Why this exists
The handle is whatever turns up.
Players will talk for twenty minutes about edge profile and pickup, then accept whatever handle the bat came with. But the handle is the only part of the bat you actually touch. If you have found one that fits, it is worth more than any other spec on the bat, and it is the easiest one to lose.
We match handles for the best players in the world: Test cricket, the Big Bash, Sheffield Shield, the WBBL and leagues around the world.
How it works
Captured once, used forever.
No willow, no grade, no cleft, nothing to choose after the fact. The price is known the moment you tell us how many bats.
Tell us how many bats you want re-handled
Up to ten in one booking, and the price is known right there. You pay in full at booking, in store or online.
Photos, and which handle we are copying
Tell us which bat has the handle you want. It might be one of the bats being re-handled, or one you are keeping.
Send them in, or bring them
Post them or drop them into the Brisbane workshop, your call.
We capture the profile and keep it
Yours, on file, permanently.
Every re-handle from then on is that exact profile
Including bats you have not bought yet.
Come back in five years
It is still there.
The whole price, on this page.
All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
The capture: $495, once
It is the recording, not the paperwork. Your handle profile is measured properly and kept on file permanently.
Re-handle: $130 per bat
With a full clean up while it is apart: $180 per bat. Flat.
More bats, a small saving each
2.5% off the per-bat lines for two bats, 5% for three, 7.5% for four, 10% for five or more. Never on the capture fee. All on one invoice. Bats that also need repair while they are here get the same per-repair discount, at the same tier, capped at ten percent.
Repeat customers pay re-handles only
No capture fee, ever again. Every re-handle from now on is just the re-handle price.
What the total comes to.
More bats, a real saving on the per-bat work. The setup fee is one price no matter how many bats.
| Bats | Discount | Per bat | Repeat visit total | First visit, capture included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bat | - | $130 | $130 | $625 |
| 2 bats | 2.5% | $126.75 | $253.50 | $748.50 |
| 3 bats | 5% | $123.50 | $370.50 | $865.50 |
| 4 bats | 7.5% | $120.25 | $481 | $976 |
| 5 bats | 10% | $117 | $585 | $1,080 |
Standard re-handle at $130 per bat before the multi-bat discount. A full clean up while it is apart is $180 per bat: add $50 per bat to any line, before the same discount. Six bats or more sit at the ten percent tier. All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
The flagship
Recreating the whole bat? Bat Match.
Cooper Bat Match records the shape of the bat: $495, once. If you want your handle profile captured in the same session, add Cooper Handle Match to the Bat Match booking for $300 more, making the two captures $795 together. Shape and handle both kept forever.
Players with more than one bat.
A player with several bats who takes it seriously enough to want them all to feel the same in the hands. If you have ever picked up your second bat and thought "this isn't it", this is the fix.
Stickers on a re-handled bat
It depends on the finish you pick.
Re-handle only
We do not take stickers off unless you tell us to. The old handle is cut out through them, so the bat comes back wearing the same stickers with a cut line at the splice. Nothing to choose and nothing to pay.
With a full clean
This is the one to take if you want the stickers whole. They come off as part of the clean, so you pick what goes back on. A Cooper set is $39, and stickers you supply yourself are fitted at no charge.
Your own artwork
If you hold the rights to it: $99 setup once, plus $39 for the sticker set. Full clean only, for the same reason.
Play under a bat sponsor? Your bat gets finished the way your contract needs, and handled discreetly. Talk to us before you book.
The terms, in plain words
Your bats come back together
Every bat goes home re-handled with your profile, checked over before it leaves the bench.
Ready in 14 to 21 days
Counted from payment, the same window as a custom bat.
The $495 is paid once
Your handle profile stays on file permanently. Come back in five years and it is still there, and it still costs nothing to use.
Freight, plainly
Getting the bats to us is your cost: post them signed-for, or drop them into the Brisbane workshop. Pack them well, and if a bat is irreplaceable, add transit cover at the post office. Return delivery is free on Australian orders over $150, and $15 flat under that.
Ready to standardise your handles?
Start your Handle Match in a couple of minutes. Tell us how many bats, show us the handle, and send them in.
Recreating a whole bat? See Cooper Bat Match.