New gun...

    Hi all
    This post to show my first gun build...
    It is a 90 cm euro, made of 4 lams (teak/mahogany/mahogany/teak) and handle made of walnut. It has at tung oil finish that has hardened up nicely to a very tough surface.
    With the gun being so slim it was quite nose heavy when i first took it to the water for balancing out. I solved the problem by routing in a piece of cork in the barrel, lining it with black rubber, for looks.
    This gun shoots fine and straight and got me a PR this autumn :)


    More guns are to come for sure...

    Very nice mate, I now remember talking about the cork with you on another forum perhaps a year ago.
    Glade you found us here.:toast::toast:


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

    Nice clean lines and very tight construction, I like it a lot.


    Another thing you can do to get the balance right is perhaps play with the length of the shaft. I don't know how long is the overhang, i like 8 to 10 inches but if the problem is solved i would call it fixed. Is the black material some sort of plastic or epoxy? I would think something to isolate the cork from the rest of the wood would be good so the water retained by the cork doesn't cause problems.

    steve veros


    in loving memory of paolo

    Why the Riffe mech, just out of curiousity? Wouldn't it have been easier to fit a Neptonics or something like that?


    Exceptionally beautiful gun, though. I really love the lines and the handle!

    Nice touch with the handle being made of black walnut, since it's the wood traditionally used for gun stocks (light, good at absorbing vibration and shock).


    What was the PR?

    Alex

    Gun looks nice.


    Personally I reckon in this style of gun the riffe/undersee etc mechs look better than the square ones.


    Is there anything other than glue holding the handle on?



    Metalin, when you say change the length of shaft are you talking about open or closed tracks.
    I couldnt imagine all of my guns having different overhang, I aim off the tip of the shaft and if I use a smaller shaft it goes high, longer shaft it shoots low. I tend to use 40mm overhang. So for a 110cm gun I use a 160 long shaft.

    Nice looking gun. The Riffe mech is thinner than Neptonics/Aimrite/Niletech type mechs and will allow more wood around the mech in thin guns. This is important to me because I like thin wood guns. On the gun pictured here its not an issue.

    Thanks for kind words.


    Thats true Don, you adviced me last summer on balancing this gun - your advice was spot on :)
    My inspiration has come from Riffe and Spearotiki - Riffe for its raw looks/functionality. Spearotiki for beauty and love of wood.
    The shaft overhang is about 10 inches which suits me fine for sighting. The cork is set in rubber cement, I believe it is also used for yacht flooring... but you are right Steve, I do not want any hidden pockets of water, I must pay attention to that.
    The Riffe mech was what I got my hands on, and it is a sweet trigger compared to the ones I have on my Omers - but it will not be first choice for my next guns... letting the trigger housing in the wood is a bit akward, as the side walls flare out. I would love to try Neptonics, but it is too difficult to get my hands on shafts with square notches. He does not make triggers for euro shafts???
    The gun is glued with PU glue, but the handle also has a mechanical lock, some sort of wide sliding dovetail - that way I can not pull the handle "out of the gun" when raising or lowering the gun in the water.


    ah... and the PR this gun got me, is a sea trout (salmo trutta) weighing around 17 pounds :))


    /Henrik

    Neptonics sells mechs for euro shafts but there not in the website, give Josh a call or if you want try and find a nile tec reverse euro mech.

    Quote from Marco

    Pics? :rolleyes1:


    Many of you guys are posing in tropical blazing sun... would so much want to try that :)
    Well, here is a bit of my Scandinavian reality :D
    This is my PR, a sea trout (salmo trutta), that I stunshot one evening in oktober, weighing approx. 17 pounds and measuring 35 inches, and one of the bigger ones caught i Denmark this year.
    Water temp 45 F...


    /Henrik

    Wow that is a great looking fish, fire up the smoker and break out the wine.:thumbsup2:


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


    Spearfishing Store the freediving and spearfishing equipment specialists.

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