Wood from all 7 Continents!
Item L02
This Item was Sold on 28 August
2023 for $275
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In the early 1980s, Lorin Hawes acquired a small branch of Antarctic Beech from an Australian Scientist who picked up a dead branch from this very rare protected species that exists only at the extreme tip of the Antarctic peninsula that projects up towards Patagonia in South America. The scientist challenged Lorin to make a boomerang with woods from all 7 continents using this branch to represent the continent of Antarctica. Lorin did not feel that he could do this with the 2 or 3 piece lap joints that he made, so he sent the branch to me with the same challenge. I carefully cut the branch into several strips and used the strips to make several of these 7 continent boomerangs. The first one that I made was sent to Lorin Hawes. You can see a photo of it at the upper left on the cover of his soft cover book titled " All About Boomerangs ", co-authored with John Mauro in 1987. This is the second " 7 continents " boomerang that I made and it was constructed in 1986. Antarctic Beech is the thin dark strip that acts as a border about 4 inches from each tip. The Antarctic Beech is bordered using two strips of Baltic Birch plywood from Europe. Both blades have two more strips a little further from the tips and the hardwood triangles between the Baltic Birch strips is Bubinga from Africa. The larger triangular pieces between the Antarctic Beech and the tips is Silky Oak from Australia. Each of these Silky Oak triangles is bordered with Tiger Tale Maple from a 175 year old gun stock that Ray Rieser acquired from an auction house and then he cut it up and sent pieces to me to make a special boomerang for him. The elbow on the upper side is Mahogany from South America. That leaves only Asia to make up the 7 continents. The entire lower surface is made out of Teak from South East Asia. This one is a beauty and among the best that I have ever made. It is in new condition and it looks like the day it was made. I have stored it in a collector's box for the past 35 years. I did throw it carefully a few times when it was made and it was a very good flyer with a flight range of about 30 metres. Please take special care of it as it is rare and one of my best.
Ted Bailey is a retired Aerospace Engineer who has been making and throwing boomerangs since the early 1970s. The first boomerangs he marketed were multibladers sold on the C.S.U. Sacramento campus in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s, Ted sold traditional boomerangs at the West Palm Beach Mall. In the early 1980s, Ted moved to Ohio and started throwing in Ohio tournaments He developed a line of miniature boomerangs that performed well in competition. In the 1980s, new products included lap joint boomerangs made out of exotic woods and high performance competition boomerangs, especially Fast Catch and MTA. Ted was active in the USBA and served as Secretary, President and as a board member in the 1980s. He was the editor of the USBA newsletter, Many Happy Returns, for two decades and also produced two independent publications: Boomerang Journal and Boomerang News. Ted taught Flying Toy classes in several schools located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Currently, Ted is retired and involved in internet marketing of boomerang products. |
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