Omer Airbalete 110

Quote from Joe Acevedo

Don , that's the nicest fart gun I've ever seen ..

I heard that a 110 air gun = the power of a 130 band powerd gun,would you agree ??

Joe

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Harry is the guy to talk to...
I have not shot many guns with two bands in the 130 range, and it would depend on the efficiency of each gun and the dialed in power of each. I will say that when I was teamed up with a Scuba pro Engineer I watched him punch a 5/16 shaft from a 135 Mares( that we would load hand over hand with a cord and ball system at 35 bar) completely through a mossback at 26' and land the fish, It was a horizontal shot right in front of me at the end of his shooting line. That gun was a bomb but didn't like being cocked with the plastic muzzle baking in the hot sun. BOOM. The composite airgun parts are much stronger then the old days.

I not converting to air spring guns completely just want a very sleek and accurate close quarter fish shooter I can take through the surf.

Cheers, Don

Quote from Tin Man

I really love the look of the Mango wood. Beautifully done.

ThanksTinman, it is one of my favorites too along with Bird's eye maple, a cool gun handle wood.

some more progress during the rainy weekend here in Cali.

I filled the stock gun handle post with G-flez to reinforce the area where my 5/16 Ti tube will replace the 1/8''
handle pin. The handle assembly and post drilled for a interference fit of the new tube.
Next the left side handle blank was rough shaped after being G-flex epoxied to the G-10 core and right side.
One important thing I have learned making handles for my handguns and speaguns is to make sure one shapes the thumb and index finger reliefs to exclude any angles that can put a pressure point on the nerves of the fingers.

My thin hunting gloves are are worn to develop the final handle to hand fit. Old and young hands come together to refine the detail using wooden dowels wrapped with 220 sand paper, soon after my 11 year old son announces we will be building his first gun together.... This is the best part of being a dad.

Final pre-prep sanding will begin soon before Phil Herranen resin finish coats are applied.

Cheers Don

More images..

Cheers, Don

Quote from LunkerBuster

:notworthy3:

Great great stuff

Just for you LunkerBuster the good the bad and the ugly, here is 1st thin coat of Phil's resin. I flamed out 3 small bubbles that came out of the open grain. Tomorrow I'll sand with 220 and foam brush on the next coat, 4 to six should really do it. My glue line is wider than I like but I'll have to live with it.me and the kid had fun.
Cheers, Don

Quote from psychobilly

Don't worry about the glue line. Those little imperfections just tell you the product is hand made and it gives the gun some character. Just like when some music artists recorded some background static noise along with their music when cd's came out because digital music sounded too ''clean''.

Awesome work BTW!

Thanks it was a real back yard project, except for the G10 core I milled at a friends. I wanted to see what I could do with a belt sander, a hack saw and hand drill and cheep kid labor.

Cheers, Don

Going to re-sand the rear of the handle to see if I failed to remove the two dark spots that might be burnish marks from the belt sander..... or knots.

Cheers, Don

Update before I leave for work.
After a light sanding with 220 my burnish blemishes are gone. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Quote from Marco

Hi Don,

I know you already used it. At what pressure? How many shoots?

I shot it first with 30 bar of Nitrogen about a dozen times, then found a leak in the piston seal.
Then I converted it to Tomba vacuum barrel, and shot it about ten times @ 20 bar.

Back after work.

Cheers, Don

I really love this Phil Herrannen resin system, if you use it by the book it produces smooth bubble free and fish eye free glass like finish. I'm happy to say my burnish spots are gone and I'm only 2 coats away from completion. Tonight I'm drilling some abb shell disks to plug my Titanium tube with. ( Wear a charcoal mask when making any abb shell dust, bad for the lungs) Here is a pattern of my fish sight that I will be cutting from thin Ti sheet and bluing with a mini torch.Its bound to make the shaft go faster. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Cheers, Don

PS that's a reflection in the first image not a fish-eye.

After sanding with 220 the forth coat is a charm....still wet, will check for flaws in the AM, maybe the last coat.The tiger stripe pattern changes as the handle moves. I may use this wood for the handle of a gun I will build next year from a older gun drawing I made in 1985.

Cheers, Don

Quote from LunkerBuster

Splendid!! That is the nicest handle I have ever seen. What a great touch on any gun

Thanks but I have been doing a poor job of getting the digital camera to show the curves. I may have to go natural light and B+W exposure....back to making the pin and the Notre Dame ...go Irish.

Cheers, Don

After Irish beat USC.. I Sawed off and filed the stock handle loop from the bottom and added a old school green tuna cord loop.I do not trust the stock plastic loop for any fish over 10 lbs if the gun is rigged inline to a drag line. The tuna cord came from a roll I got from Charlie Sturgill before he passed away. I lashed the line with Dacron the way he taught me .... can still see his machinist's hands, twinkling eyes and big smile from the last day in his garage above PV.

I cut the the abb shell disks for inlay from my first Cali abb taken in the mid 70's when I moved here.
The cutting tool is made from a Ti tube the same size as the handle pin. A drill press and water spray keep the dust and heat down. ( Always wear a mask as abb dust is very bad for your lungs).

Cheers, Don

Quote from phil herranen

im glad you sanded out that burn mark. if you are anything like me it would have drove you crazy until you did . why not anodize the ti its supper ez and im sure you have everything to do it .
phil

Yeah there was no way I could leave it but my boy told me he liked the spots, I told him nature didn't grow it that way and out came the sandpaper.

I'm still on the fence between the battery and the mini torch, Ive done both...if the Ti was on a bike I'd just drive it like I stole it. and earn the blue.

Here is a trial assemble picture, but I going to let the gun handle set for 6 days to cure before it gets wet.
I can't tell you how much I love this resin... I've been using the overage to seal a new knife block and glue broken Xmas bits.

Cheers, Don

Quote from Dan

What a beauty.

Thanks Dan, the finger groves are soft and contoured while not being too clingy. The thumb ramp not so wide that I can't shoot comfortably with either hand when necessary.

Cheers, Don