Been a busy time with bats and working on a few improvements to the workshop. Wanted to create a better display area and office space, as this was just a small, uncovered corner of the workshop. Now built a closed off 'pod' within the workshop, which feels a much nicer place to have customers visit, display bats/softs etc and for me to doing the boring side of things (not making bats basically! 😣).
Still more work to do to hide the fridge away from sight (essential for milk/tea but not very easy on the eye), which will then be a space to display bags. Also need to upgrade the lighting and get softs on the shelves too.
If anyone has any other suggestions or things which there feel people would like to see in a space such as this, let me know. Obviously I'm working in a small workshop, but hopefully it's a more inviting space for customers now.
Also shaped this one yesterday for the bat rack. This has been my most popular stock shape, the JS170 low middle. Edge is 36mm but only gentle concaving and a big spine height as you can see. Grade 2 and will be 2lbs 10.5oz to 2lbs 11oz fully finished.