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When a chap has been set a challenge, what's to do but step up and meet it?
So, here I am proud to present the world's first Moustache-a-rang.
It flies just like any other boomerang, but not so efficiently, since there is a relatively large amount of weight close to the centre of rotation.
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The boomerang is cut from cheap 6mm plywood, using a scrollsaw.
I drew up a template in Inkscape, drawing on a randomly-googled moustache image as a rough inspiration, but adding extra "droop" to get it closer to a traditional boomerang shape.
You'll notice that the template has holes in it, where the ends of the moustache curl over. Do not cut these holes out of the plywood, though, or there will not be enough weight near the ends of the arms for the full, vital gyroscopic effect to occur.
Safety.
Specific risks and hazards will vary from machine to machine, but there are some general guidelines:
- Fingers. Hold the wood behind the blade as much as you can (although some modern blades have teeth on all sides!), and if you can't avoid getting close to the blade, use a piece of scrap timber as a pusher.
- Eyes. I would say "use the guard", but I found the view through the guard to be far too distorted.Wear safety goggles instead.
- Dust. It turns out that scroll saw dust is finer than hand saw dust, and spends a lot of time air-borne. Wear a mask.
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Just a little bit of trivia for you, did you know that even though a lot of people claim that the Australian Aboriginal's were supposedly the inventors of the returning boomerang that there is no definitive proof of it. The earliest Aust. aboriginal boomerangs (hunting ones, obviously out of necessity) did not return. As the old Aussie joke goes "What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? " Answer "A stick!". Which is basically what the original Aust. Aboriginal boomerang was, a heavily weighted throwing stick or club which did not return.
Egyptian Aboriginal "boomerang's" (a generic term for a returning throwing stick, based on Aust. Aboriginal linguistics) have an archaeology that as far as I know pre dates the Aust. Aboriginal returning throwing stick. Which explains why the Egyptians didn't call it a boomerang.
Which leads to the definition of Aboriginal by the Encyclopedia Brittanica ( generally considered to be the definition of the english language and yes the word aboriginal is from the English just as the word infidel is from the latin ) is somebody born in a country is an aboriginal of that country ( paraphrased ). Not to be confused with the words indigenous or native which have different meanings.
Sorry to get off track still love this and am going to add one to my "rang" collection. By the by the last time I checked the world champion boomerang thrower was/is an American.
From idea to posting was less than 20 hours.