Ben Dehner made beautiful strip laminated boomerangs at his home in Atchison, Kansas back in the 1980s. The technique that he used for his earliest models was to glue the strips and then wrap rubber strips cut from an inner tube around the pieces until they dried. The early models were made out of a very light hardwood (spruce) strips, making them almost too light for sports throwing for my personal tastes. The later models were made with heavier hardwoods, such as Mahogany and Ash and these boomerangs were wonderful sporting boomerangs that were both functional and very attractive. Ben has not produced any boomerangs commercially for almost two decades, so his models have become quite collectable, especially the models made in the late 1980s.

This Dehner strip laminated omega boomerang is made out of alternating strips af Mahogany and Ash(?). There is a "Ben Dehner" logo on the elbow and a hand stamp on the underside that says " Handcrafted by Ben Dehner ". This is one of the better Dehner boomerangs. The shape is almost identical to that of the Al Gerhards omega, but I am sure that this is only a coincidence and not a direct copy. This boomerang is made out of the heavier hardwoods and is in excellent condition.