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[Number4]

you know this thread will get locked in a minute and you'll have to restart the same discussion on cricket insight 

I sand bats down does that mean I'm a batmaker? I've got a sander, 2 grades of sandpaper and everything!

I once sanded cherries off my bat does that count

[uknsaunders]

I once sanded cherries off my bat does that count

it's more complicated than that - you need to take the scuff sheet off first or use nail polish remover lol

[Number4]

it's more complicated than that - you need to take the scuff sheet off first or use nail polish remover lol

I thought using my grinder was then way to do it

[norbs]

As fas I can see M&H have there own shapes

[Johnny]

I would guess Lekka

[Red Ink Cricket]

do they frequent the forum or are we looking further afield?

[Simmy]

so a company that doesnt have its own shapes and just stickers up bats lol

there are a fair few tbh?

[norbs]

actually scrap this, delete it, lock it we are covering old ground   

[Red Ink Cricket]

actually scrap this, delete it, lock it we are covering old ground   

booo! just as it was getting interesting 

im sure it would have been locked at some point anyway

[Spanky]

Kookaburra?

[norbs]

I'm just slightly annoyed that people have the option available to them to create something and just go for stock shapes for all there bats...

[Simmy]

norbs just spill the beans lol kook was not a bad shout as all the shapes are same as the sg bats,

but kook might have designed the shape and sg are using it even tho sg make them type thing...

[M77]

Agreed, its just bloody lazy and as soon as someone pops up they go again... most thinking i can make a few quid but actually without a long term view you can't. like so many they sell to a few mates and then the scope of the task is a little too much for most people.

A little honesty wont do anyone any harm and i'm willing to stake my own money on it.

In comparison to some others i have been making my own shape by hand then sending them off to people I know or have met to see who can reproduce them "by hand" and allow me to make numbers.

Even this does not make me a bat maker but it does make me try to at least vary what is out there and improve in areas i feel i can. The simple relabelling job is one that many undertake, many poorly and all competing year on year for a tiny % of market share only to be undone by the next set of labels.

Once you can actually add something to the pot, innovate and convert knowledge/passion into something viable then you will be fighting innertia and be limited in what you can do.

A bat, is a bat is a bat.... not my words but from someone many of you all revere and said to me when i first started looking at getting to "know" not speculate about the industry itself.

If you are in this trade you are in it for the love first and money is a bonus at least to keep you in the industry itself. The whole package is ready for a little shake and i believe its not too far away.   

[uknsaunders]

pretty much what you were saying Monday Marcus.

[tim2000s]

A bat, is a bat is a bat.... not my words but from someone many of you all revere and said to me when i first started looking at getting to "know" not speculate about the industry itself.

Couldn't agree more. If I can take a pressed cleft and turn it into a bat, then quite frankly, as the quote says... And even when I take some more weight off it, it will still be a bat...