I was meaning to ask this..
Since you guys have a CNC machine, I would have thought it will be easier to have a desired weight from any cleft by slightly modifying the profile?
Say if you need a lighter bat then you take off one or two millimetres from the back of the bat through out the surface,on the other hand you can add few mm for a heavier bat.
In general you still keep a very similar shape to the original profile but importantly distribution of weight is identical to a bat which was made from a lighter cleft.
So is there any performance related issues which stop you doing that or mainly economical? (ie new design adds time and cost etc..)
There are two things that drive a bat weight;
1. Density of Cleft
2. Volume of model
For the example of the bats on the forum we have said that the volume is set and therefore the difference in weight is driven by the different densities of clefts. The only reason for doing this was to keep the price down for you guys as the design work has been pre done, we called these SERIES shapes i.e. off the shelf designs.
We can alter the model and therefore alter the volume on any shape to make sure we get the desired weight from a cleft - if for example the density was fixed, but by doing this the bat becomes a BESPOKE design and there is an additional charge for this.
Our design capability allows B3 to make any shape you desire, our only restrictions are the starting size of the cleft and the natural range of densities.
Streaky