- 1). Acquire wood like maple, ash or hickory. Strap the wood together into six-sided bundles or billets. Paint the ends of the billet with a protective preservative to keep the wood from fraying or rotting. This process is sometimes called "power-bonding."
- 2). Turn and sand the wood until it forms the appropriate shape. It should have a knob at the base to grasp the bat, a thin handle, expanding outward into the "sweet spot" or barrel.
- 3). Make sure the bat meets the major league baseball guidelines, having a total length no greater than 42 inches, with the diameter of the barrel no greater than 2.7 inches or 70 millimeters. Bats come in varying weights, but the average professional bat is approximately 39 ounces or 1.1 kilograms.
- 4). Place the shaped bat into a kiln so that all of the moisture is removed. Once that is finished, then the bat needs to be finished, as in painted with two coats of lacquer.
- 5). Dye the bat using one of the standard colors approved by the sport's governing body: natural white, red stain, black, two-tone blue or white stain.
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