Custom Bats Cricket Forum
Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Newbery => Topic started by: marsbug on February 15, 2022, 08:14:33 AM
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I was just wondering if anybody had seen, or used, this Bat Builder custom bat service from Newbery. The website was a bit clunky for me, and the price seemed hidden until I added a bat to the basket (and then removed!).
https://newbery.co.uk/products/bat-builder-custom-bat
Not sure if they do it for everyone, but it seems like some get a mock up and cleft photo for their choice.
https://twitter.com/Newbery_Cricket/status/1488954192928690176?s=20&t=B4d_OYlj_9e8p6urOmA1lA
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This is their second go round at this kind of thing, seems to be the same people 'buying' them as last time. Do they still offer the special choice of having your bat pressed badly?
edit - they do! Fantastic, I've always wanted a bat pressed so it's simultaneously 'game ready' but also with 'a higher chance the bat will break'.
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It all looks very clever but I've never been sure what it offers above and beyond what you'd get by going to a decent batmaker and discussing what you want.
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Well lets say its been done before! However this lets you see much more about the finished bat...if you ever buy one at such ridiculous prices!!
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£799.99? Come off it aha.
Would love to know what they're paying whoever it's outsourced to at the moment as I bet it isn't even close to £800 (there's been a few!)
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Perhaps have a look at the thread below before parting with £800?
Then use one of the batmakers on here.
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£100 difference depending what stickers you pick, superb!
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£100 difference depending what stickers you pick, superb!
My stickers were expensive thats thats something else
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£100 difference depending what stickers you pick, superb!
Doesn't this apply to bat-world more generally?
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Doesn't this apply to bat-world more generally?
Not from the same company for the same bat
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Doesn't this apply to bat-world more generally?
Something something New Balance something something Slazenger :D
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Just had a look at their prices,,,wow
And still showing Paul making bats in his garage, bet he loves that,,,I thought they’d long since parted ways
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Just had a look at their prices,,,wow
And still showing Paul making bats in his garage, bet he loves that,,,I thought they’d long since parted ways
I believe he only did the finishing and he got someone in to do that
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This is their second go round at this kind of thing, seems to be the same people 'buying' them as last time. Do they still offer the special choice of having your bat pressed badly?
edit - they do! Fantastic, I've always wanted a bat pressed so it's simultaneously 'game ready' but also with 'a higher chance the bat will break'.
I don't know who makes them now, but given they were offering different types of pressing at a time when Paul Aldred was making them and was very clear that there was no such thing, either they were paying a bat maker to make a bad bat, or they simply disregarded the option you selected. Neither reflects well on the brand.
Sad to see where they are now. Even when I started playing they were a brand that was looked up to
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Thanks everyone, I didn't know most of the backstory or prior attempts at this sort of thing, other than what I'd picked up from some of the older threads on here.
I don't want to go over old ground, as I am still catching up after coming back to cricket after such a long break, but Newbery bats seemed to be well respected (and good too I think - my Mjolnir was great, but I had little to compare to) in the late 90s/early 2000s around my way.
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Newbery bats seemed to be well respected (and good too I think - my Mjolnir was great, but I had little to compare to) in the late 90s/early 2000s around my way.
So it will be a Keeley you are looking for?
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Ha! Well, I have been looking actually :D
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Made Newbery bats in the era you mention.
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I had a go at this and the price came out @ £799 - wow
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Shocking prices
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I had a go at this and the price came out @ £799 - wow
The stickers changing the cost is absolutely ridiculous. Bizarre that this is the same company that launched the careers of so many excellent batmakers...
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For all intents and purposes it is not the same Company. Different location, different batmaker, different owners.
For those of us that grew up with them and visited the shop inside the Hove ground it’s best to remember the innovation and quality and quietly weep to ourselves :)
As a youngster, walking out to bat with a Mjolnir I actually thought it does not get any better than this!
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It's a real shame, there's a few older Newbery bats kicking about with the older members at my club and they really are lovely. The name still carries a lot of weight so it's a bit sad to see it being traded on like that.
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Their Legacy and new Velo range look to be TK made?
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Their Legacy and new Velo range look to be TK made?
Crikey! What are basing this on?
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Pictures and video.
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Their Legacy and new Velo range look to be TK made?
I dont think so, someone copying his style!
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This made me first think it was a possibility.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZpmQURlJWX/?utm_medium=copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZpmQURlJWX/?utm_medium=copy_link)
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Deep CBF!
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Their Legacy and new Velo range look to be TK made?
So your looking at the shoulders and how theyre finished to help the grip sit nicely?
Thats not how TK does it, look also at the fitted toe guard, this definately isnt TK's work
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This made me first think it was a possibility.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZpmQURlJWX/?utm_medium=copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZpmQURlJWX/?utm_medium=copy_link)
Not a Keeley made bat.
Uneven springs in the handle and an atrocious job of putting the grip on too.
That is not the sound of perfection.
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Imagine spending £450 on a bat and it turns up with the grip like that hahaha
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That grip. Cringe.
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Now charging £1000 for a custom. :o