It takes only two minutes in the CNC — a computerized and numerically controlled lathing machine — to cut, chisel, and reveal one of Axis Bats’ nationally renowned wooden baseball bats from an ordinary maple, ash, or birch millets. 

In front of the computer screen, owner and operator Lou Ledoux stretched the slope of the bat’s handle on the design, able to saved and stored for mass production. The change may have been incremental, but for a batter, “he’ll feel it,” said Ledoux, who spoke passionately about math and physics involved in playing a game of baseball.

Axis Bats has been in business for 18 years, though for the past six years they’ve filled the 28 Anawan St. manufacturing warehouse with sawdust and racks of customized special-order bats, for Major League Baseball teams like the Seattle Mariners, to local ballplayers with a thirst for the sport.

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