Best material for wooden nunchaku

[ImThexxx1]

Only as heavy as you're used to. Start with light and you'll be light, start with heavy and you'll be heavy.

i tend to start with very light chux when i first get them, (DIY's) and then weigh them down asi get used to the feel of them.
weighed all my PVC's down now. at different times as i got used to them.
so with wooden chux, id start lighter and get used to them. and get heavier as you go.

[Vypor]

Yeah man, starting out with heavys has its disadvantages.

Using something light when your learning to chuck has many benefits, the main one being that you dont mess up and hit yourself near as hard.

Lighter chucks are good for learning tricks and just getting use to the way your chucks swing all together, then you'll notice picking up a heavy pair really doesnt alter your ability as much - unless you do alot of aerials. Heavier chucks take some getting use to when your dealing with aerials.

[ImThexxx1]

yeah,
my heavy pair i have to swing for about a minute before i can even try areals
especially after i get re-used to swinging my PVC's.

[Berserkergang]

Lately I've been staying on the heavy side with my chucks. I don't like the idea of altering my muscle memory to lightweight movements... I'm getting back into lifting weights, so if I'm gonna chuck, I want to make it hard so when I lift it's that much easier, and vise versa.

I don't care if I can't do all the tricks, I'm happy doing just a few of them really well with heavy chucks... I need double beefy vera chucks. 

[ImThexxx1]

Lately I've been staying on the heavy side with my chucks. I don't like the idea of altering my muscle memory to lightweight movements... I'm getting back into lifting weights, so if I'm gonna chuck, I want to make it hard so when I lift it's that much easier, and vise versa.

I don't care if I can't do all the tricks, I'm happy doing just a few of them really well with heavy chucks... I need double beefy vera chucks. 

i lift also. you get better muscle memory that way. like i will lift some huuuuge weights. 70-80 reps on each arm in a row, and then go on my light chux until my muscles loosen up again. then i will do 50-60 reps each arm with some lighter weights. and go on my heavy acrylics until it starts to hurt. then the next day i do lights only. after that i repeat the first step. and i gain more that way. so I'm not JUST lifting one day, or JUST chucking one day. i get a good mix of both and gain alot from it on both ends.

[fruche]

Wow, awesome advice! Thanks to everyone for your opinions. I'm a cabinet maker so I have a fair bit of experience in woodworking. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer some of that into making really cool nunchaku! That being said, I think I will wait and make some perfect broom handle ones before I try some stained and lacquered ones.
Thanks again peeps. 

[ImThexxx1]

no problem man!
good luck on your first pair!
my first are still my favorite 

[jmvicuna]

I'm a cabinet maker so I have a fair bit of experience in woodworking. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer some of that into making really cool nunchaku!

   so we will see a great work! You MUST post pics when you are done 

[TuKongChucks]

Yea definately post em up.  I absolutely love spinning DIY chucks.  First off it helps your creative thought process, you get any specs you want, its reallllly cheap(depending on the wood and if you have to buy tools etc.).  You can paint/tape/grip/lacquer whatever and dont have to worry bout ruining something real expensive if you dont like or ruin it.

[Matt-Chez]

anything not too brittle, knock two bits of wood together, the lower the pitch of the ring that the wood makes,, the better for chucks i'd say, less likely to fracture,

also if you can find a type of wood with a good natural oil, the moisture in the wood works its way out while you use them so the oilier the wood the longer they will live.

[jmvicuna]

anything not too brittle, knock two bits of wood together, the lower the pitch of the ring that the wood makes,, the better for chucks i'd say, less likely to fracture,

also if you can find a type of wood with a good natural oil, the moisture in the wood works its way out while you use them so the oilier the wood the longer they will live.

[off-topic]2222 posts Matt  [/off-topic]

[Heru Pyrkagia]

Only as heavy as you're used to. Start with light and you'll be light, start with heavy and you'll be heavy.

i adopted matt's training plan of slowly increasing the wieght of my training nunchaku, so my really nice curly maples seem really light when i spin em, and those are the ones i like to show off.

my heavier chux are all oak, my doubles are red oak, and i have a pair of those nine circles white oak that are heavier. when i really want a good work out, i take my 16" pipes, 2lb stainless steels out to my tree  and those really make the ole woodalls seem nice and light, and even make my white oaks seem lighter than they are. i think nunchaku need to be heavy enough to have a bit of momentum...but that is my preference.

[Vypor]

Just one more simple peice of advice

Having a dremmell and using it to it full capabilitys when building chucks = Very nice chucks

Especially when it comes to smoothing down the holes for your cord to prevent fraying. Wonderful tool, I just got mine last week and can already see a big change when im building nunchaku. It also an ideal tool to use for creating small pits for your cord on the sides of the nunchaku so the cord does stick out so much.

m gonna be posing pics of some of my new projects soon- im really bad about getting aorund to taking pictures.

[jmvicuna]

Just one more simple peice of advice

Having a dremmell and using it to it full capabilitys when building chucks = Very nice chucks

Especially when it comes to smoothing down the holes for your cord to prevent fraying. Wonderful tool, I just got mine last week and can already see a big change when im building nunchaku. It also an ideal tool to use for creating small pits for your cord on the sides of the nunchaku so the cord does stick out so much.

m gonna be posing pics of some of my new projects soon- im really bad about getting aorund to taking pictures.

Which tool do you use with your dremmell? only the sandpaper cylinder, or any other?

[Aerialist East]

Best material for wooden nunchucks is wood