I wasn't exactly sure on where to put this, so apologies in advance mods, if it's in the wrong section.
I have recently designed this cricket bat. It was an old Gray Nicholls.
Over the years, I've noticed that bats in general havn't always had huge variety in style and creativity and thought that I would knock up my own. I've actually designed and created quite a bit over the years as I love Visual Arts, and have hand-printed countless sports T-shirts and football tops, portraits, some minor murals and more.
I wanted to make an eye-catching '3D' looking bat. I hand carved it, and painted the sword with Artist acrylics. The handle of the sword was stained with a timber stain and the black surrounds was sprayed with enamel paint.
I still have yet to spray the design with a high gloss lacquer which will make it look much more polished, and am working on the brand logo on the face of the bat, and will use linseed oil on the face.
The design is based on a famous Arabian sword, and hope to design some more bats in a series based on Historical Generals and Conquerors throughout the history of Mankind ranging form Richard The LionHeart, Alexander the Great, Roman, Viking, Celts, Samurai, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and much more.
I'd love to get some feedback. What do you think about the design?
EDIT: The photos I had posted were resized and of terrible quality. Sorry
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