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Offline tramp

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made a baseball bat
« on: May 12, 2010, 04:01:33 PM »
i know i said i wasn't going to play with wood anymore but:
bought a wood lathe for $100 and started to play with it
made a small baseball bat
and now my mind is thinking legs for a table or stool
egad, what have i created
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Re: made a baseball bat
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 06:25:35 PM »
What kind of wood did you use?  Did you do it with the grain in the right direction?  Pictures?
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Re: made a baseball bat
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 08:02:56 PM »
You are going to have a great time. Wood turning "freehand" style is an artist's pursuit, plus wood has a life of it's own, an organic structure with strengths/weaknesses/flaws.

Great fun!
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Re: made a baseball bat
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2010, 08:52:45 PM »
Don't go the maple route!! Aluminum would be better but that's definitely heresy. Ash is the only Louisville Slugger way to go.
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Re: made a baseball bat
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2010, 10:46:36 PM »
What is this aluminum wood you speak of?

Is that the wood that goes PING?
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Re: made a baseball bat
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2010, 01:06:41 PM »
Quote from: 333 on May 12, 2010, 06:25:35 PM
What kind of wood did you use?  Did you do it with the grain in the right direction?  Pictures?

just used scrap pine for now
got a friend who say's he can get me some ash
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