessarily make it a kook.
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Ps thats a 1 pence coin balanced on the bat edge.
So come on can you guess the bats manufacturer and model just by its shape?
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no idea :(
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A gunn and moore purist?
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My moneys on Crown of Dewsbury.
Could be anyone though!
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Nah guys it is quite old and doubt if many remember it if at all!!!! Just a bit of harmless fun for the bat makers out there etc. I reckon Norb might get it!! And i wish it was a purist it would solve a headache for me.!!!!
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GRAY NICS
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Is that scoops in the back? (either side of the spine)
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The kookaburra toe guard looks factory fitted? Although I am not old enough to know traditional shape kooks
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senior counties test 1989-1994
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or even a sp
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craig i was thinking the old dynadrive before the new old one if you get my drift
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I think about 94 is on the right track and i put the toe guard on yesterday a kinda hobby of mine we get some old banged up bats donated for the disabled cricketers who cant afford to buy new so i am sand them down and do the best i can to make them like new and make sure they get a good home with disabled cricketers who love their bats and cricket.
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And it was used in test match cricket by a national captain. And that about as far as i can go!!!
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Hunts county
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powerspot???
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stuart surridge turbo???????
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Nah way of he mark!!! Lets see if Norb can get it and then i will let you all know!! A little bit of the profile has been rounded out by the sanding down but not much!!!
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GN Powerspot a la Mike Atherton? I loved that bat back in the day
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Nope but it is definately from way back then!!!!
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alfred evens special
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Nah fella but i am learning here as i have never heard of Alfred Evens.
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Toe shape picture would help, but i will have a long shot at the original Julian did while at M&H?
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Mjolnir?
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open championship?
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keys alfred evens was a original slazenger batmaker i think he taught or had a big sway in tim keeley ways.
he also founded one of the original custom bats for the public in ACE bats from Ellend
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hell 4 your bringing back back memorys of that helmet Devon Malcolm wore
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Ok guys i will put you out of your misery it was and is an original Ricky Ponting Kookaburra ridge back. I had never evene heard of it before i saw it but i renovated it best i could and put a mallet on it tonight and hell it the mallet just flies of it!!!
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Nice, the ridgeback was one of my first junior bats..Loved it size 5. I gave it to a kid in Jamaica
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Is it? That was the first new bat I ever bought! Well it was a kookaburra RidgeBack not sure if it was an RP tho . . .
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Loved the stickers aswell
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Yeah its Ponting Ridge back and you guys can educate me when were they made1990 onwards or what? It has a lovely pick up and is featherlight and the grain looks awfull with a massive strip of heartwood on one side but its a beauty to wield.
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Mine was quite thin but like you said great pick up, great bat..would probably put off the modern day player (no bow, small edges etc)
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they had the white and red little striped sticker on it if i remember right
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You can still see a few around especially if you google it. this one was had stickers just like this one if you follow the link http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Kookaburra-Ridgeback-Ricky-Ponting-200-Cricket-Bat-/260547111745 and yeah very thin edges but its funny we kinda like it as its so easy to wield and it gives you great bat to ball speed especially if you are a back foot player.
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that bats is after 1995 for sure mate not the first generation kookaburra stickers on it
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I had one when i was 12 if i remember which made it 1993/1994 . . . as Graham Thrope used one (he was my idol til i read his book . . . winging p***k! haha). Yeah it was '93 as he scored a 100 on debut against the aussies in 1993!