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RF

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GM Diamond
« on: January 19, 2015, 07:10:25 PM »
I bought this from ebay a couple of months ago, I was going to take the stickers off and use as a net bat but the stickers are in such good condition I decided to leave them on.

Old school classic

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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2015, 07:13:56 PM »
Good call leaving the stickers.

Much desired retro look.
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2015, 07:44:10 PM »
Gunn & Moore should really bring out a retro range

The green and blue stickers are classic
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2015, 07:55:50 PM »
Would love to see a Diamond with a modern flavour. Good call leaving the stickers on.
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2015, 07:56:56 PM »
I always wanted the diamond after this one with the cut out - I had my eye on one in Nottingham (when at university) after saving up when I went to buy it they'd sold it  :( ended up with a nice purist though
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2015, 08:16:30 PM »
My dad had an old Maestro, wish I knew where that was
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2015, 11:29:11 PM »

Quote from: RF on January 19, 2015, 08:16:30 PM
My dad had an old Maestro, wish I knew where that was

@RF I have a memory of winning a maestro or cannon... I was thinking your dad bought it off me. Maybe it's that one!
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2015, 10:03:27 AM »
@Boondougal  that rings a bell, I think you might be right.

Any progress on your cricket project mate?
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2015, 10:17:45 AM »
That was such an unique shape. The 90s produced some great, unconventionally shaped bats, the Kookaburra Ridgeback is one that was extremely popular for kids of my vintage, especially as Dean Jones and then a teenage Ricky Ponting used them. Slazenger has the V800 with the grooves taken out the back, GN with their various scooped out models...
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2015, 09:58:45 AM »

Quote from: RF on January 20, 2015, 10:03:27 AM
@Boondougal  that rings a bell, I think you might be right.

Any progress on your cricket project mate?

@RF. Not yet mate. Been too busy with work. Thinking about keeping my powder dry now until next year. Find the right place and get the right people onboard.

Love that Diamond...


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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2015, 10:15:15 AM »
Quote from: Over Gully on January 20, 2015, 10:17:45 AM
That was such an unique shape. The 90s produced some great, unconventionally shaped bats, the Kookaburra Ridgeback is one that was extremely popular for kids of my vintage, especially as Dean Jones and then a teenage Ricky Ponting used them. Slazenger has the V800 with the grooves taken out the back, GN with their various scooped out models...
I think you mean the 70s - 90s. GNs Scooping was a 70s innovation that has proliferated. The Slazenger V12 and Tusker shapes were the start of the "all angles" approach in the 80s. In many ways, GM followed those two with the Diamond. You also had the SS Jumbo and Turbo.

The Slazenger V800 was very much Slaz trying to copy what GN had done (and getting shut down for it when GN applied patent law on the first generation V800 design with the eyes). I think that was actually an 80s design but it may have been early nineties.
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2015, 10:29:33 AM »
Don't remember the SS Turbo been anything particularly special or groundbreaking shape wise but the Jumbo was definitely something new/different at the time.
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2015, 10:37:37 AM »
Ah the old Tuskers - classic!  ;)
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2015, 06:57:03 AM »
Quote from: Andythomo21 on January 21, 2015, 10:29:33 AM
Don't remember the SS Turbo been anything particularly special or groundbreaking shape wise but the Jumbo was definitely something new/different at the time.
Turbo doesn't have a spine! One of the earlier shapes like the Newbery Tour.
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Re: GM Diamond
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2015, 09:14:03 PM »
my most disappointing new purchase ever was a diamond. ... a plank that B&Q would dismiss as sub standard
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