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I agree, most people can live a long time with A-Fib; it's not a death sentence. I had it three times before; this is my forth. Still, I do notice I get much more tired, quicker, and can tell the difference right away. At 80, I'll not complain too much. I still think that, "Every day is a good day when you don't wake up dead!"
The 2.5 mm 5 ply booms sound interesting, what are the dimensions, airfoils, finishes? For years, I made 10 inch cross sticks by buying 1" x 6" straight grained clear pine, cutting into 10" lengths, rounding the top and bottom cross cut corners and then slicing into 1/16" thick slices to yield 1/16" thick blades 10" long and 3/4" chord. Sanding between a urethene skate wheel and a 4" diameter x 8" long pneumatic drum made the finished thickness about 1 mm (or about 0.04 inches). Painted tips and a hot glue gun, and wood slats clamped and glued in a custom designed clamping jig both assembled AND added dihedral to the finished boomerangs. With my set-up, I could make 150-200 per day! Most of the time, the wood was free cutoffs from other construction jobs.
Kids love these, don't they?
Rusty
My wood came today for making cross stick booms. This is a few sheets
of 2.5mm 5 ply Finland birch. I am using this with my 4th and 5th
graders this year as well as selling some myself. In the past I have
used paint sticks but this will be way better quality.
I cut some into strips for making the booms tonight. The strips are
11 inches long. I have found that I can get 120 boomerangs out of
each sheet of 61 X 61 inch wood. One sheet will just do my students
this year. So cool!!! If you have not tried the 2.5 mm 5 ply for
short range cross sticks I can highly recommend it.
Steven Graham
Bartlesville OK
Rusty,
Glad you are doing better. I too have A-fib, but mine is (for now)
easily controlled with medication. It does not slow me down (still
riding my bike to work everyday).
Best wishes to you.
Steven
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