Butterfly Willow Bats - What are your thoughts?
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Butterfly Willow - Yay or Nay?

Make the best bats
Belong in the wood burner
Good - but overhyped/priced
Purely cosmetic
Inferior to clean higher graded willow
Value option, bargains out there
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Gurujames

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Re: Butterfly Willow Bats - What are your thoughts?
« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2021, 09:40:52 PM »
Quote from: Maverick06 on March 22, 2021, 09:13:53 PM
So who makes the best butterfly bats? If I have to take a punt, who shall I go with?
I’ve had a number of butterfly’s and the advice I would give is go to a small maker as they will take as much care over it as they would a G1+++++.
The big boys may well give the lower grades to the less experienced to practise on.
I’ve had great butterfly’s from:
Aldred
Vulcan
Red Ink


Planks from
MSR
Kookaburra

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Re: Butterfly Willow Bats - What are your thoughts?
« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2021, 09:49:35 PM »
I have a Chase and a Keeley butterfly, they are both magnificent. The chase was £75, the Keeley £250 (but it has a clean face, the stain is on the back). I also had an MSR butterfly which was dreadful.


I would second the suggestion of finding a local maker, although the Robinsons ones look brilliant.

Just remember you will need to give them a few coats of oil. Otherwise they can feel hard and rubbish. The oil really makes a difference.
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Re: Butterfly Willow Bats - What are your thoughts?
« Reply #47 on: March 23, 2021, 07:46:53 AM »
Quote from: Maverick06 on March 22, 2021, 09:13:53 PM
So who makes the best butterfly bats? If I have to take a punt, who shall I go with?
Nice and easy 😀 you'll be spending much more money finding the right one, it ain't so simples!
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Re: Butterfly Willow Bats - What are your thoughts?
« Reply #48 on: June 01, 2023, 09:19:44 AM »
IMO a butterfly cleft is just that. A cleft with a visual imperfection in shape of Butterfly. Like all other clefts which may or may not be visually appealing, the performance depends on individual cleft as well as how it was pressed, shaped etc. Does the stain gives it extra strength? Yes but does it make the bat performance better. NO.
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