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[PedalsMcgrew]

User error? Has any one else used the bat- to get a second opinion?

I have lent the bat to 3 trusted teammates and none have been particularly enamoured with it. It picks up well and feels nice in the hand but it's the performance from the middle of the bat that is very disappointing.

[procricket]

if it's dead i will give you 50 pound for it providing there no bad cracks or shot handle

[PedalsMcgrew]

it was a redback...

I have seen many bats on that machine it better than fordhams press..

A lot of people use it Mike..

I may add i'm not one of them...

Dammit 

Hang on a sec........how do you know that? Do you work for Serious in a kind of 'Rain man' role, their walking, talking filing system? 

[procricket]

No mate i do not work there

Is the bat for sale.....

[PedalsMcgrew]

So, the question is what do I do? Having lent the bat to a few teammates, none of whom gave it anymore than a 'meh' do I accept that it's just not a great bat or that it doesn't suit mine or their style of play or do I persevere in the hope that a few more innings and, possibly, a lot more knocking in will turn it into the bat I hope it is?

I doubt very much that the machine killed it as I had done at least a dozen nets and an entire season with it before and it was certainly no worse after it went on it.

The bat might be for sale.....it depends on what I can get to replace it with......money is tight at the moment...!

[procricket]

I could hand knock it in for you using my vl Mallett..

Have you oiled it got any pictures of it

[SillyShilly]

VL mallet or LV mallet?

[procricket]

either way round mate makes no odds i guess your right Dom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignum_vitae

as you know Shills

[PedalsMcgrew]

It was oiled and 'ready to go' when I received it and at the end of the season I removed the scuff, oiled it again then put another scuff on it.

I'd be happy to let you have a look at it and try and get it going better than I obviously can...!

[Johnny]

Willow is a natural substance, and I think every now and again, the experts get it wrong and pick a cleft that doesn't perform

[Hads45]

Youve done 3 sets of knocking in (From the company, yourself and the machine). You have also used the bat for a season. You do not need any more knocking in and you didnt even really require the machine knocking in.

If using it for a season didnt knock it in then what will. Knocking in also really doesnt make the bat better. It should strengthen the wood to prevent a bit of cracking etc but it wont turn a average bat into a good bat. The fact is youve got a dud bat and that can happen in any company at any price point.

[PedalsMcgrew]

I think, as Talisman has stated earlier, the issue is with the bat not hardening up at all. Now, maybe that is to do with my knocking in/machine knocking in and if that is the case then fine, it's my fault, you live and learn but I have knocked in a great many bats in the last 20 odd years and have had good service and life out of all of them (apart from a Kook bubble I bought to be like Graham Thorpe that was a plank and broke within 3 months!)

I'm going to persevere with it for the time being but if it hasn't hardened up by the end of May then I think I will have to cut my losses and look for something else as there is nothing quite so soul destroying as perfectly timing a sweet off drive and it not having the power to reach the boundary! Although I may not be the greatest batsman in the world I have been perfectly capable of clearing the boundaries with ease with other bats.

@Hads45

Your right mate, but I am still having trouble believing that to be the case! If that is true then I certainly don't blame anyone but I am at pains to basically discard the bat and move onto something else without knowing for sure that it's the bat and not me!

[Talisman]

I would not waste any more time on it, let it go and get another this week that will live up to your standards, some bats just do this and that is because we will never fully know every single aspect of a cleft, just get better at guessing.

Take up Procricket's offer and I'll take the money as a deposit on a new bat

[procricket]

Can we see a picture of the said bat please

[Cover_Drive]

One of my club mate bought 300+ Pounds bat, Kookaburra Blade 950 and trust me we knocked it and played with it enough and believe me or not that bat doesn't ping at all! I myself tested few times it would just not ping even the middle won't ping. So as Mike said it happens and we can't know every aspect of the cleft