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[sunny_Kris]

Hello Everyone,

 First off, thanks to the CBUK forum and its passionate members for such an informative site. I would never have thought of purchasing a bat from Laver & Wood if it weren't for the positive experiences shared here.

 I took the plunge when L&W came up with a Private Bin sale in Apr '16 and after some back and forth with James over e-mail, I decided to go with the Reserve. The entire process was seamless and super efficient. Here's the result :

 Grade: Reserve
 Weight: 2.14
 Pickup: 2.11 (sometimes feels like a 2.10)
 Grips: 1
 Handle: Heavy handle to help pickup

 

[Bats_Galore]

Beautiful looking bat. Lovely finishing as ever from laver. What's the shape?

[potzy248]

Very nice shape mate. You won't go wrong with Laver.

[Ridenmarke]

Beautiful looking bat there

[prav936]

Beauty personified

[gaurav23]

My My !!
That's simply LUSH !!

[sunny_Kris]

Beautiful looking bat. Lovely finishing as ever from laver. What's the shape?

 Its a slight modification on their special profile. I'm calling it the glutton

[Six Sixes Cricket]

I know lavers pick up really well, but 3-4 oz's, really!

[Northern monkey]

Oh that's another laver stunner!
There's a hell of a lot of wood in that

[jd163]

Nice looking bat with good wood coverage.

[Shortpitch]

Awesome bat @sunny_Kris. Have a similar profile in butterfly. Just curious, How is Handle? think or thick enough???

[sunny_Kris]

I know lavers pick up really well, but 3-4 oz's, really!

 to get a second opinion, I asked my friend who plays with heavy bats to do a pickup check and he too put it around 2-10/11. It's pure magic and James is a wizard! 

[sunny_Kris]

Awesome bat @sunny_Kris. Have a similar profile in butterfly. Just curious, How is Handle? think or thick enough???

 @Shortpitch : awesome! do you have pictures? please post the link.

 It's a semi-oval handle. this is my first laver, so i dont have a reference to other grades, but i guess this is their standard handle for the reserve. Let me post some measurements later.

 

[Shortpitch]

Here are pics of my Butterfly.

http://custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php?topic=38384.15

Only difference between the profiles I can spot is that, reserve has a bit of concaving to get the high spine where as the butterfly doesn't have any concaving and spine is normal.