As the forum member who took up the offer from Lords I'll let you know where I am at the moment.
I rejected all clefts at Lords, they were just average grade 1/2/3 clefts with nothing special available. I had a good chat with Alex about what I wanted and I said I would wait until the right cleft came along and have a Huge profile in 2.10 - 2.12 with a very large oval handle. I was expecting to wait until October for this as I was told I could have my choice of the 4 new ranges they were bringing out sticker wise. So I paid and forgot about it all.
Yesterday morning my bat came, I won't swear but it was a grade 2 Indian made plank, not a big profile in the slightest, a small round handle with an extra half grip on the bottom hand and weighed in at 2.14. I managed to avoid splintering it into 100 pieces on the driveway and instead took it to Robertsbridge, 164 miles away.....
I went into the office and asked to talk to someone about my bat I had received, I showed them the delivery note with my specifications on it and then the bat. The bat was inspected and pronounced a good looking bat and very big, "what is the problem?" was the reply, I had a large duffle bag with some examples of what I consider a big profile to be and despite the actual presence of bats twice the physical size of the GN being in front of him he couldn't see the problem. Thankfully he offered to get Alex for me before he felt the power of another brand square in his face. Alex thankfully managed to see that I was right and apologised for the offering and having looked at a M&H custom I got last week with the comment "Oh god, I was worried you would have something that big!!!" said he would get me some similar in size and beat a swift retreat.
I have this morning received an email from Alex confirming his intention to produce a bat to my spec's once he has a suitable cleft from the kiln and said that GN were working on producing bigger bats for low weights.
The bat sent to me would have been a 4 star grade at the very best straight off the shelf. I hope your Powerbow plays very well as you have again no more than a 4 star grade bat there which is £100 on the internet, not £150 which should get a true custom as per their offer.
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