Boomerangs: How to Make and Throw Them | 
 enlarge | Author: Bernard S. Mason
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 543491
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 99
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0486230287
Dewey Decimal Number: 688.76435
EAN: 9780486230283
ASIN: 0486230287
Publication Date: June 1, 1974
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Dozens of designs: tumblestick, boomabird, pinwheel, cross-stick, curved-stick boomerang, and many more. Complete throwing instructions included.
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boomerang making July 16, 2008
This is an excellent introduction to making and throwing boomerangs, but is a little out of date. Unless you want to make a left handed boomerang, this book will show you everything you need. I found the section on tumblesticks especially interesting.
Pretty good reprint... June 25, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this book as a kid so I purchased a copy for my kids.
Everything you need to know to make boomerangs of all types is covered here. The book does show its age some, as do many Dover reprints (you are unlikley to find the wooden sticks used by service stations for checking gas level anymore... use a thick yardstick instead).
 A classic book on boomerangs November 18, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Would you like to make a boomerang? This book will teach you how to do that. And it tells us plenty about all sorts of boomerangs and how to throw them.
You start with a stick. You round the top side to a roughly convex shape while the bottom remains flat. And you bend the ends slightly towards the convex side. If you do it really well, it may already be a boomerang (called a "tumblestick"). You can try it. But it is better to make two of them and attach them to make a "cross-stick" boomerang. These tend to work very well indeed, unless they get caught in a wind. You can even put three of these sticks together, to get a "pinwheel" boomerang. And Mason describes a bunch of variations on all these designs.
Of the variations, the most interesting are the "boomabirds," which look like birds. There is some fascinating material on how to make them.
The book also includes a section on Australian boomerangs. There are two types. One is called the "return" boomerang. When thrown vertically, it makes an arc and returns (unless it hits something). The other is misleadingly called the "non-return" boomerang. When thrown horizontally, it returns. But when thrown vertically, it just keeps going until it lands. Australian boomerangs are weapons, and birds (which generally do not realize that they need to avoid them) are the prime targets.
I enjoyed reading this book, and I recommend it.
 Very baroque, but a fun read for present-day boomerang throwers July 11, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'd like to state that this is definitely not the book you should read if you want to make or throw a contemporary sports boomerang. The instructions Mason offers really scare me: he proposes multi-bladed boomerangs with a diameter of 36 inches with a 5 inch metal screw poking out on the back for easy one handed catching - give me a break! Two-bladed boomerangs only occupy a small bit of the book.
On the other hand, it's a nice historical view on a certain stage in the evolution of sports boomerangs (the book is from 1937 originally), and it contains the only description I know (including the web as known to Google) of one-bladed boomerangs, so-called tumblesticks.
Slightly dated, but good information December 1, 1999
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book concentrates mostly on crosswing boomerangs and those built along the same lines. These are a lot of fun to make and fly but if you really want to get into the real thing (sport booms, not "hunting") there are better, more informative books available.
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