Oscar Cuartas made beautiful muical instruments out of tropical hardwoods in his native Colombia from the 1940s until his death in 2005. Oscar also made a wonderful line of high performance boomerangs using the same tropical hardwoods and advanced woodworking skills that included feather lapping and bonding aluminum sheet to wood. Oscar won the coveted boomerang design award with one o fhis large Parrot hooks at the 1984 World Cup, beating out the Janetzki brothers. Cuartas boomerangs were marketed through the Boomerang Man throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. The earlier models made before1987 and with Aluminum cores, were not mass produced and these were the best performers. Some of these boomerangs may require fine tuning if they have been kept in storage and not thrown

This beautiful copy of the famous Gerhards Hook was made in 1984 out of tropical hardwoods and with strip laminations at the elbow and feather lapping on both sides. There is an Aluminum sheet in the core and two lead weights in each tip. I am only aware of 5 copies of this model. I did not test throw this one because it is very rare and almost 30 years old. This one looks solid and without unfavorable warpage. It is in near mint condition and it is signed and dated 1984. A rare and excellent collectable.