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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #30 on: December 15, 2011, 12:29:22 PM »

This is the one I use...I think it's a Puma





I haven't tried that one yet but from what I have heard from people that one is quite effective and good.

By the way, I agree with all of your points made in previous page and this page :)
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #31 on: December 15, 2011, 12:32:03 PM »

One question I have always wondered is, when we pay extra from a maker to have our bat knocked in for us how much time do they actually spend doing it? I can't really imagine any maker having the facilities or the time to be able to knock in so many bats by hand properly. Is it money well spent or are we better off saving the money and doing it ourselves? I appreciate this will differ from maker to maker but it's still something that interests me....

Exactly, I wonder the same.

I think it is worth saving the money and knocking it ourselves, as Number4 said you get to know your bat where sweetspot is etc etc
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2011, 12:34:37 PM »

One other interesting topic has been 'overknocking'; we have discussed this a few times in the past in a few different places. Personally I feel that unless the willow is brutally overdried and soft pressed, and I mean brutally, it will be extremely difficult to overknock a bat. What do you guys feel?
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #34 on: December 15, 2011, 12:55:02 PM »

One question I have always wondered is, when we pay extra from a maker to have our bat knocked in for us how much time do they actually spend doing it? I can't really imagine any maker having the facilities or the time to be able to knock in so many bats by hand properly. Is it money well spent or are we better off saving the money and doing it ourselves? I appreciate this will differ from maker to maker but it's still something that interests me....

[Erm very little] has been my (limited) experience. I had a pre-prepared M&H further knocked in at my local sports shop, and no way was it done for as much as what I'd like.

To that extent I've always preffered the idea of a machine knocking a bat in. What sort of nutter is willing to knock a bat in for the recommended howevermany hours for £30?! At least with a machine you know it's been worked on for a long time consistently.

Didn't someone on here have an idea of using a chisel function on a drill to knock a bat in  :D? One of my mind-wandering thoughts is based on possible knocking in automations (like the chisel function on a drill), though haven't as yet come up with anything!

I do appreciate the more modern distinction appear in bat descriptions now which admits "knocked in" does not (at all) mean fully ready to play
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #35 on: December 15, 2011, 01:00:50 PM »

I think Bellingham and Smith or maybe Spyder use a knocking in 'machine' like that. A dirty great jack hammer thing with a mallet attachment on the end! It's definitely an SA brand. I remember seeing a video on their website with them using it.
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #36 on: December 15, 2011, 01:04:54 PM »

Serious Cricket have that machine for knocking too.
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #37 on: December 15, 2011, 01:07:48 PM »

As do CJI
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #38 on: December 15, 2011, 01:08:15 PM »

I think Bellingham and Smith or maybe Spyder use a knocking in 'machine' like that. A dirty great jack hammer thing with a mallet attachment on the end! It's definitely an SA brand. I remember seeing a video on their website with them using it.

Yeah it looks like the leg of a table in the jack hammer... I think is also a pic of them boning the blade...Bone looks like a bloody Elephants shin bone...haha
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #39 on: December 15, 2011, 01:25:00 PM »

Number4 mate a question for you, I also rub edges to bath tub but do you do that for bats which come with scuff sheet on them as well or only for bats without scuff sheet? [thats what I do, only without scuff sheet).
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #40 on: December 15, 2011, 01:32:46 PM »

Eh? Rub edges on bath tub?
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2011, 01:35:37 PM »

Eh? Rub edges on bath tub?

Two post earlier explained them :)

I guess its like pressing, although its specifically presses the edges.
When you knock in the edges, you can miss bits but rolling them on a bath is a firm surface and repeating the process helps to keep edges intact.

Thought it was pretty self explanatory...Roll the edges on the edge of the bath tub to round them off and harden them
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #42 on: December 15, 2011, 02:07:19 PM »

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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #43 on: December 15, 2011, 02:27:25 PM »

Just picking up on Tims point. I see quite a few fairly new bats for sale on here. These haven't matured as yet. As well as knocking in, bats require playing in too. All this takes time. A bat is at its peak when you start getting small surface cracks along the grains etc. ie well played in. They are the ones to go for as they are usually dirt cheap too.
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Re: Knock your bat in properly....
« Reply #44 on: December 15, 2011, 04:43:31 PM »

Interesting points, i think older bats probably feel good as they are soft but this doesnt mean they are the best performing.

Newer bats will feel harder but will likely have more punch to them.

I'd say after the first couple hundred runs or so is when a bats in its prime from my experience.
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