See how a Utah company crafts custom baseball bats [Video]

RIVERTON, Utah — A Salt Lake County business is swinging for the fences.

American Batsmith started producing wooden baseball bats in 2018. Since then, the business has grown and now ships thousands of bats to its customers annually.

“The crack of the bat. It is very Americana,” said Jacob Huff, the founder of American Batsmith. “That just brings in that baseball feel, that American feel.”

Huff runs the business out of a garage with a small staff of employees including his brother and three others.

Every bat starts with a maple cylinder. A cad design loaded into a computer tells a lathe machine the size and specification of each custom-made bat.

After several minutes, the cylinder takes on the shape of a bat. It then goes through several rounds of sanding before receiving a lacquer coating.

Every bat is engraved with its specifications and can be personalized with the name …