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[Red Ink Cricket]

Why don't you get one made where the handle is on the heavy side. A heavier handle will mean slightly less wood in the blade but minimal and won't be noticeable. What it will do is give you the weight you need in the handle without adding the extra thickness in grips.

[smilley792]

Drill a hole in the Top of the handle. Not far. Just about half and inch to 3/4 of an inch down.

Fill with anything heavier than what you removed. Glue it in until it feels good.


The way laver and wood do the honeycombed handle

[trypewriter]

Why don't you get one made where the handle is on the heavy side. A heavier handle will mean slightly less wood in the blade but minimal and won't be noticeable. What it will do is give you the weight you need in the handle without adding the extra thickness in grips.

Great advice.

[Seniorplayer]

The other thing you could try is cut up a grip into 2 inch  lengths and placed them at the top of the handle under your grip until you get the pickup and feel required it does work and doing this is a cheaper option than lead tape but it can get bulky at the top of the handle depending on how many grips are used.

[Seniorplayer]

Drill a hole in the to Not the handle. Not far. Just about half and inch to 3/4 of an inch down.

Fill with anything heavier than what you removed. Glue it in until it feels good.


The way laver and wood do the honeycombed handle

[Seniorplayer]

Have found some heavy metal nuts of bolts  and a small race ballbearing so I'll have a go at doing the above.

[brokenbat]

Instead of drilling, I would advise the golf lead tape approach first. You'd be amazed how even just one layer of tape around the very top of the handle (adds about 0.1 oz, per layer of tape) can make a difference. Next, remove the toe guard (if you are using one) and thats 0.2 oz taken off the toe.. the combination will substantially improve balance. You can also remove stickers which can take off anywhere between 0.3 and 0.7 oz.