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[Nickauger]

Has anyone had any bad experiences with big kahunas. I've had two now. One which has cracked at the toe, and the other which had a huge chunk fly out of the bottom, about 1 x 6 inches. Is it bad batting, bad preparation or bad willow. Kookaburra have replaced it once but not sure if they will again. It's a shame cos its a great stick. If they do replace it again, what should I do to stop it happening again?

Thanks guys x

[Whispering Death]

thanks for the kiss!!

if they do replace it - i'd sell it on ebay and then put the money towards a h4l or saf!

[jonpinson]

Very hard to say unless you give us some details. I know alot of the kookaburras are 'pre prepared' but I'd never trust a bat to be match ready unless I had knocked it in.

If you play with concrete balls or face alot of yorkers, or play on an poor artificial pitch, or regularly hit shots on the toe, any of these can break a bat.

I've not heard of it being a problem with that particular model, so it seems the only other similarity in both cases is you..

[Nickauger]

Haha, yeah I thought that might be it. I'm never sure when to finish knocking in although all winter seemed long enough lol. One was from hitting a low full toss on the toe, trying to hit it too hard, the other was digging out a yorker (it looked Luke a bit of rotten wood after). Surely that's not right though? Might be a place it on eBay job and get one off here that has the hard work done to it already. And you can have the kiss on me, in fact have another one.

x

[Whispering Death]

thanks mate - right back at ya xx

do you ever find that you accidentally send kisses to your mates by accident becuase you always send them to your misses?

[jonpinson]

Get a room.

[Nickauger]

Sorry Jon, you can have one too if you want?

[PedalsMcgrew]

thanks mate - right back at ya xx

do you ever find that you accidentally send kisses to your mates by accident becuase you always send them to your misses?

Sadly I have been guilty of this heinous crime twice in the last week. One to a good mate the other to my boss.......

[Nickauger]

Haha, I fear we may well get shouted at for being wildly off topic. X

[Whispering Death]

thats enough of the kisses now xox

[19reading87]

I've just brought a kahuna.... Great news!

[Nickauger]

I've just brought a kahuna.... Great news!

I imagine its me mate to be honest. Can't imagine they would keep making them if there was a problem with them. Poor prep and rubbish batting seems to be the culprit. Has got one helluva middle in it, with a lovely pickup.

[19reading87]

Let's hope so bud

[mattcoll12491]

I know of 3 out of 4 big kahunas that have broken, all bought at about the same time. Mine and a team mates had a chunk of the toe fly off, and another's handle broke. The handle was fixable. but the chunks weren't as mine splintered in pre season nets (some may say over dry willow, but I had put 3/4 coats of oil on it before pre-season nets). The other one is still flying

[19reading87]

Mine is just a kahuna so hopefully will be fine however a friends broke like all the others 2 weeks ago....