ABOUT ME
I started making baseball bats when I was around 10 years old. Even though I wasn’t very good at it at the time, there was something incredibly enjoyable about turning my own bat, and then using it in a game.
Fast forward to now, I’m an engineer, a woodworker and still love playing baseball. When the league I play in switched to all wood bats, it was the best excuse to buy myself a lathe and start making bats again.
The feeling of joy of turning, sanding, and finishing each bat I made came right back to me after years of not making any. It provided more satisfaction that pretty much anything I did in the office at my day job.
So, now I want to make as many bats as I can. I want to see my logo in some one else’s dugout. I want to see some one hit one over the fence with one of my bats, I would do it myself but I am far from a home run hitter. I’ll settle for the line drives where I try to race to third though.
One of my other favorite things to do is to make a bat that I have never seen before. I have a bat that weighs 96oz and sinks in water (yes it is only wood), another bat that weighs 4oz, and multiple bats made from unique/obscure lumber.
All the times I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I never said I wanted to make baseball bats. But I am saying it now. It is already the best “job” I have ever had.
