I dont live in UK, but personally I dont know why anyone would bother with custom brands if I could get to Asads. Going through a shop and sorting through bats like the ones above, is 1) Far more safe in getting a good bat, as you get to see it, and hit it,... and 2) gives you so much more variety.
we had a customer who travelled all the way from derby to pick up 3 CA bats and according to him he has never seen such a nice variety of quality bats. will be posting photos soon of 2nd delivery of GN
I'm sure hit4six will agree that it would have been easy to walk away with 10 top notch bats, and still feel that there were others you wanted!
I agree with that so much that I even enquired about taking a Newbery b52 SPS off Asads hands, until he told me it was yours Pete!