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Equipment => Bats => Bat Making => Topic started by: Pelican042 on November 18, 2014, 08:31:02 PM

Title: 1962 bat making video
Post by: Pelican042 on November 18, 2014, 08:31:02 PM

Interesting watch: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O94eGoJk4bE (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O94eGoJk4bE)

Title: Re: 1962 bat making video
Post by: Boondougal on November 18, 2014, 09:24:12 PM

Love that

Title: Re: 1962 bat making video
Post by: DACD 1987 on November 18, 2014, 09:56:32 PM

The process hasn't changed in 50 odd years  :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OO_fiOvq8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OO_fiOvq8)

Title: Re: 1962 bat making video
Post by: Chad on November 19, 2014, 01:04:59 PM

Process hasn't, but the time taken has! I think John Gasson at Gray Nics said in a video that he could make anywhere between 100-120 bats a day before bats became modernised, (I'm guessing he was talking about the shaping process) but was limited to about 10 a day just before he retired, because having to concave a bat adds a lot more work in!