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"what if we tried to hit a baseball with pieces of organic styrofoam held together with pencils"

Ironically, I was watching woodworking videos immediately prior to this one. The contrast was ... amazing.

I would've been shocked if that bat didn't do exactly what you showed when you used it.

Can't believe this shop lacks basic bar tools, like a bar clamp.

"8 oz...but for those of you who do drugs, 225 grams." Favorite quote from this video LOL

carbon fibre layer will bring the real bat out of this masterpiece...

I love when you guys make random stuff in such a ghetto way. No proper tools, osha and A LOT of just fucking around and having fun with the boys in the warehouse. These kinds of videos have become my favorite type to watch from you guys so please keep em comin!

Do you guys do EVERYTHING the hardest way possible? You know you can order Balsa online in any size/shape you want? Subscribed

That shelf shot at the end is great. Keep doing that.

This was my favorite video I’ve seen in a while hahaha

Every new episode this channel uploads feels more and more like a HowToBasic episode. With a waterjet.

Woah. The bat went further than the ball.

You should make the same exact thing, but just put a 3/8" oak dowel through the whole thing so it doesn't explode.

but can you make it lighter and stronger? Like make it out of carbon fibre, fill it with foam or something.

I'm halfway through the video and anxiously anticipating seeing how many pitches this balsa wood bat actually survives. Mariano Rivera made a career out of breaking normal bats and making it look easy. You're all obviously God tier athletic specimens, so I bet you make it look even easier and I can't see this bat surviving more than a single decent swing with contact.

Me the whole time: "yeah that's going to snap in two" Welp, I was wrong. It snapped in three!

When doing the glue-up, you could have glued all edge-grain to edge-grain by staggering the lengths of the pieces being glued. If you want a light bat that doesn't break so easily, you might also try a balsa core.

The obvious way to go is to make the next bat hollow, that would be even lighter, it would be a Pinger, not a Dinger though.

How destructive would that bat be if you fired it out of your air cannon?

I like how it didn't break at the weak connection point. No, the dowel you used to connect it was so much stronger than the bat, that it broke at the ends of the dowel glued inside.

love how the ball managed to crush and break the bat all at the same time

Right in the sweet spot baby. Good hit. Carbon fiber rod insert perhaps?

Wow. You guys are absolutely terrible builders. I love it. I need more. I expect a "DIY entertainment center build.(Wrong answers only)" video or something similar shortly.

3:47 this moment cracks me up every time

7:20 Being included feels so nice 🙂 thank you sir

I love all the memes you guys add in the videos, especially the spongebob ones.

broke at the glue joints no one could have possibly seen that coming

I would love to see you guys use the lightest wood that actually has some strength and then do the heaviest wood and see which one does better

A real feat of engineering and amazing skills were combined for this video

Unlike the bat, this video was a masterpiece.

Next time stagger the blocks so your not expecting glue to hold it together, (it would probably still break when hit but, it would look like at least one person there wasn't huffing glue.)

you know these guys were the smart and chill group in highschool

Maybe a carbon fiber insert/shank through the center and some epoxy would have kept it together. Though a better idea is a water jet lathe turned carbon fiber bat.

The second you said what wood you would use I knew the outcome but I couldn’t stop watching! Good stuff!

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You could get longer planks of balsa from other places like National Balsa, guys

Make one out of insulation foam and fiberglass it. Should be almost as light but much stronger.

This deserves a redo with a full piece

A dowel down the center of the bat might have worked better than a pencil.

That swing met my expectations perfectly. Lighter materials, ironically enough, don't get enough momentum from a swing to transfer any speed into the ball. Now hear me out Put the waterjet on a bat

Lmao the end of the video 😂

you did the hypothetical thing that secret base joked about in their "One simple rule inspired a full-on heist because that's baseball" video

If u go to hardwood stores, some have pre-made billits for lathe work. The one I go to here in San Diego had some that were 24" long made of balsa wood and I think they could even cut longer ones and were 4" wide. So if u ever do this again, don't go to a craft store, go to a wood working store and go to the precut lathe wood area... 😀

I need to come up with something edgy for you guys to do

He said, "And for those of you that do drugs"😂😂

this channel has come a long way

That's exactly why I expected to happen with the dovetails and pencil LOL

I saw this coming when you said balsa wood, then had to dovetail it together. Still, awesome video. Awesome idea. I'd like to see it done with a full piece of balsa. It'll still fly apart, but I bet it sends the ball farther. Or try it with pine or cedar. Normal bats are made with Ash or other similar wood.

Pro tip: avoid dove tail joints by staggering your glue joints

And that's why bats are made as one whole piece.

Try a sturdy wooden bat hollowed with a metal tube in the center and then wood put back into the tube right at the sweet spot making it light and fast but also hard and sturdy on impact.

That's pretty neat. If you're determined to use balsa, 1 piece or 3 doesn't really matter because of how soft it is. What you can try, is getting a piece of 1/4 20 all-thread that is the length you want, drill all your pieces and use either wood glue or two part Acreglass. Acreglass will give you more strength and help prevent loss of energy when hitting the ball, but acre glass is heavier than the wood glue significantly and it's also harder to work with(it gets everywhere. Also it looks kinda like peanut butter, for the love of all that is holy, do not eat it. It is a lie, it is a temptress and she wants you to fall prey to her perceived deliciousness, but it is a facade!) So you can cut the dovetails still for added strength, you'll just have to put the dovetails together before slotting in the all thread. All this would allow you to thin out the profile of the bat and sort of make up for the added weight of the steel core.

The bat breaks in two halfway through being made "Oh. So I guess they're going to start over again" **They glue it back together** _"Ah. I see where this is going now."_

this was like watching a bunch of patricks from spongebob make something. i know at some point during filming someone said "yeah i hope it breaks in the waterjet so the video will be longer"...to play an add

The next video better be a bat made out of a solid piece of balsa - else riot.

Save the wood pulp cut off by the water jet and make it into paper. Then draw batman swinging a bat on it and call it "bat-paper"

09:55 is where the balsa wood bat predictably splinters when swung

Use a solid piece of solid balsa or basswood to make the bat. Core the barrel with a improved polymer. Resin and kevlar the outside. There is you dinger bat.

Mitchell's laugh was probably the highlight of this video and I shan't apologize for that comment.

Pretty much what I expected.

This is for the whole CREW. your field engineering skills are superb .

3:15 My "fun first safety second" motto has been vindicated!

Where did they go why it chang e the host

if you glue together the wood like a brick layer the bat should be much stronger because you have no parting line vertical to your stress lines.

5:40 we all imagined this when you saw a pencil next to sandpaper

That was exactly the outcome I was expecting

You can do what swords do: have the weight at the base of the bat so the tip moves faster. I'd fear it would be a pretty bad bat but what do I know?

You should've made a bat out of black ironwood

That bat did exactly what I thought it would do

Water jet wood turning. That's satisfying

The sound though. And yeah this is why balsa isn't readily available in long pieces.

What happened to these guys?

Def gotta have another go at it please buy the damn right wood next time

I think wood bats are rammed through dies rather than lathed, they're squished into shape.

I have not seen the end yet but after seeing the pencil dowel, I give this bat 1 good swing before exploding. Edit: I was not surprised at all haha

5:38 best part

Could always do balsa or cedar strips and glue/laminate them for added strength.

Make it from one solid piece of balsa

You've got to revisit this one with a longer piece of wood if possible.

This shop has a giant hand operated press, but no bar clamp.

The no comment ending while they are putting the dinger up on the shelf is great

>Surely there's no way these guys outsmarted engineers at every bat making company *Bat explodes* Well it felt good to be right at least lol

ballsa is combination of ball and salsa

Where is Mitchell

They probably could have carved the entire bat with a butter knife due to how soft balsa wood is. Probably would have been faster that way also

COMPLETELY saw that coming

Love the videos guys!!! More videos!

Love the ding right on the D in Dingers.

next try a form and fiberglass bat, you can even be used to say method to shape the foam

1:43 lmao the wood is "floating" away

Should have used proper woodglue

That was so ridiculous. Thank you.

can you stabilize balsa wood in resin and a vacuum chamber? how tough would that be?

yall should revisit this, i found balsa wood in long pieces for sale on ebay

Should have used a long piece of alltread rod down the center with nuts and washers on both ends to try hold it all together.

I think all of knew what was going to happen. That didn’t stop me from watching the whole video though.

Woodworkers everywhere can't believe their eyes.

big thx for putting in metric measurements

You could say that the balsa wood bat is a one-hit wonder