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[Free Bird]

I am just wondering if anyone has a rough idea?

Or Perhaps we can start a list here and keep adding as users can think of bat making brands in UK?

Gosh!!  I know it will be a crime to miss quite a few but here are a few ones I can think of on top of my head.

GM
Newbery
H4L
Redback
M&H
Black cat
Warsop
GN
Vantage
Shark
B3
Charlie French

[WalkingWicket37]

http://custombats.co.uk/findabatmaker.php

[mattw]

Pretty sure Vantage do not make their own bats anymore... A brand being sold on their website may give you a clue?

If that's what you meant by 'bat makers', or do you mean brands? As there are a lot more than that..

[Tom]

Shark are made by B3

[i12breakfree]

May be check the list of batmakers we have on the forum. A lot of them are missing in your list

[Silver Bullet]

Hawk
Red ink
Salix

[SOULMAN1012]

Hawk
Salix
Newbery
H4L
Red ink
RK
Duncan Fernley
Warsop
Chase
GN
B3
GM
Solitaire
M&H
Aldred
Rob Pack

These off the top of my head are some (iv no doubt missed others) that either have a pod shaver or do large amounts of shaping them selves.

[smilley792]

Is Warrior still about??

[Number4]

Hunts?

[tim2000s]

Also missing Nixon. And Newbery aren't a batmaker per se. Then there's Heritage Cricket, Affinity, Redback, Fat Bats, Bulldog (who do make their own), Kippax to name a few and of course questions over Woodstock. The OP hasn't looked at the front page of the Forum!

[Bambooman]

I had a look at this some months ago and it's quite a long list. Based on my own research I found
about 18-20 actual bat makers including about 4-5 who actually make their own handles
and about another 30 bat shapers who get their pre-pressed, pre-handled blades from the some of the 18-20 above or Asia.

[procricket]

Hiw many of them start to finish Uk is a better question I think half the brands people mention

[IWTUK]

And Newbery aren't a batmaker per se.

Excuse my ignorance Tim but are you saying that Newbery don't make bats from scratch?; Their website wording / video etc certainly alludes to them crafting bats from the natural cleft; I would be very disappointed if that wasn't the case. Please PM me if you think this should be discussed in the public domain.

Thanks and apologies if this has been talked through previously.

Ian

[Buzz]

Ian - this is splitting hairs a little, but technically Newbery outsource the making of the bats to the Keeley brothers business.

[ppccopener]

yeah and if you want to go further and split the atom go Woodstock