Item TB515
This Item was Sold on 30 September
2024 for $100
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This large left handed hook was made in 1986 out of 4.1 mm Paxolin material and painted on both surfaces. Volker made this boomerang as a custom lefty for me. It is the same size and weight as the Challenger III. It is a stable and LD boomerang and it has been part of my personal throw kit for almost 40 years. I can throw this one in light to moderate winds and get flights exceeding 100 metres. Although I have thrown it thousands of time,s it has only light wear and no cracks or dings. I has been one of the more important boomerangs in my personal throw kit and I hate to let it go, but I can no longer throw it because of age and loss of vision. I do prefer these large and heavy LD models to the small and thin G12 versions that Volker made decades later.
Volker Behrens was a well known commercial manufacturer of sport and competition boomerang products. Volker was also a competitor and a member of the German International Boomerang Team. Volker was a pioneer in the development of long distance boomerangs and he demonstrated throws of 150 metres in the 1980s with his popular Challenger III Paxolin Hook. Volker made the last of his boomerangs in 2011. He died in June, 2012. His boomerangs have become great collectibles because they are considered to be comparable to boomerangs made by Herb Smith. |
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