Posts by Dan

If you mean the brand Speedos bikini/briefs yes they're overpriced at about $30. They are well made though.

What's CGI?

Nice. One of my daughter's first words was also fish, she's 5 now.

He's advertising rubber straps

What's worse is that he's trying to market it.

I think that diver's a fool. It's an accident waiting to happen.

Ben, I wouldn't call your Andre speargun slender, not by a stretch. It is precisely a west coast style gun.

My experience has been that an enclosed track gun is not slower to load, maybe even faster. Do you open the first few inches of the track?
Open track is more expensive in the sense that the only guns on the market with an enclosed track are custom guns and therefore more expensive. But for me an enclosed track gun costs the same or maybe less to make than an open track, I save on the line guide.
I wouldn't want to shoot a bent spear, I try to straighten a bent spear right away, loading a shaft into an enclosed track will give you a clear idea if a shaft is adequately straight.

That said I like deep open tracks, for the power I like on my gun I don't think the enclosed track makes a difference in accuracy. What I like about it are the small details; eliminating the line quide, faster loading, some other things I can't remember

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Dan,
What dimensions do you usually make your gun stocks?

I'm not a gun maker, I make a gun here and there because I can't get what I want another way. My preferred dimensions are of the gun in the link I posted.

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I may be wrong but I feel it is more accurate than a shallow track and is less of a compromise as a enclosed track.

What do you mean is less of a compromise?

Nice. It's the same trick they used to make the catching laptops with the ass video. I know it has to be some kind of combination filming and it drives me crazy not knowing how it's done.

3/32"

The Speardiver Shaft Drilling Jig guides a 3/32" drill bit, which is the standard diameter for a flopper pin, to make perfectly centered holes in shafts ranging from 5/16" (8mm) in diameter and down. The 3/32" hole can then be used as a pilot hole if a larger diameter hole is needed. The jig is 3" long X 1" wide X 1" tall.

• Quickly and easily change the length of a shaft and reposition the flopper
• Add a pin for loading another band
• Increase band stretch by putting a pin closer to the trigger mechanism
• Add a rest pin for ease of loading
• Add a pin to keep one band at minimal stretch when powering down, rather than leaving it to flop around
• Add a pin to rig a Heinrich line release
• Make stringers from old bent shafts

How to use the jig
Slide the shaft in the jig, choose one of the 5 holes and position it over where you want the hole to be. Tighten the two Allen screws, the shaft is then held securely and the jig automatically centers and guides the drill bit. With a drill press hand pressure is enough to hold the jig and shaft. If a hand drill is used the jig can be secured in a vice. After drilling the hole turn the jig upside down, there are 9/32" holes on the bottom of the jig corresponding to the 3/32" holes on the top, use a 9/32" drill bit in a hand drill to deburr the bottom of the new hole and allow removal of the shaft from the jig. Blow out all debris so as not to jam the jig, loosen the Allen screws and slide the shaft out of the jig.

The jig is available Spearfishing Store Speardiver Spear Shaft Drilling Jig

What a pleasure it is to use the Speardiver jig after 10 years of making these holes with an electric hand drill, sometimes without a vice to hold the shaft. The drill bit would dance on the round shaft surface even when I'd use a file or a punch to mark the metal to start it off. The resulting holes were rarely centered, and would rarely run straight through the shaft on any plane. The process would take up to 20 minutes and was exhausting. I'd have to stop at least a couple of times to sharpen the drill bit and a few more times just to rest. Sometimes because of putting sideways pressure on the hand drill the bit would break right when the hole was almost finished. If the drill bit broke off close enough to the shaft, the shaft would be scrap as there was no way to get the drill bit piece out, and repositioning the flopper was no longer an option. Holes that were not straight interfered with the proper deployment of the flopper. I recently bought a drill press from Harbor freight for $70. With this drill press and the jig it takes me less than one minute to make a perfect hole in a stainless steel shaft with a cobalt drill bit.

In Cuba for lack of tools and materials I've seen them use one of these hand drills. Now that was pure torture and would take hours for one hole

The Cyrano starts out with a rubberized coating over the aluminum barrel. You need to make sure you strip it all off. I think to do it properly you'll need to disassemble the gun.

Not all Americans prefer bulky wood guns, this is mostly a west coast thing. You can see my preferred gun and the dimensions here http://spearfishing.world/spea…-made-a-new-speargun.html

The sculpted "artistic" guns you speak of by their nature increase the size of the stock considerably. For this reason I stay away from them. The only production guns made to my preference as far as stock dimensions are the Riffe competitor series. These are good guns but have one major drawback, the handle.

I'm all for another manufacturer stepping in and filling the gap. However it will be hard to compete with Riffe prices and at this point firm grip of the market.

If you sell from Australia you will not do well here because shipping costs are too high, the number of competitors already making guns, and those trying to enter the American market. If you sell through a distributor, and I were said distributor, I would only buy the stocks, meaning the guns would be shipped without shaft/bands/bungee/mono. So you're looking at having to price competitively a piece of wood with a trigger. To compete with the other manufacturers this piece of wood would have to be teak, and would have to be laminated, and guaranteed for a few years.

That said lets see some pics of your guns.

Do you think it's directed at spearos?

I used shrink tubing once on Cyrano 970, turned out good. Until I did that I didn't know shrink tubing comes in such a large diameter. You have to pick the right diameter and shrink ratio. The shrink tubing I found is black and somewhat glossy.

Good thread. Should we add pics showing coloration when dead?

Yeah I know it's a different species. Black grouper can appear differently sometimes, see these pics.

Looks a lot like a black grouper here.

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