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[joymarvin]

This is why I don't really favour "a design your own bat" approach by clubbies. As I believe it takes away the batmakers skill and judgement when shaping to some extent. You cant buy experience.

Anyone ever hit a six off the toe end of the bat?
Why would you want a 40mm toe,  in one of the deadest zones of a bat  ?

I agree.

[shax12]

This is why I don't really favour "a design your own bat" approach by clubbies. As I believe it takes away the batmakers skill and judgement when shaping to some extent. You cant buy experience.

Anyone ever hit a six off the toe end of the bat?
Why would you want a 40mm toe,  in one of the deadest zones of a bat  ?

Maybe some clubbies are only good at using the toe and not the middle so blame the toe for being too thin for their shortcomings.

[Churchy1989]

a very bad idea...

[edge]

The toe sounds like the longer bladed mongoose.

Yep the Cor3 has pretty close to a 40mm toe, long middle, extended edges etc and is much nicer than this idea!

[KW9221]

Maybe some clubbies are only good at using the toe and not the middle so blame the toe for being too thin for their shortcomings.

Agreed! I have heard them quite a lot.

[Tom]

The theory behind the Mongoose was the following:
Bigger toes = higher MOI = greater batted ball speed for bat weight

I accept batmakers have lots of experience and that should be taken into account. That said, there isn't much scientific about shaving a block of wood in pretty much the same way they have done for 100 years. We should continue to challenge that with bat designs and innovation.

[edge]

The theory behind the Mongoose was the following:
Bigger toes = higher MOI = greater batted ball speed for bat weight

I accept batmakers have lots of experience and that should be taken into account. That said, there isn't much scientific about shaving a block of wood in pretty much the same way they have done for 100 years. We should continue to challenge that with bat designs and innovation.

I'm a big fan of this line of thinking, not a theory unique to cricket bats either!

[InternalTraining]

The theory behind the Mongoose was the following:
Bigger toes = higher MOI = greater batted ball speed for bat weight

I accept batmakers have lots of experience and that should be taken into account. That said, there isn't much scientific about shaving a block of wood in pretty much the same way they have done for 100 years. We should continue to challenge that with bat designs and innovation.

What is MOI?

[procricket]

This is why I don't really favour "a design your own bat" approach by clubbies. As I believe it takes away the batmakers skill and judgement when shaping to some extent. You cant buy experience.

Anyone ever hit a six off the toe end of the bat?
Why would you want a 40mm toe,  in one of the deadest zones of a bat  ?

Be a very boring world if we just accepted the bats given to us by batmakers though wouldn't it.

Enough plagiarism going on without becoming origin.

I like concept and design and hope people never stop tinkering even if it goes full circle

[LBWCandidate]

That pick up won't work for me. It will feel like 2.12 even if its 2.8ish I think.
Laverwood Ultra might be closer to this profile but not such a massive toe.

[InternalTraining]

Moment of inertia. No strictly correct, but roughly "swing weight"/ pickup

Thanks.

Good article about "MOI": http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/bats/bat-moi-details.html

#MOI
#MomentOfInteria
#SwingWeight

[jd163]

IMO the craziest bat in existence with super low middle is Laver & Wood Legacy Ultra.

http://www.laverwood.co.nz/legacy_detail.php

[edge]

I would love to give one of they a go

Get a part made bat off a forum sponsor, shouldn't take too long to copy that shape - you only have to do the top end after all!

[Calzehbhoy]

IMO the craziest bat in existence with super low middle is Laver & Wood Legacy Ultra.

http://www.laverwood.co.nz/legacy_detail.php

I used to use basically this. My mate had a puma that was an absolute cannon, he completely destroyed the toe beyond repair not wanting to throw away such a great bat (He was going to skip it) I cut off the bottom inch or two so the toe was now at the start of the middle.

We called it the PumeGoose and it absolutely flew!

[Kulli]

Not sure it works quite as simply as cutting off the bit below the middle and the toe now being as 'pinky' as the previous middle was!