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[stevat]

The Powerspot and original Scoop bring back fond memories for me, though I was always more of a Kookaburra man back in the day.

[trypewriter]

Oh dear, confession time - GN never really 'did it' for me.

[petehosk]

I am a fond admirer of the older Powerbow, like many on here!
Also love the Longbow as it is traditional with a long middle.
Quite looking forward to the new Dynadrive too 

[Number4]

Oh dear, confession time - GN never really 'did it' for me.

When I was a kid lots and lots of years ago GN was "The Only" bat to own if you wanted to be one of the cool kids

[trypewriter]

Ha ha - I was never cool!

[tim2000s]

We had two sports shops when I was starting to buy cricket bats, 25 odd years ago. One sold GN and SS (Stuart Surridge - they had Contours, Jumbos and Turbos, all of which were expensive bats) and the other was GM and Slazenger.

What I remember was that they all seemed really expensive and I ended up with firstly a decidedly rubbish GN Powerspot Tufcoat and then a Slazenger V12 Super Polyarmour which was a lot better, but I was buying to a  budget!!! I was always jealous of my mate's GN Twin Scoop and then his Dynadrive, which was an absolute beauty...

[trypewriter]

I can remember back before that, there was a fad for some bats to be 'dipped' (I presume) in some sort of white jollop so you couldn't see the grains at all. I presume it was some sort of plastic? They looked awful.

[Mortimer]

I can remember back before that, there was a fad for some bats to be 'dipped' (I presume) in some sort of white jollop so you couldn't see the grains at all. I presume it was some sort of plastic? They looked awful.

It was either dipped or sprayed. AFAIK, slazenger were the first people to produce a non oil bat. They called it polyarmoured. Other people produced similar products, eg Fearnley had polyplastic. There were two types of covering, clear and the the white/ cream which as you said covered up poor quality wood. Coated bats pretty much died out when antiscuff became available.

[tim2000s]

I can remember back before that, there was a fad for some bats to be 'dipped' (I presume) in some sort of white jollop so you couldn't see the grains at all. I presume it was some sort of plastic? They looked awful.

Yes. The Powerspot Tufcoat was one of those white coated, relatively cheap bats. It was almost like a white resin tape.

[trypewriter]

I think the ones that I saw were Slazengers, and the coating was really thick from memory.

[Red Ink Cricket]

a millenium 5 star or a longbow titanium. both absolutely flew. used to love the wrap around grips gn did aswell. 

[tim2000s]

I think the ones that I saw were Slazengers, and the coating was really thick from memory.

The Slazenger ones I always remember were the V Classic and Carribean which nearly always came in White Polyarmour and had Carribean stripes on the shoulders. And I could never find the middle. I also remember the excalibur shouldered V12 they did for a little while.

[trypewriter]

Wasn't that called the 'WG'? - GN had a Vesuvius, (I think) with no shoulders in that era (1984/5-ish). The white jollop started a lot earlier than that - maybe more than ten years from memory.

[Byo]

Wasn't that called the 'WG'? - GN had a Vesuvius, (I think) with no shoulders in that era (1984/5-ish). The white jollop started a lot earlier than that - maybe more than ten years from memory.

It was called the WG - also had one of those way back...

[trypewriter]

It was more squared off at the top than the Newbery Excalibur. The GN from memory looked more like the current Willostix Stick. There was a similar shoulderless bat bat called the 'super bomber' - Hunts??