"charlieb" wrote
In high school, he turned his own baseball bats - four part laminated
bats that had quarter sawn rain all the way round

"George" wrote:

Well, in a cylinder, that's impossible, of course. Has to have two faces,
two quarters.

Impossible, kemosabe? "Of course"?? Engage your brain, though I
personally would not make a bat this way - but I've only made one,
anyway.

4 parts, 2 quarters, 2 other quarters, never more than 45 degrees off
quarter (at the glue-lines). If the Stickley folks can do it with oak
table legs (and they did/do), a turner can do it with a bat if he wants
to. Just six more "impossible" things and you can have breakfast...

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