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Old 09-04-2019, 03:14 PM   #1
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baseball bats for plugs

Hopefully I didn't repost, but I am in Yarmouth now and have 6 or 7 hardwood baseball bats that were my dad's. Don't know if they'd make plugs for some one with a lathe. Or they go to the dump...I love the Yarmouth dump, haven't seen Guppy there yet but I'm sure I will sooner or later, I go every day.

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Old 09-04-2019, 05:46 PM   #2
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I go when she starts screaming at me...
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Old 09-04-2019, 06:32 PM   #3
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I go when she starts screaming at me...

oh man that is funny





That dump is great, I have been there before

Those bats might be more valuable as bats than plugs, aren't bats made from maple now?

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Maple bats make great needles and darters. Ash not the best.
Look at grain. Smooth surface , maple. Bumpy feel its ash.
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Old 09-05-2019, 08:03 AM   #5
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They're all ash.

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Old 09-05-2019, 12:48 PM   #6
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They're all ash.
U can use but not a favorite. I custom turn baseball bats. I also have plenty of broken bats. I did some ornamental ash plugs. After turned and sanded, I torch the grain lengthwise to get that flame temper effect. Then I epoxy w/ ETex.
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Old 09-06-2019, 07:53 AM   #7
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Also had some aluminum bats and old golf clubs. Put a Free sign out and they all went.

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Also had some aluminum bats and old golf clubs. Put a Free sign out and they all went.
I was there today and didn’t see youuuuuuu

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I was there. You probably missed me because I was in the old oil and antifreeze return shed for a while. Seems stoic old washashores changed their own oil then hid it in the yard in old laundry detergent containers for later generations to find.

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I was there. You probably missed me because I was in the old oil and antifreeze return shed for a while. Seems stoic old washashores changed their own oil then hid it in the yard in old laundry detergent containers for later generations to find.
Geeesh, I also emptied a 5 gal. oil.... ha

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Made numerous plugs from Japanese maple, the best, Mizuno, American ash and maple bats too. Also local ,milled ash, which has a heavy grain, but the plugs work fine.

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Made numerous plugs from Japanese maple, the best, Mizuno, American ash and maple bats too. Also local ,milled ash, which has a heavy grain, but the plugs work fine.
Frank i still have a bunch of maple bats i turned into 2" round blanks.
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Frank i still have a bunch of maple bats i turned into 2" round blanks.
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I will take any you want to get rid of.

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Lets see if theres a get together in the future.
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