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[peplow]

Help!

I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!

The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...

Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?

I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...

[jonpinson]

Help!

I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!

The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...

Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?

I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...

If you had a back up my advice would be to get a Laver. Why not, you want one, so go for it.

But if you are to be reliant on one bat next season I'd consider getting a couple from over here, isn't going to cost you any more.

[Colesy]

Mate I've got one bat for the season for the second in a row. It's hard

[mdl_1979]

Help!

I have made the decision to have 1 bat for the 2011 season! Am i going crazy? This is simply a plea for normality and the fatc i can use one at a time, and heaven forbid it breaks, my team mates all have bats i have supplied so i owuld be happy to use any of them haha!

The hardest thing will be finding it, i am thinking laver but with no reply from them for a while now and the expenses i will incur i am starting to look elsewhere to weigh up my options...

Do i go english made?
Do i buy loads and keep 1 with the rest being sold?
Do i buy it now or wait for my trip and see whats to offer there?

I know the sort of weight i am after but am undecided on the bat for me...

I've been thinking similar.  I have sold 3 bats in the last week or so.  No doubt I will buy one or two more before the season starts though!

[jimba101]

your not soft, probably sensible reckon i may do the same. Ordered a new H4L, as long as i like it i think i may keep it as a lone bat. My hunts has been sold (i think) and reckon my kook will go well on ebay now. will save me alot of money!

[Canners]

You've gone soft mate.......

Although if your dead set on just a laver I'd wait til you get out to Nz and get one measured up who knows you could have another growth spurt by then also youl get to look at all the profiles and decide which you like the most..... And maybe even select the cleft for your dream bat.....

[SillyShilly]

Or.......you could take a super-duper lightweight cleft over in your luggage, take it to James (and obviously impress him with your cricketing knowledge) and get him to knock you up a bat while you wait and hopefully at a cheaper price!!!

[peplow]

hmmm shout and a half my shilly!

Will be considering anything and everything in the next month, and will hopefully come to a sensible (although i very much douby it!) decision...

[johan95]

Probably sensible Mr P. Will have a little rota going on next season. Have 2 match bats of similar weight, a heavier net bat and a middling bat... :|- It is true you can only use one in the middle, so it might be worth getting something special from Laver. Maybe take a blank over that you find cheap in case you can't get your bat made up that quickly: though I am sure you will find something special in Oz..

[FattusCattus]

Get James to make something in front of you.

A Lammington and a Tui should seal the deal for you.

[Canners]

Where can you get these super duper lightweight clefts from?

[procricket]

hmmm shout and a half my shilly!

Will be considering anything and everything in the next month, and will hopefully come to a sensible (although i very much douby it!) decision...

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I seriously doubt he will do this as a reputable batmaker he makes with his own clefts and suspect that all he will do

[procricket]

Where can you get these super duper lightweight clefts from?

Put any cleft in a airing cupboard leave for 6 weeks the mosture level will be down and hey presto or ask James for a extra dried cleft.

[Canners]

I'm guessing these don't last as long?

[SillyShilly]

Probably a conversation already covered in another thread, but this extended drying process in airing cupboard is surely going to take away more sap (which acts like glue for the whole bat) than is advised and hence the bat will almost certainly be more vulnerable and likely to break. However, i'm sure there is an art to reducing moisture once that bat has been made and getting timings correct so that the bat retains enough moisture is the tricky part.