Item L48
This Item was Sold on 9 September
2021 for $85
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This Lap Joint is a simple Vee shape with a 60 degree angle between the blades. The lap is made using 4 pieces of 1/8 inch hardwood boards. This one is one of the first lap joints made (1983) and it has the Bailey Toledo logo stamped on the underside of the elbow. More than 100 of these lap joints were sold over a 5 year period. This one was retained for personal use because it had unusual flight characteristics. Both blades have a very slight negative dihedral and it requires a light throw with layover and lots of spin. It makes a perfect circle and it flies only inches above the ground. It actually touches the top of grass blades as it goes around in tall grass. It was thrown a lot so it has light wear, but no damage. It was one of my favorite boomerangs for years. I don't recommend throwing it with full power and with a vertical hold. There is a small natural wood flaw or pit on the lower surface of the lift arm.
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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