This was a quick video thrown together as I've had something else to deal with this week and not much time to make a Scrapwood Challenge video. I made one first out of plywood just to see how it would go and that one flew better. This boomerang came out nice though (I had my doubts when I glued it up) and I'm sure with some fine tuning (I ran out of time) it will work just as well! Using quarter inch plywood would be a much easier way to make one but I had to make one using the scrapwood and this seemed to be the best way of doing so! :)
Hey pask great work love your videos. I was wondering think you could make a archery recurve bow with scraps? I only got the idea from seeing you make the ply for this just wondering if it would be possible?
@@billroache6244 A bow would be an awesome project, but with the lengths of wood available, in the scrapwood pile, no matter how you stagger the strips with the forces placed on a full size bow I think it would have a very, very short life expectancy. It might just be possible to make the 3 sections of a take down recurve bow out of the longest pieces but it would be a very short bow
1/4 is much too thick. I have noticed mine fly fine but when they get sealer or paint the extra weight is far too much. I would plane to 5/16 before finish
I could never make a boomerang work when I was a kid. Was reading one of my father's Popular Mechanics and they had an article on how to make a boomerang. Found out that all store bought 'rangs (at least at that time) were right-handed and I'm left. I was about 10 or 11 at the time. Found some plywood and made a lefty. It was great. Thanks for reminding me of the fun I had and thanks for popsting.
40 years ago my older brother went to Hawaii for some High School music thing, and he brought back my younger brother and I these small "triangle"-shaped boomerangs made out of seemingly hand carved Monkey Wood or something. (several inches in length, well less than a foot -- not the weird-shaped UFO style like in this video) They must have been made by a master boomerang maker, because they were the best boomerangs I have ever seen or used. I've tried to find one like it for decades and have never been able to replace it. Not even close. We eventually lost them. One on top of a mobile home in a park we used to throw them way out over and one in a fig tree where we couldn't find it. You could throw them half a football field away and they would circle back and you could catch them. They were really excellent boomerangs. (now I wish we would have climbed up on the mobile home for the one and looked harder for the one in the tree)
I love the scrapwood challenge series, I've watched all of them! I like how creative you are with it and how all the projects are very different from each other. Great work!
I would love to see you do a scrap would skateboard! It's normally made of maple veneers but you could do it with camphaloral! Just make a press and then glue the veneers and see what happens!
Pask Makes I'm sorry you're dealing though stuff, i hope it works out for you! You're one of my favorite builders and creators on TH-cam! Keep building and if you do make a skateboard ever I'd buy it! Just as art for my wall!
Watching this in early April, 2020. I began following your youtube channel a few months ago. I imagine the smells of wood as you cut and shape those pieces. Your furniture pieces are very lovely; they let the beauty of the wood shine through. Regarding the boomerang, even if it doesn't come all the way back to you, it's still better than jogging 50 meters to fetch it back! Greetings from Florida! Hope you and your loved ones are holding up well. Stay safe!
Man, I wish I had dollar for all the times my brothers and I spent throwing sticks at trees getting various balls, frisbee's etc out of trees...but never a boomerang :) Loved to build.
Me and my buddy been billing boomerangs for about 5 years now and we just want to congratulate you on being honest about your video your trial and error laugh out loud
I made several boomerangs from a book but the one that worked best was my own design. It was a plywood ring with 3 short blades sticking out with power sanded airfoil cross sections, a little brute force 'trihedral' bend upwards on each and a little bit of upward angle of attack built in during sanding. It was very reliable with about half the range of the one in the video. It was easy to catch by reaching up through the middle as it finished its circuit by hovering down to me. The major flaw was the 3 blades had different ply directions and the upward bends wouldn't hold for long. They kept flattening back to the plane of the ring and it tried, but didn't have the momentum to complete the larger diameter path it took. Now I should duplicate it with identical blades glued in with the proper up angle built in at the bases of the blades.
That was great (seeing it raining somewhere else I mean...) It's a few years since but I've made a few 'rangs - never saw one made up from plys like that. I loved it! I think your leading edges are a wee bit 'blunt' - as you say, a bit of fine tuning. Also 'rangs are like people - they have funny moods and respond to perseverance. Thanks for that mate, really enjoyed it.
Great work with the material. Some tips from a shaper: never let the tail edge sharp. Always leave a little "wall". That will improve. Theres also a ratio you can manage with size and thickness. Thst type of plywood i would recommend 3 or 4 winged designs. Will fly closer but better. And also you need to tune the wings. Puta the rang in a flat table and check the angles and if wings are upwards. Use vapor from a teakettle to bend it if necessary. If you didnt do it, also check the natural bend of the strips before glueing. Mark the top on them. That will make your boomerang always with positive dihedral. Cheers
Traditional boomerangs made by aboriginals have the underside on one end sanded away so the boomerang has lift on one end so it comes back to you when thrown vertically.
Must be something in the water there, when I was a kid I had a boomerang, I couldn't get it to do anything noteworthy in the air. First throw and you've got it coming back.
Mate that was really interesting, any chance you could share your template? Even just a quick photo and rough dimensions. Being a kiwi living in Ireland I haven't made one before but the kids would love it!
Still incredibly impressive! I can't throw at all (for some reason my hands don't like to let go when I want them to) so I do know that if I had a go it'd undoubtedly end up smacking me in the mouth. Probably on the way out before it even thought about coming back, lol :D Great job Neil, I look forward to seeing how you get on on Instagram :)
I used to be very into making/throwing boomerangs but I got tired of answering questions from people who always thought the returning boomerang was an urban legend, every time I went out
To tighten up your turns, you can undercut (camber) your leading edge a bit. Think of it as having a 'rounder' edge than a wedge. Just a touch, not like a full airfoil, no more than one ply along the leading edge, one third of the way from the tip to the elbow. Also you can try adding some dihedral to the arms by giving a slight upward bend to each arm. You can set the bend by heating each arm at the thirds. Check your bend by pressing on the elbow and then looking at the tip. No more than millimeter or two should raise off of the table. Otherwise, great job. Check out some of the boomerangs made by Oscar Cuartas. He made his own out of tropical hardwood plys and they are beautiful. I'm not seeing many examples of his work, but Felipe Arboleda does some similar work and there are good examples on the interwebs. A couple of your throws looked like you were laying it over a bit too much. Try to keep it a bit more vertical. With a bit of dihedral and a more vertical throw, you should be able to avoid that last part where it turns away from you.
Made dozens of those as a kid. It's way easier to make them work with 3 or more blades than with 2. 4 blades ones were working the best. They usualy have a smaller path radius in the air, wich can be helpful when you have some trees around. If it can be helpful to somebody. Thought all australians knew how to throw a boomerang from birth ;) Cheers from France.
What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back? A stick. But then the dogs would have be chasing it so it must be a boomerang. You’ll get it. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Whats this ,"Can it Be " the new Superhero from down under the Scrap wood pile ,able to circle big trees in a single toss ,if you had it come back to you Neil this could have been a much bigger intro,but i think iknow the problem you made it in metric didnt you ...lol great video Pask ,so when you gonna laminate a bow and arrows
Haha! Hopefully with a little tuning I should get it to come back! If I'd made it using imperial it would have gone straight for sure, we all know metric is best! ;) I like the bow and arrow idea! :)
Path in AZ Making a returning boomerang is a lot harder than making a non-returning one, which is why a lot of traditional boomerangs are non-returning.
This was a quick video thrown together as I've had something else to deal with this week and not much time to make a Scrapwood Challenge video. I made one first out of plywood just to see how it would go and that one flew better. This boomerang came out nice though (I had my doubts when I glued it up) and I'm sure with some fine tuning (I ran out of time) it will work just as well!
Using quarter inch plywood would be a much easier way to make one but I had to make one using the scrapwood and this seemed to be the best way of doing so! :)
I would like to see a comparison between the scrapwood boomerang and the plywood boomerang. Both how they look and how they fly.
Pask Makes th-cam.com/video/zwFB4NTwV0k/w-d-xo.html this is a link to a "how to make the wooden mold"
Hey pask great work love your videos.
I was wondering think you could make a archery recurve bow with scraps?
I only got the idea from seeing you make the ply for this just wondering if it would be possible?
@@billroache6244 A bow would be an awesome project, but with the lengths of wood available, in the scrapwood pile, no matter how you stagger the strips with the forces placed on a full size bow I think it would have a very, very short life expectancy. It might just be possible to make the 3 sections of a take down recurve bow out of the longest pieces but it would be a very short bow
1/4 is much too thick. I have noticed mine fly fine but when they get sealer or paint the extra weight is far too much. I would plane to 5/16 before finish
I could never make a boomerang work when I was a kid. Was reading one of my father's Popular Mechanics and they had an article on how to make a boomerang. Found out that all store bought 'rangs (at least at that time) were right-handed and I'm left. I was about 10 or 11 at the time. Found some plywood and made a lefty. It was great. Thanks for reminding me of the fun I had and thanks for popsting.
@Hugh Jaanus, you're welcome?
I forgot how to throw my boomerang, but it came back to me pretty quick.
wow.
You made me laugh!
That was a good one mate
Good thing you already have one - faulty boomerangs are non-returnable.
40 years ago my older brother went to Hawaii for some High School music thing, and he brought back my younger brother and I these small "triangle"-shaped boomerangs made out of seemingly hand carved Monkey Wood or something. (several inches in length, well less than a foot -- not the weird-shaped UFO style like in this video) They must have been made by a master boomerang maker, because they were the best boomerangs I have ever seen or used. I've tried to find one like it for decades and have never been able to replace it. Not even close. We eventually lost them. One on top of a mobile home in a park we used to throw them way out over and one in a fig tree where we couldn't find it. You could throw them half a football field away and they would circle back and you could catch them. They were really excellent boomerangs. (now I wish we would have climbed up on the mobile home for the one and looked harder for the one in the tree)
Watching a Pask scrap wood video is like running into a smell that brings you back to a fond moment in your past.
Haha! :)
I happened across a pile of scrap wood at a construction site the other day, and guess what song started playing in my head.
Haha! :)
How beautiful those trees are. The nature in Australia is magnificent. You live in a wonderful environment, Neil.
Thanks mate! It's not a bad place to live! :)
I used to make these differently a long time ago. I stopped doing these and forgot how to. And now it’s coming back to me
I love the scrapwood challenge series, I've watched all of them! I like how creative you are with it and how all the projects are very different from each other. Great work!
Good job; effective bench and tools, with sharp ideas.
Thanks for sharing
You and the Lil'dog had some fun ! LOL good project
I love how the dogs quickly clued in that this stick wasn't worth chasing
I would love to see you do a scrap would skateboard! It's normally made of maple veneers but you could do it with camphaloral! Just make a press and then glue the veneers and see what happens!
That's a great idea, I'll certainly think about it! :)
Pask Makes I'm sorry you're dealing though stuff, i hope it works out for you! You're one of my favorite builders and creators on TH-cam! Keep building and if you do make a skateboard ever I'd buy it! Just as art for my wall!
Pask Makes th-cam.com/video/zwFB4NTwV0k/w-d-xo.html this is a video of how to make a skateboard mold.
🎼Boomerang challenge,
🎶Boomerang challenge.
🎵 My boomer’s whacked,
🎵 It won’t come back;
🎶 I’ll make another one out of scrap.
Haha! That's great Gary, you nailed it! :)
Nó
@@PaskMakes can you telll me the template you used, i wanna try making it.
The tools used are very sophisticated and modern .. very far from what I have .. very cool brother. Greetings boomerang lovers from Indonesia
Watching this in early April, 2020. I began following your youtube channel a few months ago. I imagine the smells of wood as you cut and shape those pieces. Your furniture pieces are very lovely; they let the beauty of the wood shine through. Regarding the boomerang, even if it doesn't come all the way back to you, it's still better than jogging 50 meters to fetch it back! Greetings from Florida! Hope you and your loved ones are holding up well. Stay safe!
The moment you don't have your headphones on when you start the video and have to rewind so you get to listen to the scrapwood music intro xD
Haha! :)
It's starting to grow onto me
Sick guy....
That throwing stick has boomeranged on us!
Man, I wish I had dollar for all the times my brothers and I spent throwing sticks at trees getting various balls, frisbee's etc out of trees...but never a boomerang :) Loved to build.
Me and my buddy been billing boomerangs for about 5 years now and we just want to congratulate you on being honest about your video your trial and error laugh out loud
Very nice project. I wold very much like to see more to fine tuning it and see it fly. All the best to you from Denmark
I made several boomerangs from a book but the one that worked best was my own design. It was a plywood ring with 3 short blades sticking out with power sanded airfoil cross sections, a little brute force 'trihedral' bend upwards on each and a little bit of upward angle of attack built in during sanding. It was very reliable with about half the range of the one in the video. It was easy to catch by reaching up through the middle as it finished its circuit by hovering down to me.
The major flaw was the 3 blades had different ply directions and the upward bends wouldn't hold for long. They kept flattening back to the plane of the ring and it tried, but didn't have the momentum to complete the larger diameter path it took.
Now I should duplicate it with identical blades glued in with the proper up angle built in at the bases of the blades.
the dogs go wtf he's ruining our game. that stick isn't supposed to come back by itself??? we need to chew it to sawdust!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha! It fooled them for sure! :)
Very cool my friend.
That was great (seeing it raining somewhere else I mean...) It's a few years since but I've made a few 'rangs - never saw one made up from plys like that. I loved it! I think your leading edges are a wee bit 'blunt' - as you say, a bit of fine tuning. Also 'rangs are like people - they have funny moods and respond to perseverance. Thanks for that mate, really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it Mark! I'll do some tuning on it and see how it goes! :)
Great work with the material.
Some tips from a shaper: never let the tail edge sharp. Always leave a little "wall". That will improve.
Theres also a ratio you can manage with size and thickness.
Thst type of plywood i would recommend 3 or 4 winged designs. Will fly closer but better.
And also you need to tune the wings. Puta the rang in a flat table and check the angles and if wings are upwards.
Use vapor from a teakettle to bend it if necessary.
If you didnt do it, also check the natural bend of the strips before glueing. Mark the top on them.
That will make your boomerang always with positive dihedral.
Cheers
I meant trail edge.
Sorry english not my first language
I laughed when it was stuck in tree. Awesome video.
This looks a lot of fun! Great episode. I have one of those mounted on my wall and I think I'll give it a go too.
Glad you enjoyed it Alex! :)
You Australians are the coolest people in the world!
Love your channel and miss your country, it's been too long since I've been there...
Thanks very much mate! Your welcome back anytime! :)
Excellent :) Because of you I want to make some new boomerang now ! Thanks
That's great to hear Francois! :)
Another scrapwood wonderful project! Superb use of this wood... :)
Throwing stuff at a tree to get your toy back is the most whimsical activity that one never appreciated as a child.
Forget the boomerang the audio is this video is fantastically done, I wish more channels did their sound that well
Boomerangs should fly perfectly in 0 wind. You need to add a "lift cut" on the underside of the left arm (lifting arm) out at the tip.
Thanks, I'll look into it! :)
Yep
Nice nice nice. Goooood job. All the series scrapwood challeng is very very goooood.
Thanks - glad you like it! :)
How about making a tombola drum?
You never cease to amaze me my friend.
Such an awesome project. Adding that to my list.
I dont know much about the species of scrap you got, but a new mallet that you could use without being afraid to hurt would be cool.
It wouldn't be the best choice for a mallet but I have thought about it! :)
After watching other Pask videos I finally purchased a Shinto rasp. Used it right away. It’s a great shaping tool.
Traditional boomerangs made by aboriginals have the underside on one end sanded away so the boomerang has lift on one end so it comes back to you when thrown vertically.
Awesome! I need to retry making a boomarang. The first one I made only boomed. It did arang.
The madman is creating his own plywood
Love it mate. Hope you get it to come back soon
Must be something in the water there, when I was a kid I had a boomerang, I couldn't get it to do anything noteworthy in the air. First throw and you've got it coming back.
I actually made a quick one out of plywood first, just to see how it would go and that went really well! :)
Mate that was really interesting, any chance you could share your template? Even just a quick photo and rough dimensions. Being a kiwi living in Ireland I haven't made one before but the kids would love it!
Nice work! I love your Scrapwood Challenge vids. :-)
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The poor dogs are like “yea I’m not falling for this anymore”
Dare I say "My boomerang won't come back"? Neat project. Cheers, David
I wonder what those dogs think about your crooked stick that fetches itself.
I love how the dogs are like "wtf?!?" as it starts to curve. :D
Wow nice nice nice... Looks like fun well it is!
Thanks Vishwan! It was fun but I have a sore shoulder this morning! :)
@@PaskMakes Needed to warm up
That was pretty cool, man👍
DODGE! 🖐
You know that if it doesn’t come back ....it’s a stick.
😂
Hello Neil
Very good job 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻 cool project. Great. Greetings Martin
Still incredibly impressive! I can't throw at all (for some reason my hands don't like to let go when I want them to) so I do know that if I had a go it'd undoubtedly end up smacking me in the mouth. Probably on the way out before it even thought about coming back, lol :D Great job Neil, I look forward to seeing how you get on on Instagram :)
Thanks Matt! :)
I'm a fan of the omega hybrid style; they tend to have a lower more balanced flight compared to a classic v-shape. Cool video.
I liked this just by hearing the intro voices hahaha love it
Maybe a scrapwood umbrella will be on the cards for next week?
Your skill and talent is amazing. I absolutely love your tool handle making jig video..this one is really fun too 🙂
Subscribed after watching you putting so much effort for us . May Allah (God) do all good to you.
This was a fun looking build!
Dude! you invented plywood !! 😅😉👍👍👍
Baptiste C. flywood*
cool video and make! just like all your projects!
Put some undercut on the tips and make your trailing edge bevels wider, use deeper undercut on the leading edge to create more lift and 'turn'.
I used to be very into making/throwing boomerangs but I got tired of answering questions from people who always thought the returning boomerang was an urban legend, every time I went out
Mate that looked like it went pretty damn well! I'd be impressed if I'd done that myself :)
Give a bit of info on the "thickness sander" attachment, please. I like the idea.
I showed it better in my 'Veneer Light Shade' video earlier in the series! :)
Please!!
Yes please more info
Like what you do with the scrapwood challenge but as a suggestion, how about making a tombola drum?
Wet wood challenge wet wood challenge!🎼
poor dog 5:21
I like the jig on your belt sander to make a planer
You need to sand or warp the backside of the trailing wing to get a little more lift and it'll come right back without wind
A cracking project that even i could do :-)
Glad you liked it! :)
To tighten up your turns, you can undercut (camber) your leading edge a bit. Think of it as having a 'rounder' edge than a wedge. Just a touch, not like a full airfoil, no more than one ply along the leading edge, one third of the way from the tip to the elbow.
Also you can try adding some dihedral to the arms by giving a slight upward bend to each arm. You can set the bend by heating each arm at the thirds. Check your bend by pressing on the elbow and then looking at the tip. No more than millimeter or two should raise off of the table.
Otherwise, great job. Check out some of the boomerangs made by Oscar Cuartas. He made his own out of tropical hardwood plys and they are beautiful. I'm not seeing many examples of his work, but Felipe Arboleda does some similar work and there are good examples on the interwebs.
A couple of your throws looked like you were laying it over a bit too much. Try to keep it a bit more vertical. With a bit of dihedral and a more vertical throw, you should be able to avoid that last part where it turns away from you.
Thanks very much for the advice Mark! I'll take a look at it and hopefully your tips help! It was fun project! :)
Hi Pask, I love yours vídeos.
Thanks Valdir! :)
I always wondered why a boomerang looks bigger the closer it gets to you, then it hit me. Lol
oh lord Pask, i really like that boomerang, i want to make one :D, also it was funny how the dogs get confused, great video, as always😌💪
for entertainment in free time, sir! Thanks for share.
Great video! Thank you for teaching me!
Beautifully done
Fun...sorry you couldn't get it to come back to you. I know you will though...you don't just leave stuff alone. ha
Fun project! Was hoping for a catch at the end there! Awesome stuff Neil
I love Boomerang! Nice vídeo!
Hanging on 🌲, top scene 😄😄😄
good job - and great dogs to help;)
Made dozens of those as a kid. It's way easier to make them work with 3 or more blades than with 2.
4 blades ones were working the best. They usualy have a smaller path radius in the air, wich can be helpful when you have some trees around. If it can be helpful to somebody.
Thought all australians knew how to throw a boomerang from birth ;)
Cheers from France.
Nice job, that plywood was pretty labor intensive though.
This is what I imagine life to be like, living in Australia.
Boomerangs.....Australian black magic!
What do you call a boomerang that won’t come back?
A stick. But then the dogs would have be chasing it so it must be a boomerang.
You’ll get it. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wayne Crews
Most traditional boomerangs are actually non-returning.
Fun video. Love the scene with the rain in the background. Thank you for sharing! : )
Great video mate!
If you have a boomerang manufacturing business and get some returned product once in a while isn’t it still kind of a win?
I’ll come back to this video.
"....Nice one there Senor Neil....!"
Whats this ,"Can it Be " the new Superhero from down under the Scrap wood pile ,able to circle big trees in a single toss ,if you had it come back to you Neil this could have been a much bigger intro,but i think iknow the problem you made it in metric didnt you ...lol great video Pask ,so when you gonna laminate a bow and arrows
Haha! Hopefully with a little tuning I should get it to come back! If I'd made it using imperial it would have gone straight for sure, we all know metric is best! ;) I like the bow and arrow idea! :)
The Jungle is beautiful
Thanks for posting. It is simpler to make one out of a pair of paint stir sticks held crossed in the middle with an elastic band ; )
Nice. I made a boomerang once. The only way it would come back, is when I threw it straight up in the air.. :)
Path in AZ
Making a returning boomerang is a lot harder than making a non-returning one, which is why a lot of traditional boomerangs are non-returning.
Nillie Yup, if you make a boomerang that doesn't come back...............congrats, you made a stick. :)
Path in AZ
It’s still a boomerang. As I said, boomerangs come in several different shapes, not all of which are of the returning kind.
Nice work
I would really like to ear about the making of the intro song !! Like a little making of 👌
This one is really good, I never did have success with a boomerang.