Wood Lathe For Making Baseball Bats

As little leaguers graduate from aluminum and composite bats it s good for them to hone their skills with a classic wood bat.

Wood lathe for making baseball bats.

To make a full size baseball bat you will need a lathe that can handle lengths up to 36 between centers. It is best to have a live center at the tailstock end and drive with either a spur or cup drive. Ash for strength and flexibility maple for power hitting or birch to combine the benefits of both. Computer controlled wood lathe is widely used to mill baluster pillars furniture legs baseball bats banister nunchakus and more.

Cnc baseball bat making turning lathe machine. Pine wood beech wood oak wood mahogany wood camphor wood. Baseball bat blanks create your own custom hard maple or ash wood baseball bat with the baseball bat dowels available from keim lumber in our wood shed. Unfinished wood bats new for 2017 option to upgrade to prime grade maple with an ink dot all of our unfinished wood bats are made from a grade billets and are sanded boned and have full barrels with the option to upgrade to prime grade maple with an ink dot.

Turn from square or round includes 3 blades good for 1000 s of bats each and will make 500 800. It s a relatively straightforward woodturning project. Comes ready to turn bats with 10 included programs and you will soon be designing your own models. To start making a baseball bat you ll need a round blank of wood a lathe and various chisels to shape the bat.

These baseball bat dowels are ideal for turning on lathes available at keim lumber. The wood should measure 37 inches long by 3 inches and be one of the following types depending on your needs. I turned this baseball bat out of. Ash beech birch maple and bamboo.

For little league bats a lathe with shorter capacity will work just fine. Cuts a bat without steady rest in 3 5 minutes steady rest lathes can cause a wobble at the end of the program and jam up our lathes do not.