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Maple, Hard Baseball Billet - 2-3/4" x 37"

Item 160198
Model Maple EcoBat Billet

$28.99

Turn your own custom hard maple baseball bat with these hand selected baseball bat dowels. These unfinished blanks are 2-3/4" diameter and 37" long and are easily turned for an all-American heirloom baseball bat, perfect to keep or give to friends and family.Maple (Acer saccharum)...

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Turn your own custom hard maple baseball bat with these hand selected baseball bat dowels. These unfinished blanks are 2-3/4" diameter and 37" long and are easily turned for an all-American heirloom baseball bat, perfect to keep or give to friends and family.

Maple (Acer saccharum) sapwood color ranges from nearly white, to an off-white cream color, sometimes with a reddish or golden hue. The heartwood tends to be a darker reddish brown. Fairly easy to work with both hand and machine tools. Maple has a tendency to burn when being machined with high-speed cutters such as in a router. Turns, glues, and finishes well, though blotches can occur when staining, and a pre-conditioner, gel stain, or toner may be necessary to get an even color. Some common uses for hard maple include flooring (from basketball courts and dance floors to bowling alleys and residential), veneer, pulpwood, musical instruments, cutting boards, butcher blocks, workbenches, baseball bats, and other turned objects and specialty wood items.

Features:

  • Turn your own baseball bat with these hard maple billets
  • Straight grained
  • Turns, glues, and finishes well
  • Native to eastern North America
Specifications:
  • Diameter: 2-3/4"
  • Length: 37"
  • Shape: Round
What's Included:
  • (1) Hard Maple Baseball Bat Billet - 2-3/4" x 37"
Notes:
  • Wood is a product of nature, and as such, no two pieces are alike to start with, the same wood growing in different locales can vary greatly even though it is the exact same species.
  • Due to the nature of wood movement, shrinkage and expansion are possible. Please measure each piece carefully before starting any project.
  • Cut from quality, kiln-dried stock. The grain runs with the longest dimension.
  • Thin Stock is sawn to +/- 1/8" of the listed size.
  • Carving and Turning Blocks are sawn to +/- 1/4" of the listed size.
  • Plywood sizes are nominal, the dimensions are +/- 1/8" of the listed size.
  • Larger blocks are sawn to +/- 1/4" of the listed size.
  • Smaller blocks are sawn to +/- 1/8" of the listed size.
  • Spindle stock, or stock that is 1-1/2" - 2" wide is sawn to +/-1/8" of the listed size.

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