Steampunk tennis rackets

Step 13 Play drawing room (or bar-b-que or beach) tennis

So that's it, you're ready to play. You have made an old fashioned looking device in a very modern composite way. your bat / racket should be good for whacking that ball fairly hard. I haven't made up any rules for the game. I thought of making a swing ball pole for the ball from a broom stick (but ran out of time), but then I was having such fun with the kids using the sofa back as a net and trying to volley the ball over it the most times that the swing ball thing didn't feel necessary.

I'm sure that there will be some fabulous variations on this basic design. So if you make them, please do post them here.