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B3 knocking in time
« on: January 28, 2020, 10:48:24 PM »
Hi all, hoping some of the owners of B3s can give me a bit of an idea about how long they spent knocking in their bats from new.

Have picked up a bat from the B3 sale site for a teammate (although given how nice it looks, he may have to find another one...). Only given it a brief once over with the mallet but it feels very hard, especially given it has had an hour of work done at B3 on the edges and toe.

Not averse to knocking it in properly but a rough idea of time would be helpful, cheers!
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2020, 11:24:52 PM »
Quote from: Jimbo on January 28, 2020, 10:48:24 PM
Hi all, hoping some of the owners of B3s can give me a bit of an idea about how long they spent knocking in their bats from new.

Have picked up a bat from the B3 sale site for a teammate (although given how nice it looks, he may have to find another one...). Only given it a brief once over with the mallet but it feels very hard, especially given it has had an hour of work done at B3 on the edges and toe.

Not averse to knocking it in properly but a rough idea of time would be helpful, cheers!

Mine have always arrived feeling hard pressed and taken a while to open up. At least a full winter in the nets before they start going nicely, if not a little longer.

I don't mind this. Once they do open up they've got stacks of runs in them.
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2020, 11:45:51 PM »
Cheers @SLA, as I say it is currently intended for a teammate but if he doesn't get on with it I'd have it back in a second. Get the knocking in started ASAP then!
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2020, 02:15:48 AM »
If it’s hard, you don’t need to knock it in much. Make sure the edges are nicely rounded and the toe area is well worked on. Once that’s done, if you bash the ‘hard’ middle to ‘open it up’ you’re effectively knocking runs out of the bat.
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2020, 08:37:18 AM »
Not surprisingly I've had a few B3's.

In my experience they don't take very long to knock in and almost come ready to play. Give it a couple of hours of mallet time and then take it into the nets and use it against old balls.

You don't have to worry too much with B3's and knocking in.
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2020, 08:53:06 AM »
Sound a bit like GM bats, they have a sound and feel of being hard but they still ping well early on in my opinion. Has had been said I normally use mine in the nets for a few months or weekly over winter nets and after maybe 5/6 hours of sensible netting they are fully match ready. A lad at my club has a B3 and he wanted to get rid of it as he said it was to hard but after convincing him to use all last winter by the time April came around he couldn’t stop telling everyone how good it was so seems to take a little while to get rid of the hard sound/feel
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2020, 08:57:35 AM »
Thanks all, that's a bit more reassuring then. Just sounded very different off the mallet compared to my last two bats so was a bit concerned but sounds like it's just to do with how different makers press their bats.
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Re: B3 knocking in time
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2020, 09:22:37 AM »
From my experience they don't need much time with the mallet as the hard pressing means that you don't see any seam marks on the blade from hitting a ball but they do need plenty of time in the nets to open up and reach peak performance.

I have a new one I am playing in at the moment.  A spent 90 minutes with the mallet on the toe and edges.  Now I am playing it in againsy a bowling machine first then will use it against bowlers using old match balls.

I haven't found them to be bats that are ready to go straight from the packet.  Perhaps unsurprisingly give their origins, they are much more like G&M where a good winter's work is needed to get them match ready
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