haha yeh . ive never had a problem with the pine wood i use. adn i dont seem to notice if the water logging makes a difference. i have broken a couple of bats , but the fact that more other peoples bats have broken against me must count for soemthing. and i use a sander to do all the edges, is very time consuming for me so used to just get dad to do it and woose out but not anymore. and then spray paint with a matt paint and the bats always grip enough. execpt one time i used a gloss paint , that didnt work out.