Once the glue on the binding has fully dried, the bat is burnished using a compound wax which polishes and flattens the wood leaving a satin finish.
Traditionally bats were 'boned' instead of polished - the use of a bone or piece of cane to compress the fibres giving both the final finish and a final pressing. |
With Salix and any good bat production, if the pressing and sanding are correct, then the finish is obtained though burnishing, so 'boning' is never necessary. The key to our finish is not a bone or a clever polish, but the quality of the sanding. |
