Sam Livingstone talks cricket bat repairs

WATCH: Ellebrook Sports owner Sam Livingstone describes some of the steps that go into repairing cricket bats.

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00:00So the process you're doing right now, what's that sort of called, why is that important

00:28So as we can see from this side on the turnover, handles break, and handles break in a multitude of ways

00:36They can snap off here, this one's delaminated, and it's probably the main point where the bats do break

00:45Is just here, where the stress point is, so quite often it starts out as a crack that just gets bigger and bigger

00:54Sometimes the handle completely lets go and that's when you see the bats on TV fly out of people's hands

01:01However, re-handles are really difficult because, or more time consuming and expensive

01:09It's about $100-$120 to get this done down in Sydney, but it's $30 to post your bat down there

01:15$30 to get it back and they've got it for 3 or 4 weeks

01:18In the middle of the season you've got to be running another bat, that expense is several hundred dollars to multiple thousands

01:25So what we do here is we shave this down, we get the whole bat back into a form like this one

01:35So this bat's had it's handle redone, and that's what this one will look like after I give it a shave down and refine and sand

01:43So this bat came in, it was a newer bat but the handle had completely let go in it

01:47And this one's for one of the Bowen Central's boys

01:53So this bat's been fixed up over the weekend and has the new handle in it

01:57And I will have this bat here, looking like this one here, with about another hour's work