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[FattusCattus]

Never mind John - you must be a victim of how subtle your sarcasm was!

[King pair]

To be 100% honest given my treatment by admin and the treatment towards another innocent forum member by admin on this forum I have absolutely no interest in becoming a sponsor and I have no knowledge at all about who makes who's bats. Like I said it was a tongue in cheek comment about TK which people haven't taken kindly to.

I don't want to speak out of turn but Ive bitten my tongue for a while now. Right from the get go on here you've been aggressive in promoting your brand. Which in theory there is nothing wrong with, but it appears to me that you feel that you need to take any oppertunity to put down someone Else's company. i could trawl through the forum for examples but i feel there is no need because i think that people will have seen it too. The things you've said have been completely and utterly inaccurate and potentially damaging at times with no sniff of an apology afterwards.
I'm not being funny but i honestly wouldn't buy one of your bats as fire wood (no matter how good they may or may not be) solely based on principle.

[GarrettJ]

I don't want to speak out of turn but Ive bitten my tongue for a while now. Right from the get go on here you've been aggressive in promoting your brand. Which in theory there is nothing wrong with, but it appears to me that you feel that you need to take any oppertunity to put down someone Else's company. i could trawl through the forum for examples but i feel there is no need because i think that people will have seen it too. The things you've said have been completely and utterly inaccurate and potentially damaging at times with no sniff of an apology afterwards.
I'm not being funny but i honestly wouldn't buy one of your bats as fire wood (no matter how good they may or may not be) solely based on principle.

King pair, i really do appreciate you post and i can take both positive and negative comments equally ............  but i do have to say "are you blind?"

I said on this thread the Norfolk Bats bats look good. I said on more than one occassion Aldreds thread his bats are great. I have openly said Vantage bats are gereat and the stickers look fantastic. I have commented on how the B&S bats that Jake has at Vitas are some of the best around. I have also commented on how good the BB bats are. I have openly said Ayrtek's helmets are years ahead of the competition. I do not deny that i have questioned the PRICES of some bats on here.

I'd be interested in you putting up the examples of me putting down other brands at the expense of mine. It would be great for all of the forum to see with their own eyes and make their mind up.

I dont have a problem with admin removing any posts i put up that may be seen as promoting the brand as it is not fair on the forum sponsors, but i do have a problem with other forum members having their posts deleted as a result of the admin deciding that they are part of the brand and engaging in some underhand way of promoting. This is completely not true. Nobody is linked with my brand apart from me and the bloke at the workshop who sorts out the distribution of the bats to any one who buys a piece of firewood off me.

I dont need to promote my brand on here and i wont be.

If you dont want to buy one of my bats, i wont lose sleep over it, its your choice. I have several internationals who have contacted me to ask to use my bats having seen them in the flesh and been very impressed by them. You probably cant bat so wouldnt get any decent use out of it anyway!

[petehosk]

^^^ It's reassuring to see that others have noticed too and that its not just admin being too harsh!!
This comment was to king pairs post by the way.

[Alvaro]

Does anyone have a Norfolk bat?

[FattusCattus]

'Norfolk and chance' of that!

[trypewriter]

Tried to resist it but failed. Norfolk enchants!

[Buzz]

You probably cant bat so wouldnt get any decent use out of it anyway!

That is just the kind of attitude we like to see from a brand owner...

Most are just happy to make a lovely product and to be paid for it, seeing it get put to good use is usually just a bonus!!

[Bats_Entertainment]

The puma contract with regards to stock bats has gone to India. He still has some pros to look after. Yes he pressed the clefts for Puma. They delivered the willow with the specific models listed on the box and were cut down and ready to be handled. Rob did the rest from getting the cleft into the general shape, finished etc and even applied the stickers and toe guards. His asst now shop manager Simon used to help out as well.   

All the pro stuff is separate and dealt with as you'd expect. The clefts are kept separate as well. There's a room full of them

Do Puma source the pro clefts or do they trust Rob with this? There aren't many UK pro's actually with Puma now, are there? (Ben Stokes is the only high profile one I can think of, off the top of my head.) And don't many pro's actually prefer Indian bats now?

[Bats_Entertainment]

One or two batmakers on here talk about outsourcing the pressing only. Are we allowed to know who to?

[petehosk]

I have several internationals who have contacted me to ask to use my bats having seen them in the flesh and been very impressed by them.

I have a couple of questions for you........
1. Which Internationals have contacted you?
That's a big claim to make. And as you are obviously one to want to see proof, I will turn the tables and ask you to send me emails from them so that this can be confirmed. If they have asked not to be made public, just pm me the details so that I can confirm that it is true, without divulging actual names!

2. Do you make your Python bats yourself? Do you finish them only or do you press, handle and do all the work on them?
And if you don't make them completely, who presses them for you?

[Dan W]

Tbf I assumed GarrettJ was just doing a sarcastic take on the Brimble/Lekka/Bats_Entertainment constant silly chest beating about 'knowing' TK makes everyone's bats.

(Though I didn't know until this thread he had a brand?)

[Number4]

Tbf I assumed GarrettJ was just doing a sarcastic take on the Brimble/Lekka/Bats_Entertainment constant silly chest beating about 'knowing' TK makes everyone's bats.

(Though I didn't know until this thread he had a brand?)

You are obviously not a pro then are you

[petehosk]

(Though I didn't know until this thread he had a brand?)

You would have been very aware of the brand had we not removed all the self promotion being posted! 

[Bats_Entertainment]

Tbf I assumed GarrettJ was just doing a sarcastic take on the Brimble/Lekka/Bats_Entertainment constant silly chest beating about 'knowing' TK makes everyone's bats.

Pardon? I don't claim to know any more than anyone else. I just dislike the culture of sneakiness that pervades.