firewood boomerang

Step 4 Bring in the reinforcements

GLUEING

glue your joints together and clamp them tightly .once the glue is dry scrap or sand any excess glue from the joint .then place the pattern on the blank and trace around it .now its time to scroll .after cutting out the boomerang i found a small crack in one of the ends .to reinforce the ends i decided to cut a groove and place another piece of wood in it with the grain running perpendicular for strength

GROOVING

the boomerang was only about a forth of an inch in width i had to stabilize it by clamping a guide to it to rest on the top of the rip fence .set the saw height and then run it over the saw to make the groove .the tongue which will go into the groove (insert dirty joke here) will need to be the saw width as the saw blade .glue them and clamp .then you will need to cut the excess of the tongue off with a coping saw .follow the shape of the boomerang closely .a little sanding after will be easier then trying to fix it if you cut into the boomerang

DRILLING

unfortunately i didn't hit any oil or natural gas ,but i did make the holes i needed to put some pegs into the lap joint to further reinforce the joint .since it will endure the most stress if it crashes into the ground

i made three 1/4" holes and one 1/2" hole do to a flubup on my part .but i think it turned out adding more visually appealing cut little pegs from your dowel rods and glue and place them in the holes .after they dry cut them off and sand down smooth

Comments

[Mungerbees]

is cutting a groove for the tongue necessary? or did you do that just because it had a crack in it that needed reinforcement?