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Equipment => Bats => Bat Making => Topic started by: SwingAndMiss on August 03, 2015, 01:28:48 PM

Title: extra long handles?
Post by: SwingAndMiss on August 03, 2015, 01:28:48 PM: Does anyone know any suppliers of extra long handles? Tried the mongoose website with no luck, so any other help appreciated.
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Post by: Buzz on August 03, 2015, 01:36:21 PM: try hunts county
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Post by: Ryan on August 03, 2015, 05:44:50 PM: Try Charlie French, he makes his own after all.
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Post by: Bambooman on August 03, 2015, 06:36:56 PM: JS Wright will sell you Long handles without an account but you'll probably need to buy 15-20 at a time.
How many do you want?
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Post by: Ryan on August 04, 2015, 11:16:54 AM: All handles are a standard length - that's why I suggested Charlie. It's the blade length that makes it in to a LH or LB.
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Post by: Topgun on August 04, 2015, 11:32:52 AM: Quote from: Ryan on August 04, 2015, 11:16:54 AM
All handles are a standard length - that's why I suggested Charlie. It's the blade length that makes it in to a LH or LB.
Oh, i thought that LH means that it had a longer handle and LB meant that it had a longer blade.
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Post by: Bambooman on August 04, 2015, 12:14:59 PM: Quote from: Ryan on August 04, 2015, 11:16:54 AM
All handles are a standard length - that's why I suggested Charlie. It's the blade length that makes it in to a LH or LB.
When not making my own, I buy two sizes from JS Wrights, sold as LH or SH, The LH is physically longer and is the handle I use for LH bats whilst maintaining the same length splice in the blade.
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Post by: Seniorplayer on August 04, 2015, 01:06:31 PM: Quote from: Topgun on August 04, 2015, 11:32:52 AM
Oh, i thought that LH means that it had a longer handle and LB meant that it had a longer blade.

You can get longer handles for standard length clefts I know a well known batmaker who makes them.
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Post by: GarrettJ on August 04, 2015, 01:07:31 PM: you can get long handles

i used a long handle long blade bat the other day
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Post by: Kez on August 04, 2015, 01:08:48 PM: Im going to stick my neck out and say that mongoose didnt actually use an extra long handle.

If you compare splice position they are the same as a 'normal' bat, the difference is just a drop in the shoulders, meaning an extra long handle is not needed.
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Post by: WalkingWicket37 on August 04, 2015, 01:12:46 PM: Quote from: Kez on August 04, 2015, 01:08:48 PM
Im going to stick my neck out and say that mongoose didnt actually use an extra long handle.

If you compare splice position they are the same as a 'normal' bat, the difference is just a drop in the shoulders, meaning an extra long handle is not needed.

Wasn't the bat spliced into the handle rather than the traditional handle spliced into the bat too??
Title: Re: extra long handles?
Post by: SwingAndMiss on August 04, 2015, 01:52:00 PM: Just seen a photo of a stripped down mongoose and it is a regular short handle with the shoulders taken right down. Not what I expected. Plan for a mutant bat out the window. Sorry for wasting folks time, thanks for the replies tho