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[jd163]

My 2011 biggest kahuna was one of the best bat's Ive owned.
My 2017 kahuna extreme was so good, I've just ordered a obscene as there on sale.......

^ Cant agree more on Kook Obscene & Xtreme. I also got the 2nd one from Vitas. The last one got 48mm edge & on discount too :-)

Obscene & Xtreme are 2-13 and above.. Out of the box performance is really good.

[smilley792]

obscene??

What weight were these bats? Did they open up quickly?

My extreme came knocked in by Jake but it pinged from the off. Was ridiculous.

The obscene is on route, but it was the last 2.15 in the kook warehouse, they apparently only have 3lb plus left.

But at 150(considerably cheaper than my grade 2 extreme cost) I really couldn't say no.

Apparently has huge bow to.

[petehosk]

I agree about the Big Kahunas! And even some of the newer ones are seriously decent!
I seem to remember @simonmay5 picking one up and purchasing it! Too heavy for him but actually it didn't pick up too badly and it certainly tapped up really well!

[Hoover]

A copy lathe is not CNC. It is more like a jig. Copy lathes have been used donkeys years to make things like spindles. A CNC lathe is a totally different thing.

The chainsaw replaced the axe and crosscut saw.
Willow was once split using a wedge and sledgehammer, now hydraulic splitters are used.
Shaping a cricket bat was once completed using drawknife, spokeshave and block plane which then moved to router and Rye cutter and then onto cnc machine.
Machinery is used in any method chosen to make a bat.
The Cnc does not make handcrafting redundant in our business, in fact helps us get to the important part a lot quicker. We can , and still do for some customers ,make bats from the clefts using the traditional methods. It makes no difference to the final product, just takes a hell of a lot longer .
It is very easy to criticise a method used when you cannot use that method yourself.

[Seniorplayer]

The chainsaw replaced the axe and crosscut saw.
Willow was once split using a wedge and sledgehammer, now hydraulic splitters are used.
Shaping a cricket bat was once completed using drawknife, spokeshave and block plane which then moved to router and Rye cutter and then onto cnc machine.
Machinery is used in any method chosen to make a bat.
The Cnc does not make handcrafting redundant in our business, in fact helps us get to the important part a lot quicker. We can , and still do for some customers ,make bats from the clefts using the traditional methods. It makes no difference to the final product, just takes a hell of a lot longer .
It is very easy to criticise a method used when you cannot use that method yourself.

True but still prefer a bat that's been handcrafted

[Northern monkey]

Millichamp and Hall
I lusted after one for years
Bought one for myself and one for my son,(more than twice what I'd ever paid for a bat before)
Both snapped in half before the season had ended

Shocking prices and shocking quality
And the aftersales service is appalling
Unfortunately idiots trading on past glories

[Tom]

True but still prefer a bat that's been handcrafted

What does handcrafted mean to you?

[brokenbat]

I prefer bats that are "hand pressed"   the evil pressing machines have ruined the industry...

[Seniorplayer]

What does handcrafted mean to you?

The bat is handmade  from cleft to completion inc handle.

[Tom]

The bat is handmade  from cleft to completion inc handle.

The reason I asked is because Newbery for years have still considered themselves handmade, despite the heavy use of CNC machines.

No batmakers out there does exactly what you're asking for. Pretty much every single batmaker makes use of electric tools whether that's lathes, spindle moulders, planers, electrically operated presses, copy-lathes. They've all been added to make a batmakers life easier. CNC is an extension of that.

[Seniorplayer]

The reason I asked is because Newbery for years have still considered themselves handmade, despite the heavy use of CNC machines.

No batmakers out there does exactly what you're asking for. Pretty much every single batmaker makes use of electric tools whether that's lathes, spindle moulders, planers, electrically operated presses, copy-lathes. They've all been added to make a batmakers life easier. CNC is an extension of that.

As far as I aware there's  batmaker who does it  apart from the pressing the press is electric but each cleft is individually pressed initial belt sanding and binding the handle between centres the rest is done by hand

[Neon Cricket]

As far as I aware there's  batmaker who does it  apart from the pressing the press is electric but each cleft is individually pressed initial belt sanding and binding the handle between centres the rest is done by hand

What about Hawk?

[alexhilly1492]

slazenger

[tushar sehgal]

I thought this was thread about brand names, "who's got the worst name in your opinion", and not what they make...if that's the case i would have never purchased hits hard, especially their gloves that said the brand name at finger joints of the gloves.

if we are talking about one brand i would stay away from nothing comes close to SAF Bats, nothing lol...

All the folks talking abt UK made, what about if a bat was pressed in UK, shaped in India and then sent back to the UK for stickering?

I also thought the CNC machines being used to make bats were a UK first, why not support them, it is made in the UK, leading tech and industry leadership!! should you not be supporting your own!! btw some of you missed GN in the CNC category, aren't they mostly machine made now too?

[Sitonit]

I would like to throw in SF and SG in my "walk away" list.