Item TB495
This Item was Sold on 10 August
2022 for $158
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This Lap Joint was made in 1984 in the shape of the Binghi Eagle. The boards on the lower surface are Birds Eye Maple. The upper surface is a blend of fancy Maples and exotic hardwoods. The elbow is also Birds Eye Maple, but it is a choice piece with a dense concentration of Bird Eyes. The tips are made out of a choice piece Curly Maple, also called Tiger Tail Maple. Ray Rieser purchased a beautiful antique gun stock and ripped the boards down to 1/8 inch planks and sent them to me to make a lap joint out of Curly Maple for his collection. The tips are from the excess wood and it was perfect for the tips on this boomerang. The woods used in the mid span are all African species. This includes borders made out of Ebony. The interior woods include Purple Heart ( Amaranth ) and Zebrawood. The deep red diagonal strip is Vermillion All of these pieces are a full 1/8 inch thickness and not thin veneers. I traded this boomerang soon after making it and it traveled throughout several collections. Several years ago, I found it in an estate liquidation and purchased it back for my own collection. It id in excellent condition and as nice as the day it was made nearly 40 years ago. One of my favorites.
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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