18th Century bat and the MacLaren story.

Lloyd Callen with a load of processed and air dried Junior and Senior clefts.

Worked Clefts ready for a handle fitting.

With the handle fitted, the shaping processing begins.

Ian Callen with his favourite tool, the draw knife.

Completed callen bats.

Red and blue label at the A.C. MacLaren Plantation.

Finished Bats

A distinctively Australian product and proud of it.

Callen Bats - a product of the sustainable and renewable Willow Blue Cricket Forestry and Carbon Trading Project.

Callen Red Label.

In the workshop, the finished product.

Callen Cricket - bats, clefts and protective equipment.

Willow Blue bat willow.

Butterfly stain in the timber indicates quality strength and rebound. It is a natural characteristic of the Willow Blue Bat Willow or the Salix Alba Caerulea (English Willow) tree.