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[SOULMAN1012]

If your ill and want to know why you see a doctor

If your looking for advice on best meat for a BBQ you see a butcher

If you want a quality bat ask and trust the bat maker.

If your going into a shop always pick up a bat in a pair of gloves and always use a mallet or best an old ball.

These are my simple rules and iv never gone wrong so far.

[PM7]

I am never looking to find that perfect bat as it would spoil all the fun if I actually found it!
Ive experimented with different profiles and bought 6 of the different Forum sponsor brands.
I cant tell you which one was better than the other as ive never used one single bat long enough.
The biggest bat for the lightest weight and the best pick up seems to be what I am always looking for.

[Torque]

We've seen a lot of discussion over previous weeks about different grades of willow and how performance is more important than looks. But when buying a bat from a bat shop, or a selecting a cleft with a batmaker, how do you go about ensuring that you get that performance that you're after?

Do you have an approach that says "Pay the money, get the best bat that WILL have the best performance"? Do you tap it up, with a mallet, finger, something else and say "That's the one"? Do you trust that batmakers know their onions and simply go on what the bat feels like?

I'm intrigued, as generally, I'll let a batmaker make a bat and take what they give me, trusting that they know what they are doing. When I've been present (the once) the batmaker and I tapped up all the clefts and selected the one that felt and sounded the best. If I go into a shop to buy I tap the bats with my finger and then select on this and pick up, but generally on pick-up more.

We talk about wanting bats with the best performance, so how do we as a group try and ensure that we are getting that?

Tim, what are you looking for when you tap the bats with your finger?

[FattusCattus]

Woodworm

[Buzz]

with finger tapping you can test the resonance of a bat. so by the sound of the bat you can check where the sweet spot is and the size of the middle.

different people flick or tap the bat in different ways.

personally I can't really do it, but sometimes pretend to to look clever.
I am pretty sure I am not alone in this!!

[tejasapatel]

personally I can't really do it, but sometimes pretend to to look clever.
I am pretty sure I am not alone in this!!

You are not alone. I can't do it either but it looks cool. May be during one of those pretend taps I'll be enlightened to sounds of willow.

[procricket]

Today I was tapping around 300 clefts and picked up a new stick.

Funny thing is it was a pre made used bat but what a bat and it only has 6 grains and is a right belter.

[Blazer]

If your ill and want to know why you see a doctor

If your looking for advice on best meat for a BBQ you see a butcher

If you want a quality bat ask and trust the bat maker.

If your going into a shop always pick up a bat in a pair of gloves and always use a mallet or best an old ball.

These are my simple rules and iv never gone wrong so far.

I can vouch for your ability to pick the good ones out having bought a Newbery GT off you  . I really can't tell by the sound , hence rely on pick up.

[smilley792]

Cricket bats are a lottery.

Ive hand picked a cleft that was a dud.
Ive had a cleft selected for me that was a dud
Ive bought custom g1 that was clearly a g3 bat and told "its the only cleft we had left sorry"

Ive picked bats merely on looks and pick up that were guns.
Ive picked bats merely on looks and pick up that were duds.

But

Ive bought 5 bats, 1 from ijc, 2 from uzi and 2 from vitas that were all top notch bats.
Id be happy to let them 3 hand pick my bats for me. As they are far more experienced than me.

[Torque]

Today I was tapping around 300 clefts and picked up a new stick.

Funny thing is it was a pre made used bat but what a bat and it only has 6 grains and is a right belter.

Any photos?

[Alvaro]

Woodworm

Flame or Torch?

[procricket]

Any photos?

http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=29770.msg470372;topicseen#msg470372

[FattusCattus]

Flame or Torch?

Boom! There you go - better late than never 

[trypewriter]

with finger tapping you can test the resonance of a bat. so by the sound of the bat you can check where the sweet spot is and the size of the middle.

different people flick or tap the bat in different ways.

personally I can't really do it, but sometimes pretend to to look clever.
I am pretty sure I am not alone in this!!

If something taps back don't buy it...

[swamidude]

The shape and feel of handle is a huge factor, and something I've only realised recently. It affects the way you get power into a shot as well as whether you're able to use your wrists freely. I've gone through a few bats which haven't done it for, might send my perfect M&H somewhere just to have the handle copied!