Been itching to start building a new gun for a long time. Plus I need a nice stress reliever for taking breaks from work so I decided to start planning a new gun. I love my speardiver carbon pipegun, but ive been thinking about a 120ish wooden reef gun for a long time. So I decided on building a wooden euro gun with an American shaft. My main goal is to build a gun with some decent mass so I can power it up a little bit. And build an intricate tapered design to challenge my woodworking skills have fun designing it etc.
Heres the plan so far.
58" teak stock from the luxurious vaults of woodguy.
Vertical and horizontal taper, recessed handle. band recesses in stock.
Deep open track.
2x16mm tight bands.
Speardiver 7mm 62" US sharkfin shaft.
Speardiver AR-15 handle.
Speardiver reverse trigger mech.
Speardiver Line wrap/guide.
Im doing some planning in rhino3d trying to figure out a shape that will taper nicely, absorb the shape of the bands a bit, and level them out to some degree. So far this is what ive got. The end will probably need some adjustments to have a chance of holding the bands up how I want them to be. Maybe some stainless risers are in order.
Im open to any any all input and criticisms of the design. I might not listen, but I do appreciate different points of view on gun design. In the mean time its time to give Dan a visit and start collecting parts.
Updates will be coming slowly but steadily.