Cricket Bat Lore #3: Oiling your bat

James and Ant talk about the Laver and Wood method of oiling your bat.
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[@julianwarmington1267]

This is a really great discussion... i wish i'd been able to listen to it when i bought my A61 in 2013. I think i've oiled it too much, but i'm not sure how to tell. It's certainly pretty dark looking, except for in that super high spine; i'd read or heard somewhere you're not supposed to oil the spine at all, but you were not doing the entire back side of the bat. Is that the modern latest scientific idea on best practise, is it?

[@shakilmanir4882]

Quite a different method to Julian Millichamp, who advocates 3 or 4 coats of oil on all the exposed wood except the splice.

[@mridunashetty1042]

Hello Laver & Wood cricket bat expert I have used bat & not been played for a while now so do you recommend me to do some oiling and protect it with a anti scuff sheet,or any other suggestion from you so that I could make my bat a good one again.

[@CRICKET-BAZARR]

Hej lever wood Can you deliver to sweden

[@shawqatah8306]

How to make the oil from which we are doing oiling

[@Ariyanali786]

You have to buy raw linseed oil.

[@joined2000]

Hi, I have no stickers on the front of my bat now. I just took them off and thought I should oil it a bit. Should I avoid the splice?

[@PremPrakashThangamani]

joined2000 don't oil the splice where the handle is glued.

[@joshuaedwards9589]

Hi gde I have a new ss the face has a tape like finish and the edges has a strip how do I go about oiling and knocking my bat

[@joshstuckey8596]

@@PremPrakashThangamani this might be a bit late but why?

[@shivamkumar-cf9is]

How many times reqard oil bat sir

[@Ariyanali786]

Once should be fine

[@premshankermeghwal1808]

What to do when u have overoil the bat bcoz ihave one and can't do anything

[@sagarshetty3175]

stop oiling and leave it for a long long time oil will dry after a long time maybe a year ...

[@smileplease1325]

Use a heat gun to dry off d access oil. It will probably save a year of wait.

[@tvrteja8837]

May be leaving under sun would do for few days

[@joshuawillcox2766]

How often would you oil a bat

[@puru8770]

Joshua Willcox 1 year

[@julianwarmington1267]

@@puru8770 - Do you mean only once, in the first year you've bought it? Or, do you mean once every year, at the start of each season?

[@puru8770]

Julian Warmington every year

[@j.jansidoss8435]

Can you tell me the properties of linseed oil on wood.

[@steverogers684]

J.Jansi Doss The only thing I can tell you is that other oils evaporate quickly on the bat while linseed oil soaks into the bat.

[@MartynGrimes]

@@steverogers684 Oils do not evaporate. Linseed oil will however, as it 'dries', polymerise. This natural action means the Linseed Oil becomes like plastic. In it's liquid state some will penatrate the fibres and cell voids of the willow (as said above). Once dried the surface could be 'buffed/polished' to remove excess oil & solids that may be left behind (they will be very very small, generally). The oiling described above was prior to knocking-in rather than a maintenance application. A manitenance application will be done to prevent evoporative loses of the natural moisture (resins & cellulose) and lay down a very thin water repellant smear of Linseed Oil (as described above). Loss of natural moisture cannot be replaced by further oiling.

[@willharrisgk1953]

Is it bad that I put two table spoons on?

[@oakleynicholls167]

Yessssssssssssssss

[@Ariyanali786]

It's better to under oil than to over oil

[@Adam-dt9rw]

Which bat is this?

[@geoffboycott2007]

More than half a teaspoon of oil will lead to dead bats.

[@ravimoradia6763]

Catch fire... lol high friction ehh

[@elliotfineberg9503]

My neighbour's house actually caught fire from this very thing. Stored rags from painters finsihing wood in their new home.

[@ramashankarrai2899]

Hindi me

[@ramashankarrai2899]

nice

[@jirensama1622]

@@ramashankarrai2899 khud ko hi nice boltay chutiya hai kya

[@lincolnq2141]

@@jirensama1622 lmaooo