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[gaurav23]

Good god !!!!!
Don't even think about tapping it up with the ceiling anywhere below 20 ft.
As good as it can possibly get. Wish you the best with it mate.

[skip1973]

That looks as good as it gets, very impressive.

[simonmay5]

That's a stunning bat mate Matt is making some of the nicest bats I seen and the willow is top draw 

[Centurion]

Matt is probably making some of the best bats in England at the moment and the willow is second to none!


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[brokenbat]

Matt is probably making some of the best bats in England at the moment and the willow is second to none!


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Who has the muscle to lift these tree trunks ??!!

[petehosk]

That is a serious Monster!
Bowlers are going to love you!!!
Another stunner coming from the H4L workshop. 

[ridhuan]

Nice, superb, wow etc. looking grain, i want one! May i know, is it Custom Pro range going to be better looking in term of grain compared to Pro H4L ?

[liscon12]

Any chance we could see a side on profile shot, I wanna see how thick that sucker is

[hanif]

Had a brilliant trip down to H4L and just had to post a review of the visit!!

Background.

Having had a couple of H4L bats before I always found them to ping great with excellent pickup! Along side BAS (and CA's of old) these pretty much cover what I tend to use in games. I wondered what a crazy merger of these would bring about alongside a hint of the GN WARNER too so thought why not find out.

Had a chat with Matt and he was brave enough to offer the custom experience in line with his new model launch. Funniest thing is, he had an idea how fussy I am and still let me within 100 miles of his workshop. lol.

Matt found some suitable candidates in terms of clefts and I went to see him with my old BAS and some sketches of my dream concoction of favourite bat shapes lol

Bat specs - Opting for the CUSTOM grade I had access to the best of the best willow and full customisation. Of course being their in person meant that I could tweak the bat as the exact shape I had in mind was uncharted territory for me.

Willow - Clean face, even straight grains but more importantly promising ping and be light cleft too! (not fussy at all lol)

Face - Non flat face

Handle - 3 rubber spring thin semi oval handle. I opted for the new warbird handle as I like the shorter blade option from my experience and longer handle with counterweight would only help.

Weight- Approx 2lb13

Concaving - NONE lol

Bow - Medium

Sizes - Shoulder 15mm. Peak edge 35mm .peak spine 65mm. Toe about 20mm with it fairly square and angled.

Profile - High middle with rounded spine into toe. Edge profile thick fairly high up the blade and extended as low as possible 

What I actually ended up with was 17mm shoulder, 43 mm edge, 25mm toe 69,70 mm spine and no concaving too in just under 2lb14 including grip!

I simply could not believe the pick up and balance. The cleft, handle, the profile and of course Matt working his magic made a bat, that for me, is absolutely lovely!!!

The ping was crazy and as per usual Matt was smashing his sealing!!! To be honest ,I take that as a given with Matt's bats as he is the PING KING!! I had a snoop at some of his G2, G1 and many of those also had superb ping which is good from a customers point of view as consistency in performance at all price points is key! This bat has ticked all my boxes! ( and believe me, there are a lot of them! lol) so I am well chuffed!!!

I took some pics as you will see below but unfortunately the "CUSTOM" model stickers are not ready to be unleashed yet so will get bat sent to me later.

Bat aside, the experience was awesome as Matt was most welcoming and happy to carry out my endless tweaking. A genuine and very friendly bloke as expected from the conversations over the phone. I was also impressed with his ability to find tools INSTANTLY amongst all the array of a batmakers gadgets on the bench!!!! lol

Overall a top experience, making the bat worth a whole lot more to me by the value for money and more so, the excellent service. Refreshing to see genuine bat making from a company that does it all, from willow to bat in hand!























Enjoy folks! :-)

Liscon a few pictures before it was stickered up, hopefully this will give you an idea of the shear size of this beast.

[Mattsky]

Those stickers are fantastic. And lovely grainage too. Corking stuff yet again from H4L.

[SwingAndMiss]

Stop it with all these lush H4L bats!!! So jealous!!! I live a mile off lands end in Cornwall, Kent is so far away. Will have to take missus for a "romantic break" up there, cause an argument, and visit H4L when she's in a huff! 

[batcrazy]

Stop it with all these lush H4L bats!!! So jealous!!! I live a mile off lands end in Cornwall, Kent is so far away. Will have to take missus for a "romantic break" up there, cause an argument, and visit H4L when she's in a huff! 

Thats exactly what i did. Except i forgot the mrs at home. Hahahaha

[sarg]

Fantastic looking grains and profile.  Quality bat.

[batcrazy]

Looks like H4L are reaping the benefits of growing their own willow.

Beautiful bat.

Yes definitely! Although the stickers and bat case are industry leading the best thing is that the ping on h4l bats is unbelievable! Had and seen a few now and all are serious guns. Sevice and value for money is the icing on the cake making it a no brainier if anyone asks me.

[simonmay5]

Yes definitely! Although the stickers and bat case are industry leading the best thing is that the ping on h4l bats is unbelievable! Had and seen a few now and all are serious guns. Sevice and value for money is the icing on the cake making it a no brainier if anyone asks me.

I agree the bats are very special and Matt really does know how to press a bat even the lower end h4l are seriously good bats I love my new custom and the stickers and bat case are the best I have seen