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Equipment => Bats => Bat Making => Topic started by: wilkie113 on March 26, 2012, 03:22:42 PM
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After getting a cleft off Sam about a month ago, I've been on and off trying to get the cleft somewhere near looking like a cricket bat. Armed with just a spokeshave and a sander, I set to it.
I didn't really have a set shape in my head, I kind of liked the Laver concept on things of taking wood from high on the back and leaving as much wood in the hitting area as possible. Even though the bat's ended up looking nothing like that lol!
Here are the pictures anyway, and I welcome all comments good or bad, and anyone with any advice would be very much appreciated as I have a couple more on there way :).
Fairly happy with it for my first attempt, and as I haven't picked up a woodwork tool since I left school five years ago it's not to shabby!
Here goes, be kind :D
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx149/wilkie113/IMG_0116.jpg)
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx149/wilkie113/IMG_0117.jpg)
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bit of a beast that one mate lol
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Doesn't weigh a lot mate! Only about 2'13
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Looks like a right brute that wilkie. Big bad boom stick :D
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Haha!
When you said that at the batoff I was like that is he on about!
Cheers mate, I'll be using it tonight see what she goes like!
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Good for a first attempt mate. Looks like a full size mongoose
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Cheers mate :)
If it goes anything like that mongoose of Mikes I'll be pleased lol
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Brilliant - Jumbo mees TT - I think this is a really good first go, i am really impressed.
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Looks decent! Im guessing it will go like the clappers.
Looks like a mash-up of of Mongoose, TT and Jumbo.
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Brilliant - Jumbo mees TT - I think this is a really good first go, i am really impressed.
Beat me to it! :o
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Cheers Buzz :) very much appreciated! Cannot wait to give it a go
Need to thank Ryan as well for putting up with me sending him pictures of it all the time to see if it looked okay haha!
Cheers Burdy, I'm hoping it will go like the clappers! I'm sure some people at nets will wonder what the hell it is later on :)
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Where you get your spokeshave? and what other tools would you like?
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Got a couple of cheap silverline spokeshaves from toolstation and just kept them sharp.
Hoping to get a drawknife so I can shape conventional shoulders on the next bat, need to get a better vice/work station as the Black and Decker fold out work bench is utterly terrible!
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Cheers Buzz :) very much appreciated! Cannot wait to give it a go
Need to thank Ryan as well for putting up with me sending him pictures of it all the time to see if it looked okay haha!
Cheers Burdy, I'm hoping it will go like the clappers! I'm sure some people at nets will wonder what the hell it is later on :)
no problem mate, anytime :D
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Hopefully it goes like a cat with it's tail on fire at nets tonight :D
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Got a couple of cheap silverline spokeshaves from toolstation and just kept them sharp.
Hoping to get a drawknife so I can shape conventional shoulders on the next bat, need to get a better vice/work station as the Black and Decker fold out work bench is utterly terrible!
Yup I am using a black and decker at the moment too! its useless. I have to sit on it while shaving the bat to stop it moving its very annoying!
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Yup I am using a black and decker at the moment too! its useless. I have to sit on it while shaving the bat to stop it moving its very annoying!
Pieces of crap aren't they lol! I've piled loads of stuff on the step on mine so it weighs it down a bit
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Nice looking first attempt mate, Were the shoulders TT by design or just happened to be that way ;)...very impressive
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I got tired of trying to do them normally with the spokeshave (school boy error) so just did them like the TT :D
Completely intentional Tush ;)
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haha nice work :) how is the pick-up?
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If you sit on the bench when the bat is clamped in the it stabilizes it completely but limits the amount of work you can do! But yeah they are so bad I need to get a new one.
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haha nice work :) how is the pick-up?
Picks up nicely surprisingly, seems as theres so much wood at the bottom of it lol!
If you sit on the bench when the bat is clamped in the it stabilizes it completely but limits the amount of work you can do! But yeah they are so bad I need to get a new one.
I've weighted mine down with some odd bits of crap I've got in the garage. just lay it across the step mate
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what did u make that with lad a knife and fork?
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Spoon it was simmy! Nice big table spoon
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Spoon it was simmy! Nice big table spoon
like lol
good come back wilkie
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thats good for a first attempt! Im surprised its picks up well, look a bit sledgehammer esque at the bottom, but all in all for a first attempt, its good, wish I could do something half as good as that, I would end up with a hole through the middle of mine :P lol
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like lol
good come back wilkie
Cheers mate :D, Simmy gets you to do all his bat making, I think he should have a go too!
thats good for a first attempt! Im surprised its picks up well, look a bit sledgehammer esque at the bottom, but all in all for a first attempt, its good, wish I could do something half as good as that, I would end up with a hole through the middle of mine :P lol
Cheers mate :) very much appreciated, I was going to use it tonight, but after hitting it with a mallet few times I decided against it lol, using the mallet and getting a few surface cracks probably wasn't a good sign, give it an hours knocking in first i reckon
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Started my second stick yesterday, here is where I am so far!
(http://i750.photobucket.com/albums/xx149/wilkie113/da25b674.jpg)
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Ooh this shape looks nice :) what's the weight on this one at the moment then? I look forward to seeing more TT esque shoulders Wilkie!
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No TT shoulders on this one sorry bud!
It's around 2'13.5 at the moment just need to finish the shoulders and tidy up the edges then it'll be finished after binding obviously :)