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[Red Ink Cricket]

Distinction weighs in at 2.9 and a bit with one grip. 25mm edges and approx 60 spine height. Made from a standard size grade 2 cleft so edges are slightly thinner than i would do with a oversized cleft. good pick up.

classis shape weighs in pretty much the same. no concaving. 20mm edges and approx 45mm spine. grade 3 willow

sorry about the pics.

[wilkie113]

Both look lovely mate! Distinction shape looks like a corker!

[Joe]

They look really good! Distinction looks excellent. As ever, the question I ask to everyone who has made a bat, how did you do the concaving?

[Red Ink Cricket]

think i definately need to learn to take better pics.

concaving wise i use a combination of a handful of round bottom planes and a couple of travishers. depends on how much concaving im doing

[pacman75cricket]

Laveresque?

[Red Ink Cricket]

i do have a laveresque/ michael clarke shape bat im working on but this is a distinction profile. pictures dont really do it justice

[PM7]

Bloody nice Distinction John, love that profile but cant justify paying M&H that kind of money!

[Red Ink Cricket]

im the same. thats why i made my own lol.

[Ryan]

Very good 

Bet your happy with them! Looks like you've gone for the new 2011 distinction profile.

[Red Ink Cricket]

Yeah with all the talk recently about it I thought I'd give it a go. Much prefer it to the old
Shape distinction.

[Ryan]

So do I. That's the shape I've attempted for simmy. Still only rough shaping done. Just can't believe how massive it still is lol

[kaustav]

They look really nice 

What does the mallet test say? Any thoughts of using them yourself in the near future?

[Six Sixes Cricket]

Great stuff Johnners. Reckon you could start selling that distinction.

[kaustav]

Great stuff Johnners. Reckon you could start selling that distinction.

I knew that was coming Rob--- was wondering where you were 

[Six Sixes Cricket]

I didn't want to dissapoint that said I think I've ordered one custom made from a bat maker. Not heard back yet, maybe my requests were to extreme!!