Well I now have said bat in hand. I would post more pics but due to an unfortunate combination of bubbly, my cellphone and the restaurants concret floor I don't have a camera at the moment.
Unfortunately the online conversion from grams to pounds caught me out, it weighs 1225grams, which when plugged into the converter returned 2.7lbs, which I read as 2lb 7 ounces which is wrong, it actually weighs 2lbs 11 which if I had realised I would not have bought it. That being said its still a reasonable piece of wood for that weight, it's certainly bigger than my H4L which weighs the same. The bat has 41mm edges and 65mm spine, and a reasonably thick toe at 30mm and has a lot of timber throughout the length of the bat. It has minimal concaving and a slight bow. 11 grains with a touch of heartwood on the inside edge.
The handle is very interesting, it has what I would say is a standard oval at the bottom but then tapers to an extremely thin top of the handle with what appears to be a counterbalance weight taped at the top of the handle, I have not taken the tape off but will do so when I have acess to a camera.
It would appear that he didn't spend too much time breaking it in as it does have a number of seam marks showing, funnily enough 90% of these are right in the middle of the bat up and down the length of the bat, very few on the edge, from how easy this bat leaves seam marks I can say that it actually has had very little use and I suspect has only been used indoors as the toe is clean with a touch of scuffing. It does have a small crack at the toe where it has a depression from a Yorker but this won't be an issues.
It does have a great pickup, feels lighter than my H4L which is a bat I consider picks up well.
Response wise its good, no better than my H4L, I'm going to spend some time with the mallet on it and see if it makes any difference.
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Topic: Impulse buy - guess the weight (Read 2558 times)