Item L26
This Item was Sold on 27 September
2015 for $200
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This beautiful feather lapped omega was made in 1984 out of beautiful tropical hardwoods in Colombia. Oscar custom made this one for me as a lefty throwers. It is the only left handed Cuartas boomerang I have ever seen. The " 37 " refers to the blade to blade span in cm. This omega is unusual because the bottom veneer is glued to a solid sheet of Aluminum that spans the entire boomerang, not just the elbow as with the Parrot models. This boomerang is ultra stiff and it is an excellent flyer, perhaps one of my favorite boomerangs to throw by either hand. The flight range is 40+ metres. I haven't thrown it for more than 30 years and it has been kept in a climate controlled box so that it remains in mint condition. A very unique collectible from my personal collection.
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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