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Backyard Ballistics
by:
William Gurstelle
Retail: $16.95
Our Price: $14.95
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Backyard Ballistics is the perfect book for your
son, husband or brother-in-law. All men (and most girls) find this a
fascinating book with really, cool projects. Backyard Ballistics gives
instructions on how to build a variety of projects (potato cannon,
tennis ball mortars, Cincinnati fire kite...) the safety, physics and
history behind that project.
My son and husband made the potato cannon last
Thanksgiving and now it is a hit at our holiday gatherings. In fact,
we carried it to my parent's farm over Thanksgiving so all the kids
could fire off the potatoes. Some of the kids even tried catching the
potatoes as well-wow! My son's next project is to begin selling kits
to make projects in Backyard Ballistics.
Of course this is not your typical "craft book", but it is definitely
a manly type of book. We have lots of dads wander into our booth just
to buy this book. Some day we hope to offer a camp for boys to let
them build some of the projects and teach the project's science &
history.
What others say about Backyard Ballistics:
Backyard Ballistics is great for lazy summer days and for school
projects. I did a Science Fair project on the potato cannon. My dad
and I built the stand while my mom helped me shoot the vegetables. I
launched all sorts of vegetables and fruits. It was lots of fun. ~13
year old
"Pleasing men of all ages!"
"Being an avid potato gunner, I picked this book up at the local
library, and after reading it over, I just had to to get it. The book
will please everyone that is into building fun projects during the
lazy summer days & will provide enjoyment for hours! The book goes
into very good detail with each project & stresses safety as a key
thing, which is good because the projects in this book can be somewhat
dangerous ONLY if you don't follow instructions & use common sense. I
recommended this book to anyone in need for a good project to work on
or just for fun! Definitely on my top 10 list."
If you want to make a potato souffle, pick up a book by Julia Child.
If you want to decorate your holiday cards with hand-cut potato
stamps, look to a Martha Stewart manual. If, however, you'd like to
launch a potato in a blazing fireball of combusting hairspray from a
PVC pipe, your best source is Backyard Ballistics, by William
Gurstelle.” —Time Out New York
Your inner boy will get a bang out of these 13 devices to build and
shoot in your own back yard, some of them noisy enough to legally perk
up a 4th of July.” —The Dallas Morning News
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