Dec 09, 2012

It’s been a while since I made a bat and it’s perhaps even longer since I last wrote about making one but there’s a good reason I promise. So we’ll see how rusty I am and hope something coherent comes out. Cricket on the other side of the globe is getting underway and that means [...]

Jun 19, 2012

I thought I would write a little post to show you what a bat manufacturer/ maker can do to reduce the weight of a bat whilst apparently increasing the profile. I say increase profiles (tongue in cheek), but what I really mean is increase the edge.   All the profiles below have approximately the same volume; [...]

Judging a bat by its….. edge. Big edges, everybody’s talking about them, on the forum, in the shops, in the dressing room. I like to go undercover into cricket shops and listen to people when they are choosing a bat, I often hear ”look at the size of this edge, its bigger than that one“ and on [...]

Apr 10, 2012

The story, of Salix, began when Andrew Kember was in his mid teens, he aquired wood, cane, rubber and made his first cricket bat. Robertsbridge based Podshaver, John Newbery was so impressed with what he saw that he took Kember on as his apprentice in 1984. Kember went on to gain further experience at Gray [...]