Bat Making

Here in our Fremantle workshop we have been preparing for our seasonal slow down.  After a fantastic season we were looking forward to slowing the pace in crafting under the deadlines of players schedules.  The Bradbury’s were not expecting the brakes to be yanked on quite as suddenly as Cricket Australia called an early declaration…

Visitors to our workshop are often intrigued about the origin of the wood that is used to make the Bradbury Cricket bats.  The clefts of cricket bat willow are stacked in the workshop before the crafting begins. However, there is a great deal of work that has already taken place to get them from England…