Love them, would say your the aussie equal of redback mate !
Interesting to see the camitoe?
Thank you E-unit
, Gary from Red Back makes a very nice bat - but Id guess he's made a lot more bats than I have at this stage so I wouldnt like to draw comparisons, but thanks again for the compliment
I hand cut the lamitoe and is come up quite well, but it was quite a tedious process.
Thanks richie, and Tommo - its not that far from my prefered shape, I was mainly following the wishes of the the client and It has ended up quite 'classical' you might say. I do like alot of the profiles that millichamp, redback, farrant and chase tend to shape up but after all I am trying to get the most (balance and rebound wise) out of each individual cleft.
As for prices Its really a P.O.A. thing, depending on what people require.
That said at this stage Im still keeping everthing fairlt locallised.
Willow looks poor
It was bit of a two-faced cleft actually; pristeen on one side, then some birdseyes etc on the other, it was very, very dense (hence fewer grains) but it finished up really nicely. The client actually stipulated that his bat have as fewer grains as possible and When all the academic stuff is dispensed with those few imperfections havent affected perfomance any.
anyway thankyou Sambo, Chaim, danspink,yvk3103 & anyone else I may have missed for your interest.