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Jeff,
We have a baseball bat factory here and they said no finish, if you
want to oil it, fine, but they don't use a sealing finish. I just get
their reject blanks for mushroom toothpick holders, never turned a bat
mayself.

Ruth
www.torne-lignum.com

Ruth,

Did they give a reason for putting no finish on their bats? Seems the
Louisville Sluggers I had as a kid were finished with something. But then
the most recent wooden bat I bought my daughter (okay this was roughly 15
years ago) had a black finish to the handle area, then bare wood.

Jeff