My Brand New Chase 175 Beluga£204.99 - 9-10 almost straight grains with no heartwood - 2lb 10ozI decided to take a look at these bats for myself down at Fordham Sports and I was so impressed by it that I decided to buy it. The particular one I have has surprisingly not got an exaggerated oval handle which Initially I thought I would prefer, yet it feels just right. It has one of these swirl grips on it which may be influencing the degree to which I feel the oval handle. I went through about 35 bats at the shop ranging from Newbery to Salix to M&H to Puma to GN to GM to Mongoose and finally, after an hour and 20 minutes I fell for this one.
The bat specialist had his mallet out and was tapping each bat to see its response and this particular Chase outperformed some Newbery Thruxton Players and Puma 5000s. It certainly pings and I really feel if I prepare this bat well, that it should turn out to be a gun!!
Here are some pics, sorry for the poor quality of some of these, its off a blackberry 9700:
front of the bat
picture showing quite a high middle of the beluga profile
The Chase 175 looking beautiful next to my battered Kookaburra Kahuna and my borrowed GM Maxi 909
Don't think this picture does justice to how nice the grains are on this bat!
Here's a close up of the profile... you can see the bow here!
The back of the bat, showing no concaving
Another side profile showing the amazing bow and generally gorgeous profile of this bat
Modest edge width havent measured it exactly yet!!
I shall upload some more decent quality pics tomorrow! Really excited to get oiling and preparing!!
Hope people who havent been able to see these bats will benefit from this.
Jamie
oh... review to follow once prepared
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