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[PedalsMcgrew]

most important one is the person who shows up with a wallet full of cash to spend it all

But realistically though if as a batmaker you have 2 streams where you make your bats for a company/person and supply unstickered and other stream is where you sell for your own brand. Does that make the bat supplied to the company/person any worse/better?

I'm very cynical about this I guess! Why would a batmaker sell off the best of his stock of willow to another company to sticker up as their own? Surely he would keep the best stuff for himself?

[tushar sehgal]

I'm very cynical about this I guess! Why would a batmaker sell off the best of his stock of willow to another company to sticker up as their own? Surely he would keep the best stuff for himself?

I get what you are saying but then SG/Kooka are a good example, similarly SS, Protos etc etc. I am sure there are UK brands that supply other brands as well, TK is one but excluding him.

If as a brand you sell 400 bats a year but have capacity to manufacture 600 why wouldn't you sell extra 200 so some other brand for a smaller profit?

[Alvaro]

I'm very cynical about this I guess! Why would a batmaker sell off the best of his stock of willow to another company to sticker up as their own? Surely he would keep the best stuff for himself?

So that once the customer sells their stock they come back for more?

[PedalsMcgrew]

So he'd sell off the best stuff to someone else? He wouldn't keep it for himself?

Nope, don't believe it.   

Especially as I have read on here that sourcing the best quality willow is getting harder and harder and as a result willow prices are going up...

[Alvaro]

Maybe not the best, best stuff, but he'd be a fool not to send out stuff of good enough quality to maintain a business model.

[Manormanic]

I do wonder what the likes of SAF do with their proportion of lower grade clefts beause they don't "do" a G3 or G4 model at all...

[tim2000s]

I do wonder what the likes of SAF do with their proportion of lower grade clefts beause they don't "do" a G3 or G4 model at all...

You are assuming that all willow comes from Wrights. There are other suppliers who may not have the same supply terms.

[PedalsMcgrew]

I know one chap who uses a lot of his crappy clefts to heat his kitchen with....

I'd imagine they are very crappy though...

[norbs]

I do wonder what the likes of SAF do with their proportion of lower grade clefts beause they don't "do" a G3 or G4 model at all...

SAF only buys G1 and super best so you can guess the supplier, they sometimes get down graded it is a bit wood afterall...  They get offered as G2's

[Manormanic]

SAF only buys G1 and super best so you can guess the supplier, they sometimes get down graded it is a bit wood afterall...  They get offered as G2's

actually my knowledge of willow suppliers is pretty minimal so I really can't!  sorry!

[PedalsMcgrew]

Maybe not the best, best stuff, but he'd be a fool not to send out stuff of good enough quality to maintain a business model.

As I said, I'm very cynical but this is the thought I have in my head when I am looking at stickered up bats. I always think I could get a better bat by going directly to the maker.

[norbs]

actually my knowledge of willow suppliers is pretty minimal so I really can't!  sorry!

I dont buy from JSW. I have a great relationship with the willow supplier I buy from which is the most important thing for me. No point in naming them because the bat makers on here will know who he is and the last thing they need is people calling them asking for prices on clefts or asking for 1 cleft with no real commitment to buy them.....

[Six Sixes Cricket]

Back to this picture.... I have seen better finished bats 

[Ryan]

I've seen tidier workshops too 

[norbs]

Back to this picture.... I have seen better finished bats 

hahaha  ..... 

Actually those are going to be kids bats for some friends of mine, if I gave them some shinny stickers on those as is they'd be happy...  Saying that my son is complaining that his bat needs sanding after it left out in the drizzle so they aren't all magpie's

I've seen tidier workshops too 

When people turn up I get them on find the pencil duty..... I'm always losing that and the spoke shave... I tidy up when I cant find the drawknife!!!!