make your own juggling clubs
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Oak dowel rods, four two-liter bottles, four 16oz bottles, two tennis balls, four rubber furniture feet, four screws, four washers, a dozen staples, yellow is electrical tape and gray is duct tape. Bing, bang, boom, you've got clubs.
Took about an hour and 20$ to make, but the next batch should be 5 to 10 dollars cheaper, as I'll be redesigning a bit to take better advantage of recycled materials. So far they've worked very well for me and seem to be holding up. I have to believe that while ugly, these things could compare with the higher end clubs since they use the same three piece design as clubs that cost three times as much or more. They're a bit light at around 170g per club, but next time around I plan on upgrading from 5/8" dowels to 3/4" and possibly going up from 18" long to 20". That should add the 50g needed to bring them up to the same weight as the pro clubs.
The plastic wrapped handle is the most significant difference between this design and other homemade clubs I've seen on the web. It's probably also the most important step to get right when building. Balance may be a bit off, but since I've only juggled with "real" clubs once I couldn't say for sure.
Check out http://kingstonjugglers.org/gcp/ for the original instruction page or http://www.scribd.com/doc/3876105/The-Green-Club-Project if you just want the document.
Oak dowel rods, four two-liter bottles, four 16oz bottles, two tennis balls, four rubber furniture feet, four screws, four washers, a dozen staples, yellow is electrical tape and gray is duct tape. Bing, bang, boom, you've got clubs.
Took about an hour and 20$ to make, but the next batch should be 5 to 10 dollars cheaper, as I'll be redesigning a bit to take better advantage of recycled materials. So far they've worked very well for me and seem to be holding up. I have to believe that while ugly, these things could compare with the higher end clubs since they use the same three piece design as clubs that cost three times as much or more. They're a bit light at around 170g per club, but next time around I plan on upgrading from 5/8" dowels to 3/4" and possibly going up from 18" long to 20". That should add the 50g needed to bring them up to the same weight as the pro clubs.
The plastic wrapped handle is the most significant difference between this design and other homemade clubs I've seen on the web. It's probably also the most important step to get right when building. Balance may be a bit off, but since I've only juggled with "real" clubs once I couldn't say for sure.
Check out http://kingstonjugglers.org/gcp/ for the original instruction page or http://www.scribd.com/doc/3876105/The-Green-Club-Project if you just want the document.
