Another lunchtime testing session.
Well the rain went away and the high winds died down so it was off to the field at lunch. I started out with Kendall's Ninja 5 blade. What a fun boomerang. It had such a nice hover that I was tempted to do a finger catch. Next up was David Fantones' Boomerang Fever quad from ABS. That had nice range and a straight down hover for easy catch. I switched to a plexiglass version of David's "Darth Maul quad" that I made from a photo. It worked real well too. Time to leave the multiblades behind.
I decided to test a Cleveland Boomerang School Crab which I bought for 99 cents on Ebay. I was surprised at its range. Next up was a nicely painted Manta of mine, which is sort of a combnation of a Skippy and a Boomerang Fever. This one flew as great as it looked. I think the photo is in the gallery in the "Just Boomerangs" album.
Last on the list were 5 polypro boomerangs I shaped the other evening. The Gel Sunshines were just fine but the Omni of my design was getting out around 40 yards. I really liked those even if I did have to do some tuning to get full returns. I think with a bit of wind they would have been fine. I really wasn't expecting the winds to be so light after what we had recently.
Evening update: Temps got near 50 so I took a bit of time to make couple more boomerangs. The photo show a Darth Maul quad in the center, a design by David Fantone. Also shown are 4 Colt boomerangs designed by my son Vince. These are all in 1/8" polypro. The painted Colt is one made by Vince at least 10 years ago, maybe longer. The unpainted ones do not have the holes drilled yet. Testing will have to wait until this next batch of rainstorms move on out.
BoomerangDave
I decided to test a Cleveland Boomerang School Crab which I bought for 99 cents on Ebay. I was surprised at its range. Next up was a nicely painted Manta of mine, which is sort of a combnation of a Skippy and a Boomerang Fever. This one flew as great as it looked. I think the photo is in the gallery in the "Just Boomerangs" album.
Last on the list were 5 polypro boomerangs I shaped the other evening. The Gel Sunshines were just fine but the Omni of my design was getting out around 40 yards. I really liked those even if I did have to do some tuning to get full returns. I think with a bit of wind they would have been fine. I really wasn't expecting the winds to be so light after what we had recently.
Evening update: Temps got near 50 so I took a bit of time to make couple more boomerangs. The photo show a Darth Maul quad in the center, a design by David Fantone. Also shown are 4 Colt boomerangs designed by my son Vince. These are all in 1/8" polypro. The painted Colt is one made by Vince at least 10 years ago, maybe longer. The unpainted ones do not have the holes drilled yet. Testing will have to wait until this next batch of rainstorms move on out.
BoomerangDave
Added on April 03, 2008 by bvdrangs
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