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Equipment => Pads => Topic started by: Walkeruk on September 10, 2010, 07:34:26 AM
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Purchased these pads from the club I play for as they bought a load of gear from a company that went bust. The guy who went bust previously worked for Woodworm so can only assume they came from his time there.
They have the d30 technology and have heard these were the prototype. Just wondered if anyone knows anything about them? Are they decent pads? Should I keep or should i sell?
Never been used, was gonna save them until next year, but now i have my eye on the new Ayrtek. Decisions, decisions.
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I could not find any info on the woodwork site or online stockists mate. I know the d30 is used in other brand pads but these have me scratching my head.
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I thought GM now had exclusivity for the use of d30 in cricket products? These may have been a trial with the d30 before d30 themselves agreed a deal with GM? Don't like the pads myself but the d30 stuff is decent so they will probably be decent!
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I'd love to try some gear with this d30 stuff in it. Although I was under the impression GM were the only ones who were licensed to use it?
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These were done before GM, Woodworm were going to use d3o but went bust.
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d3o were trying to get their product into the cricket market by having other brands use the materials....we were approached by them when working with CCC a while back so it wouldnt suprise me if it had a small element of it in the pads. As samples they may not have gone into production as using the d3o meant a large increase in cost price ???
Its a very good material but the cost price per sq metre would make u fall off your chair! plus its not exactly light to use in any decent sized area. It will be a bright orange material if you can see it the obvious place to situate this would be behind the padding in the shins but the layers on top should offer adequate protection anyway which was why we didnt look to use it in our glove/pad designs previously.....
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That explains it. What would we do without the forum.
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id keep them mate and not use them if there rare.. prototype
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Thanks for the information.
You could say I got a good bargain as you say the d30 technology is expensive. :D
Looks like ill be keeping them to use as my training pads then.
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yeh you didnt do too badly but depends how much d3o is actually in them ??? which your not likely to discover without performing a biopsy on them
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All that prototype gear was pretty cheap for us wasn't it?
I say we perform an on the wicket open pad surgery!
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£10 for a set of new pads is a pretty decent price!
So whatever you do with them, you got a good deal. 8)
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nice Woodwork pads buddy,done well!! does anyone know who made their bats before they went bust?
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Cheers.
No Pidge, (Pro Wannabe), we wont be performing any surgey. lol. Unless you wanna buy me some Ayrtek to replace them. :D
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Awwww behave man! Would be interesting to cut them open!!
I think hunts batmakers made the very top end bats including a few for fred and pieterson but i am
Unsure about the rest as I believe they were part machined in India.
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yes woodworm bats now made in india, and probably some in pakistan as the business that owns woodworm also owns the CA brand.
for information, GM had the exclusive rights to the D30 technology but only for one year, it had been offered previously to Newbery and other manufacturers too...
think a man in irthlingborough northants makes freds puma bats, not that he's got through many this season, pity...
kp as far as i know is less fussy about his bats than a drunk brit in the red light district in amsterdam, so his could be made anywhere...
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Tell KP we have 2 good local pubs and a bat maker with a catchy name for an ex saffer in our village
I always imagined d30 pads gloves etc would have been less bulky not the best use for it in cricket I reckon but I spoke to them and got a no for supply
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yeh that was my theory..if using d3o you should be able to scale back on the other foam materials being used if its that good a product meaning less cumbersome pads/gloves etc....think the bloke was called Rich who was at d3o when we met them who thought alot of his product and himself :)
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You have got to back you own stuff buddy! This richard guy reminds me of some new kid on the block billy big (No Swearing Please) making funny cricket helmuts!! :D
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think a man in irthlingborough northants makes freds puma bats, not that he's got through many this season, pity...
The man being Robert Pack?
And Freddie is missed, so would be nice if he were to come back from injury now!
This season it's good that he didn't play for two reasons! The first being that hopefully he had things done to ensure his (HOPEFUL) future fitness. And secondly so that a certain collector of bats could get hold of one! ;)
But fingers crossed that the man gets playing again very soon!
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that's him mate, a bloody good lad...
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CA are owned by CA, Woodworm are owned by Sports HQ which has the agency for CA in the UK, although that might be changing as Sports HQ is a bargain basement outfit and although the kit they have made by Sondhi in India is good quality they are not really doing CA any favours being linked. The CA bats are very good quality and the only problem is the massive quantity of fakes being floated about.
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cheers for info the info on CA, that does make sense...
was at the sondhi factory in april, very impressive.
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The CA bats are very good quality and the only problem is the massive quantity of fakes being floated about.
You ain't kidding! :(
Shame really as the fakes will give CA a bad name!
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cheers for info the info on CA, that does make sense...
was at the sondhi factory in april, very impressive.
Sondhi are in India CA are from Pakistan?
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Not to hijack the topic but just wondering if any one knows, after seeing a video about the sondhi factory in regards to the improved working conditions, testing and quality control they have put in place. Does this reflect massively in the prices they charge to a manufacturer compared to other companies in India?
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Talisman will know more than most on that question jdask - but the answer is yes those bats are more expensive, but then it is easy to argue that it is money well spent!!
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Yer that what i was wondering. If the bigger manufactures see this good practice as worth the extra costs and if many of them get products from there or design products through them etc? Or wether they would keep costs down and use other companies, where perhaps there isn't that element of quality control.
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Although Sondhi have a very impressive factory they also subcontract out, so although you may think you're getting everything made in a brand new brilliant factory the reality could be a lot different.
It was subcontracting that caught Primark 'using' sweatshops
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They mainly do that with the balls Tom, not a lot else would go out apart from Kashmir bats.
I would say that their prices are certainly no more than anyone else, an overseas order makes serious money so it is refreshing to see that they do not work to the same level as the other manufacturers.
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I saw some low end Slazenger pads being made for them.
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You are probably right with the very bottom end kit.
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when i was there in april i didn't see any balls being made, agree with talisman that they wouldn't send anything out to sub other than some kashmir willow or lower end products.
they're a hugely impressive outfit, one of the best i saw, probably on a par with SG which was also very good.
they have their own cricket ground too.