Ray Rieser was one of the hardest working administrators in the formative years of the United States Boomerang Association. Ray was USBA treasurer and the MHR newsletter editor and production manager. Ray was also a collector of both contemporary and antique boomerangs. He has one of the finest collections anywhere. Ray made very few boomerangs, but the ones that he made were fantastic. I have only two in my personal collection and they are not for sale at any price. Ray dropped out of the boomerang movement in the mid to late 1980s, but the work that he did was essential to the success of the USBA over the next two decades.

This item is a cherrywood natural elbow boomerang in the shape of Eric Darnell's Wizard. This is the name that Eric used for this shape before he mass produced the popular proFly. This boomerang is finely sanded and it has wonderful airfoiling. It has a gun oil finish which is somewhat dull because it hasn't been oiled in more than 20 years. It is not signed, but I will personally guarantee that this is a Ray Rieser natural elbow because I have a matching one from the same elbow in my personal collection. This elbow is in very good condition. The trailing edges have a couple of very shallow blemishes that can be sanded out, but I would leave this one alone. One other note is that in order to obtain this shape, Ray had to make an elbow out of a piece of Cherry where a branch came out of a tree. The interface between the two blades is not a strong as it would be if it were made out of a solid branch, so please go easy with it if you decide to throw it. This is not the kind of boomerang that you would want to power throw into the ground. A wonderful and very rare collectable!