When I got one of those, I removed to stickers straight away - the two benefits of that are that the stickers are not very nice, and it also shows off the beautiful grains. But also got it rehandled with newbery handle - as the AS handles tend to be poor quality (which is a shame as the blades can be excellent!!)
This tends to be a lingering issue with almost all Asian bats. Thru a friend, I acquired a used SS TON L.E. from Saurav Ganguly. The handle cracked within a year, send to Gray Nicolls UK for re-handling, the bat is stuck in customs for the last 9 months in London. (long story).
Anyway, missed out on winning Shahid Afridi's boom boom bat auction. It went for a mere NZ $650.00, my max was $600 and missed on bidding due to being at work !! Oh well.
How about you Pete? Got your hands onto anything interesting lately?