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My New Willow....
« on: May 02, 2011, 11:30:55 AM »
With my bat breaking on Wednesday night I glued and taped it up for the weekend. I arranged to meet Mike this morning and he said he would bring a few bats for me to look at.

I arrived at Tesco car park Dorchester this morning, it was hard getting up after the first weekend of league cricket! Mike arrived and opened up his boot. I had a few bats to look and and settled on one. He then stickered it up and put an anti-scuff on. Then talked to Mike for a while and he sure knows his stuff, also got an idea of how busy he is!

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This was a blank one Mike had with him, 2lbs 7oz 3/4 on his scales and now on mine with stickers/grip/scuff it is 2lbs 9/10oz. It has a slightly longer middle than my other and has no concaving (which is good!). It has 13 grains and a strip of heartwood on the inside edge. The pick up is very good and it seems very responsive off the mallet.

Here and the pictures











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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2011, 11:35:38 AM »
Looks great, no concaving is the way to go. I wish I didn't live so far away from all these bats, I'd love to check out what Mike's got in stock.
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2011, 11:50:25 AM »
Looks top notch mate, hope its a good replacement for your old one :)
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2011, 11:55:53 AM »

I keep hearing about Mike meeting up with young lads in dodgy carparks and tbh im getting quite worried......

nice bit of wood there fella
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2011, 12:12:27 PM »
The second half of your comment is quite worrying too tbh canners

Lovely bat Liam, hope you get some big runs with it  8)
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2011, 02:59:41 PM »
nice bat, love the profile. Is it knocked in? Edge looks pretty meaty.
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2011, 03:13:12 PM »
Mike does like to meet us in car parks and have us stroke his wood!
But to be fair, his booty is full of glorious stuff!  ;)
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2011, 03:16:28 PM »
Quote from: petehosk on May 02, 2011, 03:13:12 PM
Mike does like to meet us in car parks and have us stroke his wood!
But to be fair, his booty is full of glorious stuff!  ;)

it is a magical boot he posseses
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2011, 03:17:26 PM »
Sorry guys, just seen in the profile picture that it looks the size of a door! That must of happened when I rotated it

The edges are only the size they are in the pic with the £2 coin around 36mm
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« Reply #9 on: May 02, 2011, 03:31:03 PM »
no I'm on my laptop the pictures look fine, the edges are 32mm and the spine is 55m
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2011, 03:35:46 PM »
you must be well stong to pick that up !!! 55m Spine  :o  :P
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2011, 03:37:30 PM »
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Looks well nice by the way
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2011, 03:38:36 PM »
Its only 2lbs 10oz! It was 2lbs 7oz without stickers grips and anti-scuff sheet
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2011, 03:44:22 PM »
Love the shape of that one.
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Re: My New Willow....
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2011, 03:53:07 PM »
Can I just check that these pictures look ok and in proportion to you guys? Think something happened with the camera settings
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