Based in Brissie I was excited to learn about this podshaving academy project. Your mind races and you wonder whetre this could lead you. I really didn't know too much about kick-starter, but it seems a good way of trying to get funding. I really hope it works for him, and I know a few people, myself included, who would go on a week long course to make a bat. That said, I'm not sure how good a bat I could make with just two goes, however. Or indeed if I would be skilled enough to pass on that tradition and contribute to keeping it going. No problem, you say. Buy some clefts and keep refining your skill, you say. Maybe sell a few on the way. Unfortunately I was speaking to another Australian gentleman who was telling me just how difficult it was to get all the tools and kit in this part of the world. He works in cricket and said it had taken him a couple of years to assemble, and was at the point starting production when he hit his biggest snag. That being, after proving he was a genuine cricket business, and not just a willow intermediary, he was put on a waiting list for willow. After 18 months of waiting he got the call to say the willow wasn't coming, something to do with exchange rates and greater demand in India. Anyway that was my new best dream for a different future conceived and trounced on in under 24hrs. So it could be an interesting 'holiday' and possibly a novelty to make your bat or two but as for kickstarting a new wave of podshavers downunder it doesn't seem likely to me. Anyway, just my ten penneth. There are far more qualified than me to make comment.
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