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1. 
   johnhardy | Jan 24, 2003 12:47am | #1

   I'd use a bandsaw to keep the kerf small.

   I'd use a jig which would ride against the fence. The jig would be set up so that a bat placed against it had the center of each end exactly the same distance from the base of the jig. My jig would be slightly less long than the bat length. I'd have a piece on each end that I could tighten down so that it squeezed the bat into the jig (these pieces would be at a right angle to the fence). Each piece would have two nail ends which protruded slightly so that the bat were held in a position where it couldn't rotate. The end pieces when attached to the bat would only cover the half of the bat towards the fence less about an eighth of an inch.

   When you cut the bat in half the jig isn't cut at all. Cut a bat, loosen each end piece, take the half bat out, insert another bat, tighten down the end pieces, and cut it.

   Once you make the jig you could probably saw a bat every minute. 300 bats should take about 5 hours. Jig time? Probably an hour or two maximum.

   John

2. 
   booch | Jan 24, 2003 12:58am | #2

   I'd use a tablesaw with a jig that you'd (Nail, Tack, Tape, Vacuum hold) the bat in a carriage and then slice it in two.

   300 bats, sounds like nifty wallpaper in a sports bar. If it is a bar installation, I'd use the nailhole that held the bat in the jig to fasten the bats securely to the wall to keep them from being used as exclaimation points in an argument.

   If these are culls from the batting cage in a ballpark then Plan on using a lot of pitch remover on the blade from the left over pine tar.

   You in Louisville?

   Jack of all trades and master of none - you got a problem with that?