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 19, a hook model originated by Oscar Cuartas. This boomerang was custom made for Ted Bailey in 1985 using beautiful tropical hardwoods. The construction includes strip laminations in the elbow and feather lapping on the blades. The core has an Aluminum sheet to add stiffness and increase density. The dingle arm has three embedded lead weights. The lift arm has two embedded lead weights. Both blades have a large array of depressions or dimples on the trailing edges to improve the flight performance, much in the same way that dimpling on golf balls reduces aerodynamic drag. I threw this boomerang several times when it was received in 1985. The flight range is 80-100 metres and it was a terrific flyer. It has been stored in a controlled environment for more than 25 years. Very rare. Only a few of these large Parrots were ever made and they were only made for close friends of Oscar. Signed and dated 1985. This boomerang is in near mint condition. The original package from Oscar to myself is included in the sale.