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[WalkingWicket37]

Evening all

Following a post on here about over oiling, there was a suggestion from @smilley792 to oil a bat every day for 2 weeks and see what the result was.
That gave me an idea to get hold of a broken bat and try this. I got hold of a bat and have just finished sanding the face back to one colour (big thanks to @joeljonno for providing the bat).

Anyway, the pictures should be fairly self explanatory, one broken bat divided into sections, a bottle of linseed oil and in two weeks time I'll attack it with a saw!

P.S any suggestions for the final section? I'm thinking a coat of bat wax buffed off after 1 hour (applied properly in other words!)

[Chalkie]

Sounds like a great experiment to me. Just out of interest what was the bat like before it was broken, Grade 1? (Grains look nice).

[WalkingWicket37]

No idea on the official grading mate, got it in it's broken state specifically to hack up.

If you ignore half the back being gone it taps up very nicely, and ,as you say, the grains look nice

[KIPPERS]

ok myth-buster. If oiling the bat seals it surely subsequent oiling wont sink in. I'm just posing hypothetical questions. If you over soak it first time before its sealed it should sink in.

PS i don't bother anymore. I just bat wax them with my own home made Poo. All bat myths are mumbo jumbo and voodoo majik, which off course doesn't mean they are not true or don't work.

Good luck will follow with interest.

[WalkingWicket37]

ok myth-buster. If oiling the bat seals it surely subsequent oiling wont sink in. I'm just posing hypothetical questions. If you over soak it first time before its sealed it should sink in.

PS i don't bother anymore. I just bat wax them with my own home made Poo. All bat myths are mumbo jumbo and voodoo majik, which off course doesn't mean they are not true or don't work.

Good luck will follow with interest.

That's exactly what i'm expecting to happen, I'm guessing 2-3mm of penetration into the wood at most, with the only noticeable difference being the colour the willow goes!

Oil will soften the willow fibres, so a bat with more oil applied when new will hypothetically need more knocking in to get it "ready to play" than one with fewer coats of oil applied. Unless you manage to apply to enough to rot the willow I doubt over oiling will ever be a real issue (except the possibility a scuff sheet won't stick)

[joeljonno]

Was a V100 Select - Waugh Zone.  Top bat when I had hit. Went big a lot of the time.


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[KIPPERS]

Not sure if it even penetrates that far. Even an old bat that's been oiled for years. A couple of passes with a sander reveals almost virgin wood. Mind I did see a Millichamp video where he cut an over oiled bat in half that seemed to show the oil penetrating quite far.

[WalkingWicket37]

We'll find out in two weeks! 

[jwebber86]

Great idea the results will be interesting to see

[No.4]

I'm looking forward to the results of this.

[tejasapatel]

Great effort dude...looking forward to end results.

[tim2000s]

All this will show is how deep the oil penetrates if a lot is applied. It doesn't demonstrate the impact on performance of the bat, if there is one!

[OwzatOllie]

Interesting idea Cam.  Look forward to seeing what the result is

[InternalTraining]

All this will show is how deep the oil penetrates if a lot is applied. It doesn't demonstrate the impact on performance of the bat, if there is one!

Do you think that the bat/willow keeps absorbing the oil if applied constantly? I suspect that willow reaches an equilibrium and stop absorbing oil after certain amount. Naturally, that point of equilibrium would vary depending on different trees.

[WalkingWicket37]

Three day update!

The no oil, one coat, 3 coats and bat wax applied properly are now complete. These are the widely used methods I'd guess.
Will be interesting to compare the "properly oiled" sections to the "over oiled" sections when it's done.