How a Bat is Made

Our timber is sent to us from our own mills up in New York and Pennsylvania in a billet shape they're already dry and they're already cut to length. And we bring them in and then they're sorted out by weight so that we know what models can be made out of each piece of timber and they're turned on a Hempel Back Knife machine thats's set up with a template for each model. And we used to hand turn a lot of bats and you have to hand turn a bat, it might take it 15 minutes to turn one back. Now these things will run them through in about 10 seconds. And so after their turn then they're branded, Verne branded, with the with our trademark and also the player's name and the club for which he's playing. And then they're sanded, take off the scorching, the ends are trimmed off and sanded on the end, and then they get to finish depending on what finish the player wants. And once the finish is applied it's run through an oven and dried. And then they're ready to go be shipped.