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its less about even taper and more about moving weight/center of mass around. Youth bats have been doing that for quite a while. Camwood bats is a great example of moving weight around. In their case, its a training bat.


Can you take it a step further with uneven wood density?

Like growing the tree with part of the branch under compression.


Oh, I like this. Feels like something you'd see in NPB with teams recruiting Bonsai masters to grow bats.




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