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Thick Edges and lots of concaving - The modern shape

Thin Edges with minimal concaving - the classical shape

[100 not out]

Everyone these days are fixated with edge size, when i sit back in my arm chair with a cup of cocoa and reminisce of the bats i have had, (and i have to say i have seen and tried most profiles), the bats with your bog standard edges and no (or minimal) concaving have served me better. At the end of the day, the amount of wood ( or volume) will be the same in both type of bats. Why would someone want to, in their right mind move wood from the spine to the edges. I personally feel this profile whilst being visually attractive actually detracts from performance.

So i want you to do the same, and think back to the bats that served you well and consider the profile and vote accordingly. I suppose this is only relevant for people who have tried both profile types. It will be interesting to see results. We are all different but i would expect to see the classical doing well.

[roco]

I prefer big edge 35+ no concaving as at weight I use it's possible but if I had to choose would go thin edge no concaving as like my meat where it's needed

[Joe]

I like medium edges and a small amount of concaving as seen on 97 n.o.'s h4l. A happy compromise.

[100 not out]

You must be a big lad Roco.

A follow up question would be do you still use the profile that you voted for. If not, why not??

Could participants please specify.

[Joe]

I voted for classical profile, although I wouldn't choose either but if I had too it would be the classical. I like the h4l profiles, medium edges with a little bit of concaving, but not as much as the GN legend etc.

[Ayrtek Cricket]

I use a 2.12 with 30mm edges very little concaving...having big edges and heavy concaving to get the bat to a lightweight will mean a smaller middle size IMO

[roco]

I'm not what you would call small as I'm in the gayle build just a little bigger

I still prefer as little concaving as possible unless the batmaker says it needs a little to balance it out as that's where you need wood

[thedon]

I was under the impression that larger edges will give you a more forgiving, but less concentrated middle. Best bats I've used were an sg cobra and gm hero 909 which had  medium sized edges. Middles were very forgiving.

[Joe]

I was under the impression that larger edges will give you a more forgiving, but less concentrated middle. Best bats I've used were an sg cobra and gm hero 909 which had  medium sized edges. Middles were very forgiving.

They will but the more concaving, the less forgiving it is. If a bat's concaved then the middle will be as good as a non-concaved bat but everywhere else will be poor (think about it) but a bat with no concaving and if will still go better if you don't hit it down the middle of the bat.

[Buzz]

and yet newbery have bought out a bat with normal edges, no concaving and no spine...

personally I am not that bothered, I have bats of both styles and I get out with both!

[FattusCattus]

I'm not what you would call small as I'm in the gay build just a little bigger

I need wood

SNIGGER!!

[PedalsMcgrew]

Thin edges and a little concaving to get a nice high spine (Which is probably just a visual preference really!)

All of my favourite bats have been shaped like this going back to my Mjolnir from a few years ago, against which I measure every other bat I get..

I don't look at the size of the edges on a stick and think, Wow! 40+ mm edges that must mean it's a gun. I tend to think, 'I bet if they had shifted some of that weight to the middle it would be a gun....' 

Looking at the results of the poll so far it would seem a lot of us feel the same way! SO why has everyone got so excited about the Laver Ultra's then?





 

[PM7]

I remember someone had a H4L Hattori profile bat with thinner edges and it looked a lovely mix of modern and traditional profiles. Whatever happened to that bat as it was for sale?

[100 not out]

We need a sample of 30+ to get an idea

[Ayrtek Cricket]

Forum trends has led to bigger edges being popular and ultra showed the extreme of this and laver showed what could be done when taking it to the limits!