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Charlie French
« on: January 16, 2014, 11:30:23 PM »
Ok so ive been looking at Charlie French bats for a while now and they look very, very nice and a very good price. I also live in Sheffield so can go over to the shop but just wondering what peoples experience with the bats are like?

A mate of mine has just become a part sponsored player for them but hes not got round to using the bat yet apart from indoor.

i have an unused RK bat im wanting to sell for about £65 so this will be up soon to help with the purchase (unless anyone here makes me think otherwise)

All views welcome!
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2014, 12:16:13 AM »
Great bats. Slightly harder pressed than i am used to but top value for money. Look out for the bats of the month you can pick up a real bargain.
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2014, 06:02:44 AM »
I have an agents account with Charlie. Really nice bloke and produces some great bats. He won joint 1st (with H4L) at the Northern bat off held a few years ago. Agree that he's great value for money. He went through a phase of producing bats with a really flat toe, which was a slightly quirky shape, but I had a lot of custom orders with h that requested the spine through to the toe, and he seems to have now incorporated that into his standard shapes.
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2014, 06:28:49 AM »
The Hosk has a lovely one that I've had the pleasure to use a few times. Really nice bat.

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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2014, 07:22:15 AM »
There used to be a little porter cabin, on the grounds of Philadelphia CC (smiley has played there for he league); anyways Philadelphia is 10 minutes from me so I bought a CF Recurve a few years ago and that was a good bat although it didn't have much wood in it
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2014, 07:55:34 AM »
The Goal's (a.k.a. The Hosk I presume) was the one at the Northern Batoff
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2014, 07:57:50 AM »
The only CF bats I have seen have been on this here forum and they all looked very very nice.. 
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2014, 08:01:22 AM »
I think Pedals has experience with CF bats too.
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2014, 08:05:13 AM »
A team I played in the summer contained 3. 2 absolute guns and one plank! Although the "plank" was being used by a less than high class batsman!
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2014, 08:06:12 AM »
Quote from: Giraffe208 on January 17, 2014, 08:05:13 AM
A team I played in the summer contained 3. 2 absolute guns and one plank! Although the "plank" was being used by a less than high class batsman!

Feeling his pain - I can turn anything into a plank... :(
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2014, 08:07:36 AM »
Our 1st XI caprain had a cf. Not sure what one, but it was so hard pressed that there was no response to it
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2014, 08:17:11 AM »
I bought one for my brother some 18 months ago when I first joined the forum. It felt pretty nice with a mallet but it felt so-so in the nets. I kept netting with it in an attempt to get it to open up but to no avail. So I handed it to my bro and said "here you go mate" and a year later it turned into a gun. Nice big sweetspot and very nice ping. He says it's the best bat he's used! I didn't believe him so I had a net with it and it had become a completely different bat!

Moral of the story - be patient with it and give it a decent 6-12 months before passing judgement. Probably true for most bats... :)
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2014, 08:22:18 AM »
Quote from: smokem on January 17, 2014, 08:17:11 AM
Moral of the story - be patient with it and give it a decent 6-12 months before passing judgement. Probably true for most bats... :)

That's literally the most offensive thing I've ever read on here! ;)
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2014, 08:27:18 AM »
Quote from: Giraffe208 on January 17, 2014, 08:22:18 AM
That's literally the most offensive thing I've ever read on here! ;)

Last post before my ban then?.....  ;)
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Re: Charlie French
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2014, 08:32:20 AM »
Our opener has one. It hasn't slot of wood in it, very traditional shape. But goes like a gun.


Strangely though, he's bought a kookaburra menace to replies it just as it's peaking???
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