Whether it’s Birch or Maple, the process of every single bat starts with hand choosing the perfect piece of lumber for the job. From here, the Birdman team of experts inspect the wood for quality assurance and straightness of grains. Once a clear-cut winner is found, we mark the centers on each end, label it and put it on the lathe. However, before it meets the “saw of destiny”, we must digitally choose the bat model in our man-made inventory of custom and stock programs . Finally, it’s go time! The billet spins and after a few minutes of nothing short of magic, a bat in it’s fuzzy infantile stage is left amidst a cloud of dust on the machine. Like clockwork, it is then removed from it’s grasp and put back into our nurturing hands to be sanded and prepped for the rest of the finishing stages. Hot off the sanding lathe, the bat gets the remaining billet ends sawed off leaving us with a perfectly smooth, raw bat. Some folks like it this way, which means it’s closer to a final product than the others.
