I decided to give it to a mate who can take it down to hunts for me to make into a longer handle maxigoose (need to think of a better hybrid name). The blade should still be a decent length to use as a gimmick bat so thats fine by me. I have just stripped the stickers off now and the wood is beautiful, with no marks/blemishes/butterfly stains or anything in sight.. Now I wish it didn't get broken as it sure was something special!
When I pulled the stickers off, the silver outlines of the SS and upwards arrows on the main sticker has stayed on the bat with just the wood showing around it and I am somehow drawn to it more than when it had a lot of the blade covered with the black and red etc. I'd love to see something like that from SS and to show what I am blabbing about I will post up pictures tomorrow