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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #480 on: October 24, 2014, 11:41:08 AM »

Kippers if you have followed me over the last few years you will have read my thoughts on profiles. A bat in the hand is about personal confidence, how it makes you feel with a piece of willow in your hand. I played professional cricket in an age with the old fashioned style of bats on quick county and international pace tracks with the traditional parallel edge bats that people now would say we're suited to low bounce wickets. I watched great players score double hundreds and hit the ball just as far as players do now with what would be deemed minuscule bats compared to what people accept as the norm now days, and they didn't have to bring the boundaries in to create sixes like they do now, poor bowlers. The bats were pressed properly and balanced properly full stop.
 All my bats are made to order specific to the individual. I take great pride in the quality of the pressing in every grade of willow we sell and also how the bats feel. I want people to get bats every bit as good as we used to get as professionals with a service of yesteryear not many pros get bats actually made for them now.
 Whichever profile you like and feel is the nicest in your eyes and is going to make you feel happy and confident is the one to go for and then we make it from there for you.
Hope that helps a little, just ask any of our customers on here I am sure they will give you non biased views and I am always happy to speak to you to help give you advice from not only a bat making side but also a coach and professional cricketer point of view, I'm always here to help with no sales or marketing speak, just cricket language.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #481 on: October 24, 2014, 11:45:55 AM »

Those butterfly 1,s are a steal at that price
They look too nice to use!

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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #482 on: October 24, 2014, 12:14:55 PM »

Thanks for that bit of common sense. I don't really know too much about bats. I spent years down the order and only batted when we needed to bat out for a draw. 20 overs for 8 runs, when they brought there openers back on to knock over the tail. I think somebody must of noticed i had about 15 not out's out of 20 innings and asked me to open up and just try and see off the new bowlers. Now I'm stuck opening which i really enjoy. Made my first 50 last knock of this year of 15 overs so I have decided to take batting and bats more seriously. Not to bad for an opening bowler aged 52 lol
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #483 on: October 24, 2014, 12:33:02 PM »

Great story. You cant go wrong with paul, if you have time arrange a visit (a personal objective of mine) . If not paul posts lots of pictures of clefts and rough weights to help make an educated decision.

I own bats from pauls supreme range in grade 1 through to butterfly and the shape and finishing are superb. My next is to be a good sovereign.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #484 on: October 29, 2014, 02:32:32 PM »

Just cleaning a few more butterfly1 clefts up feel very light too as well as looking beautiful
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #485 on: October 29, 2014, 03:45:25 PM »

well a very lucky lad is about to get this very special junior bat. it is a supreme butterfly1, size 6 blade size 5 overall so short handle so it can be replaced as he grows to save on expense of a new bat 37mm edges 60mm spine and weighs in at 2lb 5oz and feels just superb. no more losing shape whilst trying to smash a ball off the square with the usual ill performing junior bats, this will allow him to get every bit of value he can out of his shots
   



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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #486 on: November 15, 2014, 11:49:11 AM »

Look at these babies wating to be shaped into a new life and just look at their weights in this form. You can take about a pound out of them
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #487 on: November 15, 2014, 12:16:48 PM »

Paul, you're not helping my bat addiction any, but just so i can show how tough my willpower is (or indeed what value my good lady could get for her hard earned cash, should she decide upon a hitherto unexpected early xmas present), can you remind me how much it would be to shape one of these (e.g. no 2 or no.4) into a new butterfly 1 spectre weighing in 2.7 dressed please. By the way, are the clefts a couple of posts above gone? Regards Rpt Customer
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #488 on: November 15, 2014, 12:21:44 PM »

The two at either end will soon be snapped up.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #489 on: November 15, 2014, 12:22:06 PM »

For 2-7 dressed you want the lightest. They all ping so irrelevant on performance just what looks right for you. No they are not gone just done them this morning. First come first serve. £170 totally hand made shipped mainland uk.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #490 on: November 15, 2014, 12:41:40 PM »

Paul I just PM'd you if that's ok. Are knots at the edge prone to cracking around them, on the assumption they are harder than the other wood and therefore a strike across a knot and some adjacent 'softer' wood will cause a fault at the interface between the two densities or is that something which can be accounted for in the pressing process, please?
 
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #491 on: November 15, 2014, 04:34:31 PM »

1'st one of the left looks like it'll make a beautiful stick.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #492 on: November 15, 2014, 04:36:58 PM »

They all will every one of them feels beautiful
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #493 on: November 15, 2014, 04:48:31 PM »

They all will every one of them feels beautiful

Agree Paul surely they all will but my eyes couldn't move on from the 1'st one  :) If I had money atm that would have been mine.
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Re: Butterfly
« Reply #494 on: November 26, 2014, 11:06:58 AM »

a lovely butterfly1   spectre off to Australia a very light bat at 2-7 feels like a wand


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