How to Make Traditional Taketombo

Taketombo(bamboo-copter) is Japnese traditional toy. Good Taketombo can fly over 50[m] high, 100[m] distance, Flight time over 13 [sec].

How to Make Traditional Taketombo.

Step 1: How to Make Traditional Taketombo: Cut the Bamboo

Cut the bamboo into a wing shape

Step 2: How to Make Traditional Taketombo: Balance the Wings

Shave and balance the heavier wing

Step 3: How to Make Traditional Taketombo: ​Adjust the Angle of Attack

Heat the wings with a heat gun to adjust the attack angle

Step 4: How to Make Traditional Taketombo: Completed

The figure is a completed traditional Taketombo.

However, the same shape can not be made again.

Step 5:

Adjust the angle of attack

Comments

[seamster]

Great techniques! Thank you for showing how to make this : )

[KeiichiroT]

Dear seamster,

Thank you, I appreciate your comment!
There are many senior craftsmen of traditional Taketombo in Japan.
As I'm a beginner in this way, this up is an introduction to the simplest method.
In the future, I would like to introduce the production methods
for advanced users include of 3d Printing little by little.

Best regards,
Keiichiro Takato

<Please refer to following: Japan Taketombo Competition>
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