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[dan_nichols]

Ben and Andrew machined up some grade 4 clefts today which will be turned into rogues, here are a few of them.
They are currently not pressed and are in the region of 40-45mm edge size, which is decent for a standard cleft. Pressing will lose 1/8th of an inch - ish. So they will still be a very good size and most of the clefts have a good size/weight ratio.
Clefts pictured are right/left handed...






Pencil Lines indicate driving end.

[Beachcricket]

Lots of grains and a bit of heartwood, perfect clefts if you ask me!

Grade 4 is where the good stuff is.

[dan_nichols]

These have previously been graded as grade 3's but Wrights now supply these as grade 4's.

[SillyShilly]

Due to the amount of grains i presume? There are massive bargains to be had in the Wrights lower grades.......you just have to buy a shed load of the grade 1,2 and 3's before you can get to them though!

Will these be stickered as just the lower end models or offered up for a special forum offer?!

[dan_nichols]

Amount of heartwood yes.

These will be made up as rogues over time and find there way into many a shop. I can't say there will be any special forum offers at the moment because of the Salix commitment to shops - but possibly in the near future. Id have to check. Though if anyone is after something from Salix and can't visit the workshop then im sure something can be arranged via Ben or myself.

[espocrespo]

they look to nice for grade 4, fancy nabbing me one

[johan95]

Mods surely with the forum involvement in Salix there's a good shout for it to have a sub-section or child board in the Off the Shelf Companies bit? I reckon that would facilitate things a bit

[dan_nichols]

espo - pm me if your interested in one

[procricket]

Dan would you be willing to sell them as part mades??

[yvk3103]

Dan please empty ur inbox

[rajesh500]

I am intersted..

[jimba101]

Wow, these look great, i love heartwood on a bat. tbh i would happily pay grade 1 money for one of these.

What sorta price do you charge for them dan? very tempted!

[dan_nichols]

Just something interesting about willow grades. When Ben went to Wrights they reckon that of 1000 clefts, only 7% are likely to be grade ones. Small margin unfortunately.

[Cover_Drive]

Just something interesting about willow grades. When Ben went to Wrights they reckon that of 1000 clefts, only 7% are likely to be grade ones. Small margin unfortunately.

Mind explaining why is that mate?

[SillyShilly]

That surprises me a lot. I would have thought that 70 clefts out of 1000 would have had 5/6 straight blemish free grains! Is this a sign of poorer willow or stricter guidelines on what is classified as grade 1? I would have thought a mix of both???