Rod Jones became well known in the early 1980s for his beautiful sport booms. These were painted with air brush art and finished with a high gloss coating that make his boomerangs glow like jewels. Prices were high and buyers didn't like to throw them for fear of damaging the beautiful art work and high gloss finish. Rod also made boomerangs for competition. His competition booms included MTAs, Doublers, Fast Catch and Aussie Round booms. The MTA was laminated on a jig with a spherical surface to build in tune as he laminated 6 to 10 thin layers of hardwood to make the blank. This was important because the boomerang behaves like a spherical pendulum in flight. Al Gerhards is the only other boom maker who used a spherical shell to make his boomerangs and Al used his spherical shell to tune, not laminate, his blanks. In the 1990s, Rod quit making boomerangs and he took up fishing as a hobby. It has been almost 20 years since any of his art boomerangs have been sold as commercial products, so they have become valuable collectables.

This art boomerang from Volker Behrens' collection was made by Rod Jones in 1988. It is a small hook made in a shape similar to a Gerhards hook. It is called the Peregrine. It has a small weight in each tip and it was laminated on Rod's spherical jig with fibreglass in the core. The writing on the underside says " Made by Rod Jones ; Australia 8-88 ; spherical jig laminated 10 ply ; f/glass core ; 40-50 metres ". This boomerang is in very good condition, but the outer edge is chipped around the entire perimeter as though it was thrown often on rough ground. No cracks or dings or damage to the upper or lower surfaces, just to the outer edge. A rare collectable. Not test thrown, so it may need tuning.