Baseball bat turning template

Cut 4 identical triangles of your thick black fabric. With right sides of the fabric together, sew up the sides of the triangle, leaving the bottom open.

Repeat for the second ear. Turn your bat ears right side out. Hot glue onto a headband. What is a bat with nails in it called? How do you nail a baseball bat? Are bamboo bats legal? What wood bat breaks easiest? What is the strongest wood for baseball bats? Look for bats made from Rock Maple which is the common term for or Sugar Maple trees.

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Fold the peak down to meet the edge of the previous fold. Fold the upper sides into the center line. Fold the plane in half towards you. How do you put a paper bat in? How do you make cute bats? How do you make a origami ghost? How do you make an origami bat bookmark? How do you make a origami balloon? Fold the paper in half downwards to make a rectangle.

Fold in half again. Open the front half of the paper, swinging the flap out and folding it down to create a triangle. Flip over and repeat step. Depending on the surface quality and fairness of the curve, you'll need different amounts of sanding. If the surface is rough and the profile not perfectly smooth, you should start with 80 grit sandpaper. To help smooth out the shape and not make the imperfections worse, it's helpful to back up the sandpaper with a small piece of wood so you're not merely polishing the peaks and valleys.

If the surface is better, you can start sanding with or grit sandpaper. I usually sand in several steps up to but have been cured of trying to sand it smoother by watching my kids throw the bats around and cover them with pine tar. I've found a mixture of oil and varnish to be the best finish. You can buy these types of finishes in the hardware store or make your own mixture. I usually put a few coats of finish on while the bat is still mounted on the lathe. I load a rag up with the mixture and hold it up to the spinning bat.

I use the skew chisel held vertically to make super clean cuts on the end grain. I hone my skew just before making these cuts. If you're using a gouge or a scarping tool, be careful here because cleaning up the marks left in the end grain is almost impossible. Then I clear some room with a parting chisel and leave a shoulder for the saw to ride on.

Then I remove the bat from the lathe and use a small Japanese saw to trim off the little nubs and sand the ends. Most bats these days have a small hollow in the end but it's definitely optional.

You can just leave the end slightly convex and sand it when you take it off the lathe. Because I've made enough of these I've built a jig to hold the bats upright while I rout a hollow at the end.

And then follow that cut with a 1. Some of the commercial bats I've looked at seem to do this step with a drill. If you have access to a laser cutter, you can really make the bat look special.

I mount it on a rotary device on the laser cutter and cut whatever the player wants on it. Before engaving, I cover the area to be cut with blue masking tape as it makes for a cleaner cut. If you don't have access to a laser cutter, you can use a wood burner or you can paint logos and names on the bat.

Labels are traditionally applied to the face grain of the bat and the player knows not to hit it on the label or degrees opposite. This would be a good one for Mythbusters to see if it goes further or breaks more often in one direction than the other. The last step is to apply more finish. I generally wet sand the finish at this point with grit sandpaper and do as many coats as my patience or kids allow before one of them wants to take it out and hit with it. Question 1 year ago.

Hi i just want to know where can i buy a pedestal drill bit baseball cupping. Just the bit, thanks. Hi Carl, thank you for the how-to, you did a great job. Just wanting to know what laser engraver you have used and how do you engrave on the curve of the bats? Thank you! Hi Carl. I was just curious to how long it takes you to make a single bat? Also when you receive your billet, can you start shaping it right away or do you have to let the wood dry first or something like that?

Hello Carl. Sorry if this is the wrong forum to reach out on. I'm looking to have some bats made for the groomsmen in my upcoming wedding. Seeing that you're an SF local guessing by the Gaters I wanted see if you'd be interested helping with this sort of project. I could simply order the bats online, but would much rather be involved in the making process. I understand that a craftsmen's time is valuable, and would certainly make it worth your time.

Thanks for considering! Reply 6 years ago. Thanks but I haven't made any of the bats for sale. I've just made them with my sons and the kids on the little league team I coach I've seen some places online where they make custom bats but don't know any people in SF doing it.

I made a bat on a wood lathe from 3 bits of wood glued together then plane the 4 sides got it all round then shaped the handle took me 3 months as I only worked on it for about 1 or 2 hour a week. Great question and suggestion. I usually work from the barrel down and even sand it as much as possible before moving on to the rest of the bat.

I find controlling the whipping after turning down to the smallest diameter to be the most difficult so I try to do that last. I haven't made as many bats as you but I've made a few dozen. As for the cupping, nowadays I cheat and do it on my CNC router. I built an adjustable fixture that allowed me to center the bat and align the long axis of the bat so it was parallel to the shaft of the bit. I just used some wedges to adjust and some toggle clamps to hold it.

I then did some template routing with a straight bit to get rid of most of the waste and finished up with a cove bit. Next time I'm in the shop, I'll take a photo of the fixture and post it.

I was forwarded a link to this site and your work because I'm trying to build a jig for my router to cup my bats. Your method was suggested. Before I get to that, I would like to offer my suggestion from my experiences.

For me, I found it best to start with the knob first. Although I've made about bats, I have no formal training in wood turning. The knob is the hardest part for me and most difficult to duplicate.

As a result, it's where I have the greatest chance of making a mistake. I like to leave myself as much room as possible for errors. If I start and complete the barrel and then make a mistake in the knob and handle, I can't make any adjustments. With regards to your jig, how do you center the bat? Perhaps it's my lack of knowledge of carpentry, woodworking, etc. Is the router attached to anything? If so, how? Again, this could be my ignorance, but I'm very unclear about how you cup your bats.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide for me. Excellent instructible! I've often longed to make a bat and even bought a lathe some 25 years ago but life intervened and I never got the chance to use it.

You made turning a bat look easy so I think I might finally try my hand at it.