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Step 13S - Kiteman
Kiteman
S for Serendipity!
This whole scheme surfaced just as I was writing my boomerang Instructable, where I made the bold claim that any letter could become a boomerang.
The choice, then, was natural.
I hand-drew the template with pencil and compasses, drawing around a small beaker for the terminal circles.
The whole thing was jigsawed out of the same 1/4" plywood I used for Robot Returns and Dark Kite, and I decided that the outsides of the curves of the S would be the leading edges, so that the S was the correct way round when thrown from the right hand.
Carving and shaping were all performed with my rotary tool, and I sanded and varnished it as for my Dark Kite boomerang.
The only real challenge was display - I needed the S to stand up, which required a stand or frame, but I also needed it to fit into a flat envelope for postage.
The answer was to send the team a kit -they'd have to make part of their own gift!
Timber and bamboo lent themselves to a basic frame, from which the boomerang can hang.
I cut and fitted the parts (the short leg goes to the back, folks), then bound them with masking tape for posting. They could do with a drop of woodglue to hold them in place, but I'm sure the Team can cope with that.
Unfortunately, As I walked away from the Post Office, I realised that I had not made my mark - I had not signed the boomerang, nor had I included any identifier other than my return address on the envelope... oops.
Finally, after writing this step, I went back through the other steps and corrected a few minor spelling and grammatical errors, although I bit my metaphorical tongue and left the American "spellings" as they were.
So, there it is - last letter of the set.
Enjoy it, Team, you deserve it.
S for Serendipity!
This whole scheme surfaced just as I was writing my boomerang Instructable, where I made the bold claim that any letter could become a boomerang.
The choice, then, was natural.
I hand-drew the template with pencil and compasses, drawing around a small beaker for the terminal circles.
The whole thing was jigsawed out of the same 1/4" plywood I used for Robot Returns and Dark Kite, and I decided that the outsides of the curves of the S would be the leading edges, so that the S was the correct way round when thrown from the right hand.
Carving and shaping were all performed with my rotary tool, and I sanded and varnished it as for my Dark Kite boomerang.
The only real challenge was display - I needed the S to stand up, which required a stand or frame, but I also needed it to fit into a flat envelope for postage.
The answer was to send the team a kit -they'd have to make part of their own gift!
Timber and bamboo lent themselves to a basic frame, from which the boomerang can hang.
I cut and fitted the parts (the short leg goes to the back, folks), then bound them with masking tape for posting. They could do with a drop of woodglue to hold them in place, but I'm sure the Team can cope with that.
Unfortunately, As I walked away from the Post Office, I realised that I had not made my mark - I had not signed the boomerang, nor had I included any identifier other than my return address on the envelope... oops.
Finally, after writing this step, I went back through the other steps and corrected a few minor spelling and grammatical errors, although I bit my metaphorical tongue and left the American "spellings" as they were.
So, there it is - last letter of the set.
Enjoy it, Team, you deserve it.
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