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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: peplow on January 02, 2011, 10:57:27 PM
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Help!
I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!
The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...
Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?
I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...
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Help!
I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!
The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...
Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?
I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...
If you had a back up my advice would be to get a Laver. Why not, you want one, so go for it.
But if you are to be reliant on one bat next season I'd consider getting a couple from over here, isn't going to cost you any more.
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Mate I've got one bat for the season for the second in a row. It's hard :(
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Help!
I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!
The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...
Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?
I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...
I've been thinking similar. I have sold 3 bats in the last week or so. No doubt I will buy one or two more before the season starts though!
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your not soft, probably sensible ;) reckon i may do the same. Ordered a new H4L, as long as i like it i think i may keep it as a lone bat. My hunts has been sold (i think) and reckon my kook will go well on ebay now. will save me alot of money!
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You've gone soft mate.......
Although if your dead set on just a laver I'd wait til you get out to Nz and get one measured up who knows you could have another growth spurt by then ;) also youl get to look at all the profiles and decide which you like the most..... And maybe even select the cleft for your dream bat.....
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Or.......you could take a super-duper lightweight cleft over in your luggage, take it to James (and obviously impress him with your cricketing knowledge) and get him to knock you up a bat while you wait and hopefully at a cheaper price!!!
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hmmm shout and a half my shilly!
Will be considering anything and everything in the next month, and will hopefully come to a sensible (although i very much douby it!) decision...
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Probably sensible Mr P. Will have a little rota going on next season. Have 2 match bats of similar weight, a heavier net bat and a middling bat... :|- It is true you can only use one in the middle, so it might be worth getting something special from Laver. Maybe take a blank over that you find cheap in case you can't get your bat made up that quickly: though I am sure you will find something special in Oz.. :)
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Get James to make something in front of you.
A Lammington and a Tui should seal the deal for you.
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Where can you get these super duper lightweight clefts from?
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hmmm shout and a half my shilly!
Will be considering anything and everything in the next month, and will hopefully come to a sensible (although i very much douby it!) decision...
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I seriously doubt he will do this as a reputable batmaker he makes with his own clefts and suspect that all he will do
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Where can you get these super duper lightweight clefts from?
Put any cleft in a airing cupboard leave for 6 weeks the mosture level will be down and hey presto or ask James for a extra dried cleft.
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I'm guessing these don't last as long?
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Probably a conversation already covered in another thread, but this extended drying process in airing cupboard is surely going to take away more sap (which acts like glue for the whole bat) than is advised and hence the bat will almost certainly be more vulnerable and likely to break. However, i'm sure there is an art to reducing moisture once that bat has been made and getting timings correct so that the bat retains enough moisture is the tricky part.
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Yeah If I was having the one bat I wouldn't want an overdried one!
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I had two bats last year and broke them both before the end of June!! So frustrating. The temptation to buy 4 or 5 for this year so I definitely know I have enough. You want to have at least one in reserve that you use/have used because it can be really off putting trying to use someone elses bat. Likely to get out early on with a different bat.
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The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...
James should be in today, so good idea to drop him a reminder.
My take would be to have 2 bats:
1) Buy a M&H Amplus (if you are going to be playing in Aus)
2) Whilst holidaying in Aus, either try out SCat or have James make one for you and send it over to Aus (cheaper postage and jsut in case you are not happy easier to return!)
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Lots of chat about these amplus but haven't seem any pics as yet ??? Am I the only one?
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Yes
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So where are they then??? I can cast my eye over them then for my amusement :)
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James should be in today, so good idea to drop him a reminder.
My take would be to have 2 bats:
1) Buy a M&H Amplus (if you are going to be playing)
Must admit those Amplus's look amazing.....
If I was going to Oz I think I'd definitely be paying mr millichamp a visit for a SCAT
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Lots of chat about these amplus but haven't seem any pics as yet ??? Am I the only one?
They're on the m&h website mate very similar to the gt IMO only bigger
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are they only available in 1 grade @£350?
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Just looks like a chunkier version of the harlequin (?) to me
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A bigger, concaved Harlequin
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Looks like it as they are made from oversized clefts which will demand a higher price tag...£304 in globe in Bristol apparently
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I've seen one in the flesh, interesting shape but not one I like or could see many using.
Then again many said that about another certain design of bat!
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Just looks like a chunkier version of the harlequin (?) to me
Bang-on Tom. High to mid middle but according to Rod, will hit the ball well even low down due to the amount of wood on the bat. Must appreciate the size and pick-up on the Amplus and the Distinction
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Yeh those oars will never catch on Tom ;) might have a look tomorrow if I get time at them, seem distinctions and wouldn't mind trying one....think amplus will be too high a middle for Bristol pitches
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Come on chaps, apparantly this new Amplus is used by many pros. Combine that with a high price tag and it simply has to be the next big thing on everyones want list!
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i will have to put my prices up for my monsters there from my own cut oversized clefts ...
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Yeh if there are only so many oversized clefts going gotta charge a premium for them!!
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The harlequins are pretty concaved as it is.... Says the amplus only use select light weight clefts... They start off in heavier weights tho 2.10 as opposed to 2.7
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thats the biggest problem ,more wood = extra weight ,with the high middle and counter balance, don't see them getting many under 2.12
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A problem I'm constantly battling....
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*tumbleweed*
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I agree.... I've seen your 4lb monster remember :)
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thats the biggest problem ,more wood = extra weight
Agreed. But achieving the best balance and lightest possible pick-up with or without a counterbalance is the key. LIke I said the bats have a excellent pick-up
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thats the biggest problem ,more wood = extra weight ,with the high middle and counter balance, don't see them getting many under 2.12
Start at a dead weight of 2.9 apparently but mostly 2.10 onwards
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I agree.... I've seen your 4lb monster remember :)
What you two do in your own time is best left to yourselves!
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oops ! that came out wrong! :(
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i did show it around the table! :-[
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Okay. Back to the topic....
Sam, you are not going soft, just becoming wiser with your finances :)
Hope you can restrict yourself to jsut 1 bat (worst case 2 bats)
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Start at a dead weight of 2.9 apparently but mostly 2.10 onwards
they have to be finishing them at around 2.6/2.7 before stringing,grip and stickers ,good luck
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I agree, and also the bigger the profile, the more that has to be taken away from somewhere else. Then you end up with a huge shape but with very little wood behind it (a la L&W or Fusions) which makes for a very unforgiving profile.
I've always desired a huge bat, and have used things like Jokers, but the I've found many to simply be just too heavy. i really can't use anything bigger than a 2.10, and I find that a bloody good batmaker can make you something reasonably chunky without too much concaving for that weight.