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These are some of the first boomerangs ever made by Digital Boomerang Systems. Some are copies of commercial boomerangs and others are wild experiments that have no business flying (but they do fly).
Some of the pictures are scans of photos taken long ago, but recently Michelle found a bundle of these older models and I'm starting to take some high-quality scans of them. Look at the bottom of the list for the first ones scanned in.
Click on the small picture to see a bigger version.
| Name | Picture | Date | Description |
| Early Years 1 |  |
1993 | Thank goodness my wife found these photographs! I
feared I had no record of my early boomerang-producing efforts.
These are photos of my personal collection around the time that I was really obsessed with producing these things. You can see several different 'rang styles and some pretty funky paint jobs. I had totally forgotten about the "Sunset Fading to the Stars" theme that I was into for awhile. I'm sorry for the low quality of the photographs. I wish I had some of these to do some high-quality direct scans like the ones above. Where are these now? Well, I still have a few of them. Some were sold, some I fear are lost. I'm going to have to give my garage a good going-through to find out. |
| Early Years 2 |  |
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| Traditional Copy |  |
1992 | The first boomerang I ever made! This is a direct copy of the
commercial one my mother-in-law bought me that got me into all this
stuff. This is a traditional model and I never really kept many of these
for myself. I prefer the more progressive models you see in the New
Gallery.
(This one and the following one were cut-and-pasted from the collection photos above. That's why they look kind of fuzzy.) |
| Orbitron |  |
1992 | This was the first boomerang I ever made that wasn't a copy of something else. I just drew a pleasing shape on the wood and went from there. It was one of my best fliers until its untimely death at the hands of Chris Meek. I must say it was a spectacular crash, and if ever a boomerang must die, it should be as awesome a spectacle as that |
| Snapped Orbitron |  |
1992-1994
RIP |
I found the pieces and present them here in loving memory. 
If you click for the larger image, you can see that the longer arm has a flaw which was repaired with "Plastic Wood" filler. Apparently, it was stronger than the other side, just like a broken arm supposedly heals stronger than before. I'm sure this will make it into my "Boomerang Zen" treatise when I eventually write it. |
| Southpaw Island |  |
1993 | Definitely zoom in on this thing.
I had this "Sunset Fading to the Stars" theme that I was into for awhile, and I guess this is carrying it to the extreme. In case you can't tell, the bottom is an ocean. Above that is an island with palm trees overlooked by a close-to-setting sun. After that, we have a blue sky fading to outer-space. Oh yes! This is also a left-handed boomerang. Look for a How do they work section soon that will explain the significance of that. Notice the nick on the top of this one. That is because someone didn't know it was a lefty and they tried to throw it normal. Big no-no. It crashed, but luckily didn't burn. |
| Exaggerated Admiral's Hat |  |
3/21/93 | This model shows some of our early experimentation with painting techniques. It has the expected smooth spray-paint color blends, but then it also has some arrows drawn with paint pens, some odd starburst shapes. These shapes were painted by dripping a blob of paint on the rang and then stretching the blob out with a toothpick. The blue stripes on the right arm were made by dipping a toothpick into paint and then using the toothpick like a quill to draw the shapes. |