Lazing around this afternoon chatting to the hosk and the helmet man I decided to take a trip to Woodstock as not far from me
So phoned up Jon who said anytime was fine and I was on my way,apart from all the damn horses on the road it was a fairly nice journey and was met on side of the road by Jon who ushered me into the drive by the workshop.On entering I was met with part made after part made plus a couple of clefts and finished bats plus a couple he was repairing,after a chat about what i was looking for he pulled out a couple of part mades he thought would suit to which we discussed as went for a look not to buy but the sight of all that wood turned me into a naughty boy.So we chatted away about this and that while he showed me around then inside for a nice cup of coffee provided by his locket wife then address details etc and he showed me some sample softs he had in which were very high quality with real pittards palms plus knee locators in pads and although he said he had a few tweaks to make they looked and felt very good to me even the sausage ones which is strange as I don't like sausage gloves
In the end I went with a nearly finished bat which still needed binding and all finishing sanding done plus handle tidying up which weighed 2lb15 and Jon said he will be able to keep it 2lb15 or under finished without altering shape too much so looking forward to it as it had 44/45 mm edges at the time I saw it
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