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[Aldred Cricket Bats]

You should see the grade 1s and players grades I have to clean up and handle truly unbelievably beautiful.

[Gingerbusiness]

You should see the grade 1s and players grades I have to clean up and handle truly unbelievably beautiful.

No bat porn, Paul.

My wallet can't take it!

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Your safe at the moment am away coaching all this week but next week, oh my word you may need a cold shower by Wednesday 

[horseman]

Apologies for hijacking the thread, just had my two delivered and all I can say Is how well they tap up. The butterfly top grade bats are stunners. Great shape and pick up to them both.

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Glad they are all good horseman

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Well always nice to get feed back from people non more so than players at the top. Just had a text from one of the main guys at Notts no name can be mentioned so don't ask I won't answer but all the text said was as follows
"Hi mate just a short message to let you know the bat is a belter, really enjoying using it!! Thanks again hope all is well --------"
That always makes me very happy in what I am doing. It was a lovely players grade that was made for him

[jwebber86]

Paul

does he use your stickers on the bat or is it your bat with somebody else stickers?

im going to guess the second one as you cant share his name

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Someone else's I couldn't afford him

[Wickets-then-runs]

I am always interested in helping everyone. can't remember what you were looking for wickets but we try and accommodate most people but we draw the line sometimes at requests that are just too expectant as we do not want to compromise our standards and ethics. Unfortunately I may have missed the odd email, I try not to but sometimes they escape. I am not running a factory I am running a purely bespoke small home workshop that I am gradually building by word of mouth rather than big advertising and doing exactly what I say we do and that is handmade my cricket bats from scratch to order for each individual customer. I have never wanted to be a company that claims to be a bat maker and then just labels pre mades up or tidies up part made bats i have always wanted to learn the craft and keep learning that's why I do this the way I do it. It's not about the money to me although I do want to make a living out of it, it's about the pride in what I do and the feeling I get from it exactly the same as when I was playing, hopefully I'm a bit better at this than I was at playing  .
Anyone who wants help or honest advice please don't hesitate to get in touch
Paul

Hi Paul, no worries at all, I appreciate how busy you are. It's great to see you building your brand and standing true to your beliefs! I am looking forward to getting one of your Players made for me and will be in touch.
Cheers! 

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Look forward to it wickets

[TangoWhiskey]

Apologies for hijacking the thread, just had my two delivered and all I can say Is how well they tap up. The butterfly top grade bats are stunners. Great shape and pick up to them both.

I concur. I bounced a ball a couple of times and was quietly impressed, then I gave it a big whack with my mallet and nearly lost the mallet through the ceiling and the bat through the floor. Now I just have to negotiate a few hours with the Mrs out of the house so I can get really stuck in to readying it for a game!

[leatherseat]

That is a beauty- a wonderful combination of tight grains and butterfly. I feel my wallet hand twitching - fantastic bat.
Feel free to put a few more pictures up as it gets knocked in and then used in anger.

Enjoy,

David

[TangoWhiskey]

That is a beauty- a wonderful combination of tight grains and butterfly. I feel my wallet hand twitching - fantastic bat.
Feel free to put a few more pictures up as it gets knocked in and then used in anger.

Enjoy,

David

Will do, my Mrs gave me a couple of earfuls yesterday. Once because she discovered I had more pictures of my bat on my phone than of her and another when she came into to use the bathroom and I was rubbing the edges up and down the bath! 

[Aldred Cricket Bats]

Will do, my Mrs gave me a couple of earfuls yesterday. Once because she discovered I had more pictures of my bat on my phone than of her and another when she came into to use the bathroom and I was rubbing the edges up and down the bath! 

Hmmmmm not heard of that one before, now I'm getting a bit worried about some customers

[TangoWhiskey]

Hmmmmm not heard of that one before, now I'm getting a bit worried about some customers

Haha imagine how I tried explained it to the Mrs! Its just to get them starting to round and toughen a bit, much more delicate and easier to manage than bashing them with a hammer!