Aloha Guys,
Here are a couple of guns that I picked up the other day. I found the Jack gun at a local pawn shop and it came with a few shafts. The guy that sold it to the shop had painted it and was still using it to spear fish. The second one is a Tarzan Tahiti which I don't know much about. Any help and info about it would be great. I hope the pictures came out. Two more for the collection. Mahalo Kip:thumbsup2:
Vintage spearguns
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Damn those are pretty sweet. 3rd and 4th pics look like an old luger..Wonder how they looked before the pawn shop paint job
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Very cool.
This is all I have on the Tarzan Tahiti, I don't personally have one. This is from the French harpoon site.Cheers, Don
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Aloha Don and thank you. Now if I could only read it. lol I am trying to get some history also from the owner of the Jack gun as to how he acquired it and so on. Mahalo, Kip
The 2 shaft with tabs (jack gun) are Jacks original, made with his hands. The Rife reel on it looks to be from the 70's after Jay's brother had sold the rights. It has a knurled drag adjuster knob.
Cheers, Don
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The 2 shaft with tabs (jack gun) are Jacks original, made with his hands. The Rife reel on it looks to be from the 70's after Jay's brother had sold the rights. It has a knurled drag adjuster knob.
Cheers, Don
That's good to know about the shafts and that there were made with his hands. I have a Samson long tom at the post office that I have to pick up this Tuesday. It`s only missing the tip and hopefully I can find one somewhere. So many guns so little money. :laughing:
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Aquahunter, congrats on the acquisition. Those are interesting pics, you should upload them to a picture hosting site and embed them in the post instead of attaching them. This way they can be viewed in original size and the details can be seen better.
What diameter shafts are with the Prodanovich gun? And what fish/hunting was it meant for?
Man I loved Tarzan books when I was a kid.
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I will mail you a brand new Samson trigger assembly as a gift if you PM be your Address. I have have most of Herb Samson's gun tooling.
Cheers, Don
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Aquahunter, congrats on the acquisition. Those are interesting pics, you should upload them to a picture hosting site and embed them in the post instead of attaching them. This way they can be viewed in original size and the details can be seen better.
Aloha Dan,
I will as soon as I know what to do:confused1: -
I will mail you a brand new Samson trigger assembly as a gift if you PM be your Address. I have have most of Herb Samson's gun tooling.
Cheers, Don
Aloha Don,
Wow!!!! Thank you very much for the gift!!! PM will be sent
Mahalo Kip -
Georges Beuchat had been running to the eighties the diving trademark Beuchat (created in 1934!)
He invented for the spearos a lot of diving gear innovations !!;)
first "euro" band gun in 1947
first knife attached to the leg
first belt "marseillaise" with probe
first wetsuit in 1953
the legendary "Jetfin" 1964
floating system
....QuoteMan I loved Tarzan books when I was a kid.
Tarzan name was given to guns and wetsuits...
The Movie company MGM forced beuchat to give up with "Tarzan" because of film copyright... -
Aquahunter, congrats on the acquisition. Those are interesting pics, you should upload them to a picture hosting site and embed them in the post instead of attaching them. This way they can be viewed in original size and the details can be seen better.
What diameter shafts are with the Prodanovich gun? And what fish/hunting was it meant for?
Man I loved Tarzan books when I was a kid.
Aloha Dan,
The shafts are 3/8 inch and the guy was probably hunting parrotfish.:crazy:
I will try to get some more pics up thru a hosting site this week.
Aloha Kip -
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Georges Beuchat had been running to the eighties the diving trademark Beuchat (created in 1934!)
He invented for the spearos a lot of diving gear innovations !!;)
first "euro" band gun in 1947
first knife attached to the leg
first belt "marseillaise" with probe
first wetsuit in 1953
the legendary "Jetfin" 1964
floating system
....Tarzan name was given to guns and wetsuits...
The Movie company MGM forced beuchat to give up with "Tarzan" because of film copyright...Mahalo Virgili
Here`s more
Beuchat Timeline of Developments1947: Tarzan Speargun
1948: Surface Buoy
1950: Tarzan camera housing
1950: Tarzan Calf cover
1953: 1st Isothermic wetsuit
1958: Compensator (single-window mask)
1960: Espadon nervure fins
1963: Tarzan wetsuit
1964: Jetfins (1st vented fins. 100,000 units sold in the first few years)
1964: Souplair regulator release
1975: Marlin speargun -
I thought that Pirelli made the first wetsuit.
Anyway, competition between French and Italians is an old story...
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competition between French and Italians is an old story.
100% right and since a long timeThe film "The big blue" immortalized the competition betwen Enzo Maiorca and Jacques Mayol...
I met a couple of times J Mayol on the french Riviera: an easy going gentelman
He commited suicide by hanging himself...Was told about broken heart...
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But IT WAS Pirelli.
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100% right and since a long time
The film "The big blue" immortalized the competition betwen Enzo Maiorca and Jacques Mayol...
I met a couple of times J Mayol on the french Riviera: an easy going gentelman
He commited suicide by hanging himself...Was told about broken heart...Yes, deep depression is a killer.
Don
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Aloha Don,
I got my Samson long tom today and doing a quick check to see if you know what size threading the shafts are? I will be looking for one that fits his gun.
Mahalo KipHerb used 3/8 and 5/16 shafts. I'll measure the threads Tues, I get brain dead when tired.
Cheers, Don
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