I dedicate this thread to Master US speargun builders who stand in cold garages late into the night bringing us tasteful well crafted creations.:thumbsup2:
I would like to see the work of the US Custom Sperosmiths. ( yes my new word).;)
Cheers, Don
I dedicate this thread to Master US speargun builders who stand in cold garages late into the night bringing us tasteful well crafted creations.:thumbsup2:
I would like to see the work of the US Custom Sperosmiths. ( yes my new word).;)
Cheers, Don
heres a couple
this one has a integrated bungee so you dont have to fight the bungie in the kelp or have it tangle in your fins but the fish is on bungie the second you pull the trigger you cant see it in the pic but the bungie sits up in a grove on the bottom of the gun so there is no vibration when tracking.
phil
some bamboo
phil
some carbon
this is a 72" 3 5/8" band euro with a new 1 piece handle trigger mech with a auto reset bottom line release
the gun is widest in the middle and tapers to both ends on the sides and bottom there is a grove on the bottom so the shooting line doesn't slip off the belly and wont chatter . the other gun is my aimrite i modified (with ricks permission)
phil
a pile of guns and some camo
phil
mmmmmm... Water ballasted carbon fiber. I may kill you and steal it while I'm there. Just saying...
Thank you Phil a perfect start. I would like to also see posts from Woodman, Tin man, Metelin,and Wood Man. Then I will find images of one of my early gun mentors work who lives in Hawaii. His name is George Kuznecovs, a early master of the elegant wooden gun and burner of film.
I only met him once and handled one of his fine creations when I first met Jay Rife many years ago but was forever inspired. I would love to own one of his guns some day.
Cheers, Don
That blue camo is simply insane! I love it.
Phil, what am I looking at on this handle?
That blue camo is simply insane! I love it.
Phil, what am I looking at on this handle?
Heaven.
mmmmmm... Water ballasted carbon fiber. I may kill you and steal it while I'm there. Just saying...
Seems like fair warning:D
hahaha:laughing3:
Phil those are insane....the attention to the small things is what sets them apart. thank you for sharing those.
any pics of the rollergun w bands on it?
edit...upon further inspection...it is a rollergun? the bamboo one?
That blue camo is simply insane! I love it.
Phil, what am I looking at on this handle?
Monterey pine ,pine cone
Monterey pine ,pine cone
Very cool, that is a first for me, what a great material for a northern gun.:thumbsup2:
Cheers, Don
some carbon
this is a 72" 3 5/8" band euro with a new 1 piece handle trigger mech with a auto reset bottom line release
the gun is widest in the middle and tapers to both ends on the sides and bottom there is a grove on the bottom so the shooting line doesn't slip off the belly and wont chatter.
phil
Beautiful gun!
fusiles preciosos, gracias por las fotografías.
precious guns, thanks for the pictures.
Quality guns.
:thumbsup2:
Here are couple of my guns under construction.
Sven handles the laminating in his autoclave and does the machining and I sand.
One thing that I like to think is unique to these is that he laminates the materials with carbon fiber unidirectionals between the wood layers. When the layers are together the stock goes into his autoclave that pulls a vacuum at 230F. This yields a crazy stiff and uniform blank. He's got a photo in his shop of him using a 60-something inch wood gun to lever his one ton truck up to change a tire.
One gun is teak and zebra, 63" , the other is purple heart/teak also 63 inches. Their shape is similar to a Merlo and both are set for 5/16 shafts and 3-5/8 bands. So Cal guns that will be for YT and Baja for anything short of Pargo, ideally for Wahoo.
Here's a couple more.
They use Neptonics parts, the Tuna mech and the UHMW tracks. They're laminated as I described in the vac bagging thread.
These pics are of a gun he's building that he's actually excited about.
It's teak with the carbon fiber between the lams and has a shape combining a Merlo and the mass of a Sea Sniper. He's in the process of determining the balance and ballast at which point the laterally split lams will have the ballast installed and then fully glued up. This is so the gun won't need tubes to keep it straight/rigid and the need to fill the tubes with water when you first go in the water.
It's going to be a 60" gun with a 5/16 shaft and three 5/8 bands for WSB and YT and again uses the Neptonics parts.
Here's my 65" custom Death Stick. This gun has a lot of history behind it. My uncle used to build cabinetry on Yachts 40+ years ago. He explained he had to hand pick the teak off the delivery trucks because it all came from Vietnam and was full of shrapnel.
Any way, my uncle kept 6 boards he felt were especially beautiful. Fast forward 44 years, he decided to give me some of his prized teak for a bluewater gun build. Ken at Death Stick did the laminating and trigger pocket work while I did the finish work.
Hop you like it.
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