Stuff you need to make a cricket bat.

Cricket bat making is quite and expensive hobby so be sure you have a good amount of dough before you start. The easiest way to make a cricket bat is to buy a part-made bat from a small cricket company (like Fisher bats http://www.fisherbats.com.au), part-made bats are already pressed and fitted with a handle. Otherwise you spend thousands of dollars buying pressing machines and band saws. Anyway this is how you make a cricket bat from a part-made bat.

Firstly this about what you need:

- Sandpaper various grades
- Binding material (& possibly how you are going to do it, you can hand bind)
- Something to shape shoulders and handle if required (rasp/draw knife)
- Something to sharpen tools with
- Good vice and soft jaws so you don't damage your bat
- A good sturdy bench - when you start shaving with your draw knife the bench will move
- Some soft lead pencils if following lines (an eraser)
- Cloths for oiling
- An idea of what weight of bat you are going to make
- Cricket bat grips and gripping cone