It was a wild weekend of boomerang making.
I had a bit of free time late Friday afternoon so headed into the shop. I managed to sand some boomerangs and get them ready for testing. Saturday morning early I sanded some more. I had more than 3 dozen boomerangs to test so headed to the field on Saturday afternoon. I was surprised to find only a few guys hitting a baseball around and not a full fledged game in progress. I took part of the field where they were not. The field was sloppy from the rain the previous night and the wind was blowing pretty hard. I started testing some of the lighter stuff but the wind was blowing it around too much. I switched to polypro and polycarb booms to fight the wind but the wind got even stronger. Finally I had polycarb booms flying 40 meters behind me so I gave up and went home. Back home I crunched through another dozen blanks and closed up hoping for better weather on Sunday.
Sunday morning proved to be a bot better as it approached lunchtime. I headed to the field again only to fing a baseball game in progress. I headed to an alternate field and managed to get through most of the boomearangs before the teams showed up to play ball on that field. Back home again and I managed to finish sand all the plywood boomerangs I had tested. I also primered the ones I was going to paint. Barb and I took off for a couple hours and when I returned, I started to paint. I think I got 19 boomerangs finished. I have a couple more to do and at least 8 to do pen and ink artwork. There are still at least a dozen, maybe close to 18 boomerangs from polypro or polycarb which need to be prepped for painting. Soon I'll have pretty nice supply and may even begin to sell a few again.
BoomerangDave
Photo: some finished boomerngs from the weekend.
Sunday morning proved to be a bot better as it approached lunchtime. I headed to the field again only to fing a baseball game in progress. I headed to an alternate field and managed to get through most of the boomearangs before the teams showed up to play ball on that field. Back home again and I managed to finish sand all the plywood boomerangs I had tested. I also primered the ones I was going to paint. Barb and I took off for a couple hours and when I returned, I started to paint. I think I got 19 boomerangs finished. I have a couple more to do and at least 8 to do pen and ink artwork. There are still at least a dozen, maybe close to 18 boomerangs from polypro or polycarb which need to be prepped for painting. Soon I'll have pretty nice supply and may even begin to sell a few again.
BoomerangDave
Photo: some finished boomerngs from the weekend.
Added on April 14, 2008 by bvdrangs
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