Gauges? We don't need no stinking gauges!
To do the Voodoo that you do so well, we play pretty keen recreational cricket. Used to be Sunday cricket but because we're getting older we've just agreed to play the Saturdays so we have a day longer to recover.
GN handles are very thin and round so I kill two birds by adding the K tape which ovals it out too. I cut strips to about 2/3 of the length of the handle and a 3 to 4 layers front and back. Stretching them out to the length of the handle reduces the 5cm width of the tape. Then you've got a thicker handle without the flex of a second grip.
The counter weight does make a difference to me. I bat very open handed so my bottom two fingers on my top hand rest just under the (for want of a better word) knob. 2 layers of 2 strips does the job.
😀😀Hahaha
Saturday or Sunday, doesn't matter I do look at those bats when they come out bat to my bowling.
Yesterday, that guy who's very humble in person, was hitting me hard and his bat was sounding very sweet! 😀 He middled everything but one, but then slip was moved, without even letting me know, (skip) 😀
while taking a couple, batter was saying, well bowled,
It was an AKD bat, white willow, guessing, looking at it's middle, around 2lb 11oz.