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 of his 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 had Aluminum cores, and they were not mass produced boomerangs. These were the best performers. Some of these boomerangs may require fine tuning if they have been kept in storage and not thrown

This large boomerang is the Parrot 18, a hook model originated by Oscar Cuartas. This boomerang was custom made for Al Gerhards in 1983 using beautiful tropical hardwoods. The construction includes airfoil dimpling on both blades and an Aluminum core at the elbow to add stiffness and to increase density. The dingle arm has a large lead weight and a small lead weight embedded in the tip with the weights intersecting at the edges. This is the only Cuartas hook that I have seen with this weighting procedure. It has been stored in a controled environment for more than 25 years. Very rare. Only a couple dozen of these large Parrots were made and few made it to the USA. Most were thrown until they were worn out. Signed and dated 1983. This boomerang is in near mint condition. This boomerang is from Al Gerhards' personal collection.