Bat display

[bnorth]

Awesome stuff everyone, I got screws and paint today so will post a pic of the finished product tomorrow.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Awesome stuff everyone, I got screws and paint today so will post a pic of the finished product tomorrow.

Will be cool to see after painted and the bats are in....

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Will be cool to see after painted and the bats are in....

This is close to done.

I now need to order some bat tubes for the horizontal ones. For a practice one to see how it would work I think it turned out really nice. I eventually want to make a nice mahogany or hickory one. With the price of the wood I figured my test one better be out of pine. I have around $100 into materials on this one. I used one 1X8, two 1X6, one 1X4, and one 1X3 all 6 foot long.

Now to buy more bats to fill this one up so I can make another one.

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by bnorth

This is close to done.

I now need to order some bat tubes for the horizontal ones. For a practice one to see how it would work I think it turned out really nice. I eventually want to make a nice mahogany or hickory one. With the price of the wood I figured my test one better be out of pine. I have around $100 into materials on this one. I used one 1X8, two 1X6, one 1X4, and one 1X3 all 6 foot long.

Now to buy more bats to fill this one up so I can make another one.

Looks GREAT to me! Did you decide to go with just dark blue on the whole display rather than add the red? Personally I think it looks nice just the one color.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Looks GREAT to me! Did you decide to go with just dark blue on the whole display rather than add the red? Personally I think it looks nice just the one color.

To be honest I am a cheap ass. I might get one of those small $5 cans of red and just do the center section that holds the vertical bats.

EDIT: Since I mainly collect Wade Boggs bats I added this poster to the display. Itis a SGA from Wade Boggs day when the Devil Rays celebrated Wade getting #3000. On the back of the poster it gives details of every one of those 3000 hits.

[bnorth]

Finally got bat tubes today so I could safely display the horizontal bats. Should have another Boggs bat delivered tomorrow or Friday to add to the display.

[JoeDfan]

That looks AWESOME!

[ChiefBeef]

Originally Posted by bnorth

This is close to done.

I now need to order some bat tubes for the horizontal ones. For a practice one to see how it would work I think it turned out really nice. I eventually want to make a nice mahogany or hickory one. With the price of the wood I figured my test one better be out of pine. I have around $100 into materials on this one. I used one 1X8, two 1X6, one 1X4, and one 1X3 all 6 foot long.

Now to buy more bats to fill this one up so I can make another one.

You might want to put a little felt where the bat rests on the wood. May help keep the paint off the bat. You can get it with sticky backing, cut and apply.