Abstract: A process for manufacturing wooden billets, baseball bats and billiard/snooker cues is disclosed. The process comprises softening the hardwoods and willow, which are typically North American Hardwoods and English and Kashmir willow having moisture content between 30-70%, by steaming, and then compressing the softened hardwoods and willow by longitudinal compression processes along the length to cause the axial fibres to cross-link. The process aims at providing wooden billets, baseball bats and snooker cues having uniform performance standardization, improvement in durability, strength, acceptability, anti-breakage and flexibility.