Get a bail guard

We do not sell anything. The design is free and open, so the fastest route is almost always to make your own from parts you can buy locally.

Make your own

Four inexpensive parts, all standard items from a hardware store. No specialist tools, no 3D printing, nothing to order from us. One set takes a few minutes to put together, and a whole league can be kitted out in an afternoon.

Prefer to watch? The full video playlist covers the design and the setup.

Manufacturers

The design is published under CC BY 4.0 as prior art, so you are free to manufacture and sell bail guards commercially. You do not need our permission and you owe us nothing.

Talk to us anyway, because we can probably save you time. There are several working variants of this design, and which one suits you depends on what you already have: your tooling, your materials, whether you are moulding silicone or sourcing off the shelf parts, and how many sets you need. Tell us your constraints and we will suggest the variant that fits them, share what failed in our own trials so you do not repeat it, and point clubs and leagues towards you once you are producing.

Tell us your story

If you have made your club, your league or your kids’ academy safer with a bail guard, we would love to hear how it went. What your umpires made of it, what you would change, how many sets you ended up making. Send us your story with photos or video and we will add it to this site, so the next league has someone else’s experience to learn from rather than starting cold.

We are setting up a contact address for this. Until it is live, the fastest route is to open an issue on the field trial repository, and we will reply there.

Anish: this page needs one thing from you. I have deliberately not published an email address, because your personal address should not go on a public page. Pick one of these and tell me which:

1. A new project email, for example bailguard@gmail.com, which is the cleanest option and keeps your personal address private.
2. A Google Form. Create one asking for name, role, league or company, how many sets, and location. Send me the link and I will wire the button to it.
3. A WhatsApp link, if you would rather it went to a phone. Note this publishes the number.

Option 1 or 2 is what I would choose. Until you decide, the button above is inactive.

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