Hello all,
A little news to begin 2016. We decided to stock Chase this season, as they fitted in with our philosophy, and they very much impressed us at the Lord's Trade Show over the past couple of years.
We visited their factory in Dummer's Farm in Hampshire just before Christmas for the first time, and were very impressed with the whole set up. Daniel and his team are very passionate and professional, and that comes across in their stunning bats.
We only picked four bats this time - (showing even more how much we care about every single bat we stock that we take a full day out and train expenses just to pick four bats!) I've attached photos of all four. The Harrow FLC (the bat on its own) has sold, but we have all the other three in SH still in stock.
The stickers have changed for 2016 (I think for the better!) but no change to shapes. The Lancer bat has been discontinued and they have a new Platinum bat which we are very impressed with. We reserved a Platinum cleft when we were there, but it still needed a fair bit of work, so we will post about that one when we get it in stock!
The FLC SH bat was picked from an unshaped handled cleft and then Dan finished the shaping, ran it under the press and sanded it in front of our very eyes, which was quite cool! Photos of this bat making plus some general shots in and around the factory can be found on our FB page here -
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.933069656729177.1073741843.267632753272874&type=3. We've got a lot of stuff to come from Chase - middling bats, softs etc. We are genuinely very excited about this one and are looking forward to reviewing them.
Great to chat cricket and bats with Dan and his team - and to find another brand which believes as strongly in our philosophy as we do!
I've attached some photos below, I really think their bat boxes are cool as well - little touches are very much valued in an industry like ours!
Check out the bats on our website here -
http://www.itsjustcricket.co.uk/chase-m64. Weights to suit most people!
Enjoy!
Chris