Rod Jones became well known in the early 1980s for his beautiful and high performance sport boomerangs. His boomerangs were painted with air brush art and finished with a high gloss coating that made 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 events. His competition booms included MTA, 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 to 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 commercially, so they have become valuable collectables.

This art boomerang from Volker Behrens' collection was made by Rod Jones in 1986. It is a medium sized flared V-omega called " Rod's Runner ". The writing on the underside says " Made by Rod Jones ; Australia for Volker Behrens Rod's Runner I 8-86 ". The outer edges have some chipping of the paint and there are some scratches, etc. as expected on a boomerang that was thrown instead of being put into a collection box. No cracks or major dings or other major damage, so this one is still in very good condition. A rare collectable. Not test thrown by myself, but these are almost always very nice flyers and wonderful sport booms.