Gift Ideas

Private clubs and organizations have ordered boomerangs for fundraising through raffles and such. My boomerangs have been used in television commercials and for Warner Brothers productions. Some of these boomerangs are displayed in entrances to museums and some boomerangs can be displayed in the finest of art galleries. With the age of the boomerang dating to 3000 years B.C. the history supporting this unique object is immeasurable and adds a rare value for any gallery wishing to enhance the longevity of that gallery or professional business.

Gifts can range from....... beautiful cased sets made for Prince Charles as featured in the photo (a) to a more subtle professional long distance throwers boomerang and case (b) to a large novelty 60" boomerang that actually flies and returns. Other gift ideas as displayed is this very odd shaped boomerang with inlaid mother of pearl and various exotic woods affixed into a hardwood frame or this 18mm thick special boomerang mounted on a maple pedestal. Notice the three exotic wood inlays.

 

The 1997 Worlds Craftsmanship Entry

Refer to Photo C (Above)

"The Raptor" features a number of different woods used in its construction.  Tips are weighted in bronze surrounded by an erotic wood cluster.  Laminations are strips of walnut, chestnut and ash.  Wings are horizontally lapped with burled walnut and lace wood.  The elbow is capped with European burled walnut.  The diamond pattern on each wing is inlaid Texas longhorn cattle bone.

Photo A Case set for Prince Charles

2007

This unique presentation plaque was prepared for the Oliver Corportation, located in Cottrellville, Michigan.

It features a custom, hand made boomerang with inlays, and an Oliver Corporation Wood File mounted on an all natural wooden plank sawn from a cross section of a tree trunk.

The author continues to produce a wide variety of unique gift and presentation pieces for clients spanning the globe.

The boomerang of life reunites Hawking and Laflamme at IQC

At first glance, a wooden boomerang might seem like a peculiar gift to give the world’s most famous scientist.

But Stephen Hawking immediately understood the significance of the gift he received this week from his former doctoral student, IQC Director Raymond Laflamme.

A couple of decades have passed since Laflamme proved to Hawking — his PhD supervisor at the University of Cambridge — that time behaves more like an arrow than a boomerang in a contracting universe.

But Hawking’s visit to IQC this week demonstrated that the “arrow of time” can sometimes bring longtime friends and colleagues full-circle.

In the 1980s, when Hawking was writing his best-seller “A Brief History of Time,” Laflamme’s job was to mathematically demonstrate his mentor’s theory about what happens to time in a contracting universe.

Trouble was, the math just didn’t add up. Laflamme instead proved that Hawking’s theory — that time reverses direction — could not be true.

Hawking conceded his student's calculations were sound, and personalized Laflamme’s copy of “A Brief History of Time” with the inscription: “To Raymond, who showed me that the arrow of time is not a boomerang. Thank you for all your help. Stephen.”

Laflamme gave his former mentor the grand tour of IQC’s labs, introducing him to the faculty, students, and staff of the institute. “These are the people that allow great science to happen,” Laflamme said.

During a small reception, Laflamme presented Hawking with the boomerang, which is engraved with an optimistic message for the future: “Come back soon!”

from the Institute For Quantum Computing