Holes in a game used bat

[dwolfe12345]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

More examples of damage. That is a needle to air up a basketball I placed inside of the holes. Just so everyones knows the package did have a sticker on it that says it was put through an x-ray machine. Why they felt the need to drill into my item I will never know. I just know I am not a happy camper about the damage to my uncracked Vladdy bat.

[dwolfe12345]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

Interesting story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1179071/Customs-officers-drill-holes-cricket-bats-sent-Pakistan--check-explosives.html

[1929tudor]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

godwulf, if the bat handle is cracked which it looks like it is i would almost bet there are screws under the plugs which the plugs might be wood or putty of some sort.

[godwulf]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

godwulf, if the bat handle is cracked which it looks like it is i would almost bet there are screws under the plugs which the plugs might be wood or putty of some sort.

That actually makes sense, in that the "plugs" do correspond to where the crack is. What I can't figure out is why anyone would go to all the trouble of drilling some very precise holes, placing screws in, and then filling the holes with whatever it is, on a bat like this. I mean, this is not the '30s, when guys were known to "repair" a bat by hammering a few nails into it; bats are not that expensive or scarce these days. Whoever did - whatever this is - had to be with the team, since I got the bat from the team, through the team shop. Weird.

[Bat racks]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

Those are patches from a bad repair made by someone who probably put screws in it & then patched w/ plugs. No touch up or blending done.

[dwolfe12345]

Re: Holes in a game used bat

The bat was never cracked. In the pictures before I bought the item there were no holes. The holes were made during transit.