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[Bulldog Cricket]

how are you going to machine the face flat Ryan ? do you have a milling machine ?

[Ryan]

I'm planning on cutting the face of the donor bats and laminating them onto the other blades once they've been planed then they will be pressed and spliced/ shaped and finished. 

[Bulldog Cricket]

I think the key is to get both mating surfaces perfectly flat so that you get a good clean bond.

[Ryan]

That's not a problem. I'm using my bandsaw to cut a thin veneer of willow then I need to plane the face of the lower grade bat before gluing together. 

[procricket]

Get a thin layer of rubber or cork under the veneer mate

[Ryan]

And so it begins.  The first one has been glued and clamped.  On with the second one now.

[rbblack]

Looks like a good winter saturday project Ryan. Interested to see how they turn out.

[smilley792]

The only reason I'd want a laminate, is to have a larger bat than is technically available from a cleft.


So say a 75mm spine is the largest from an oversize cleft? I'd want my laminate to have an 85 mm spine at its sweet spot.

[tushar sehgal]

Don't know much about laminates except for the basics but was wondering if anyone has tried pressing the lower grade part of the lam and then added the thin higher grade on top and pressed it again? not sure if it would do anything but was thinking about how a softly pressed top layer and hard pressed layer under might work well. Obviously the main blade would have to be pressed using flat roller.

[shoab68]

Not sure ryan and I dont think anyone can say for sure.

Having used few laminates myself, i can surely say they perform 10% more than normal bats.

[tim2000s]

Having used few laminates myself, i can surely say they perform 10% more than normal bats.

Then I can only suggest you have never used a good normal bat....

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[Ryan]

Having used few laminates myself, i can surely say they perform 10% more than normal bats.

If the performance improvement is around 10% then why bother?  It's a lot of additional work for a very little gain.

[Simmy]

cant wait to test out one of these

[Gingerbusiness]

If the performance improvement is around 10% then why bother?  It's a lot of additional work for a very little gain.

...and a bat which is technically illegal within the laws of the game...

[Number4]

...and a bat which is technically illegal within the laws of the game...

Simmy scoffs at the laws... HA!!!