baseball bnat jig

[ffjam]

Has anyone made or used a jig for carving names into a baseball bat? If so could you email me details at ffjam@aol.com please

[Mugsowner]

Not sure if this can be done due to the fact that the CW carves on a flat plane and the round surface of the bat would have shallow and deep carvings. Thinking the bat would also need to spin to keep the height correct. Due to the length of a bat, it can be loaded across the X axis as the rotary jig does. Unless someone knows how to get the font to follow the arc of the bat, you would need a fourth axis to rotate the bat that could travel on with the x axis and software to make it all work together. Then again, with all the folks here maybe somebody has an trick in their bag to make this happen.

[bergerud]

This has been thought of before. See for example: https://forum.carvewright.com/showthread.php?27632-Want-to-carve-on-a-Base-ball-Bat&highlight=baseball