Item L24
This Item was Sold on 30 August
2022 for $360
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This feather lapped kook was made out of tropical hardwoods in 1984. Signed, but not dated. This boomerang has 3 full lead weights and two sheets of Aluminum as internal plies. It is in almost new condition. I purchased it from the boomerang Man at the 1984 Challenge Match between the USA and Australia. The B'Man logo came lose and was removed from the lower surface and you can see a slight disturbance in the surface finish where the label was removed. Also, you can see minor age cracks in the surface because the wood lost moisture over the past 38 years, but nothing that would result in a loss of structural integrity. This is one of the oldest boomerangs that I have seen from Oscar Cuartas and it was a very nice longer range flyer. A rare and very collectible boomerang.
Oscar Cuartas made beautiful musical 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 before 1987 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 |
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