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[wayward_hayward]

I'm sure most of you have seen my bat refurbishing skills in my refurb thread. I'm now at a stage where I feel confident to move forward towards making bats and hope to start making soon. Like in my refurb thread, I will post updates of my success and failures to keep track of my progress. Hopefully you enjoy the efforts of a bat nerd trying to become a podshaver.

Current situation

I have one handled and pressed cleft and one that requires both handling and pressing. My tool situation is currently one flat spokeshave and a drawknife.

Below is a basic list of tools required for the job, let me know if I'm missing anything or don't need them.
Drawknife
Spokeshave -flat and round base
Plane (No.4) - flat and round base
Travisher
Rasp

Any advice or tips from any of the bat makers around would be greatly appreciated.

[brokenbat]

You're forgetting a top quality Sharpie.

[wayward_hayward]

A couple more photos of the clefts I have. The grainy handled cleft is bit too nice for a first attempt 

[hanif]

Looks a nice cleft. I would love to have ago at making my own bat. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your progress.

[sanredrose]

Go on @wayward_hayward, we all are rooting for you .. 

[wayward_hayward]

Go on @wayward_hayward, we all are rooting for you .. 

Looks a nice cleft. I would love to have ago at making my own bat. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your progress.

Thanks gents

[Churchy1989]

@WalkingWicket37  have you made any progress on this?

I am very interested in making my own. But very scared of 'c0cking it up'!

[19reading87]

It's @wayward_hayward topics mate not @WalkingWicket37

[wayward_hayward]

Not had an opportunity to start on this yet @Churchy1989

[WalkingWicket37]

What had this got to do with me and why am I getting lots of emails saying I've been tagged?

[dannyhall04]

why am I getting lots of emails saying I've been tagged?

Because you've been tagged, maybe?

[WalkingWicket37]

Because you've been tagged, maybe?

Evidently...
Was more a rhetorical question as to why I'd been tagged in the first place

[FattusCattus]

What had this got to do with me and why am I getting lots of emails saying I've been tagged?

Because you are yet again another victim of the paralysed finger / partially sighted / attention-deficient posting!

[wayward_hayward]

At least it's given me a kick up the backside to get this project going again. Only problem is playing and coaching takes up most of my time at the minute.

[Churchy1989]

Apologies, my bad for tagging.