My refurbished teardrop clubs!
Here is a picture of the first Indian clubs I ever made. I filled plastic bottles with urea formaldehyde resin solution, and used dowel rods and ping pong balls for handles.
After two years, water in the gelled resin evaporated, and the resin cracked.
It was time to replace the bodies of my teardrop clubs. So I walked around my neighborhood, looking for suitable wood to make my clubs. I found an East African mahogany (Khaya anthotheca) that was being cut down because of insect damage.
It was time to replace the bodies of my teardrop clubs. So I walked around my neighborhood, looking for suitable wood to make my clubs. I found an East African mahogany (Khaya anthotheca) that was being cut down because of insect damage.
The branch I brought home had tunnels excavated by the insects. When I shook the branch, I could see a pile of insect droppings and the insects that made them. It was some kind of termite, possibly Cryptotermes brevis. I thought I could cut away most of the tunneled wood, and be left with reasonably sound billets for the bodies of my clubs.
After removing the bark and cutting two pieces.
After trimming to 65 mm diameter, 190 mm long
I glued the handles with epoxy resin.
After shaping.
The bottom club reminds me of surrealist art! Artwork by Hieronymus Bosch, Wojtek Siudmak and Sebastian Eriksson