It's not just me (Paul), but our very able team here just love knocking in bats! Especially Bilal, he treats them all like a work of art, so £3 per hour doing something we love that helps our customers seems to work for us! Besides, we all know how unreliable machines are when it comes to knocking in bats, especially with the work they do on edges!! You could pay £25 for a machine or £15 with us...
It's Bilal here aka Bil!
Paul, has mentioned a well understated fact here!
Knocking in by machine is good only in the mid 1/3 of the cricket bat.
As, the machine can not go all out near the bottom two and a half inches, along with the edges.
As a result, these are poorly completed areas and ironically the areas that need the most attention.
Rule of thumb! Knocking in by hand is always more preferred and of much better quality.
To use an analogy here, compare most of the machined good with goods made by hand.
Generally, goods made by hand such as luxury cars, hand bags, watches and most importantly Cricket bats are of much better quality. Similarly, knocking in by hand is much better!
Hope that clears any misconceptions...
With regards to the comments from A-Swin-And-A-Miss! on costing...
We @IJC pride ourselves at delivering great quality customer service.
And, part of running a cricket business involves knocking in cricket bats, hence enjoy the service and don't worry about the wage rates involved in knocking in your cricket bat
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