Posts by Dan

  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    As coherent as it gets :)


    This is the Seac handle I was referring to.





    This bump on the bottom back of my handle is what you call a rake? It makes tracking (if necessary) a breeze without tilting the gun. Especially easy is tracking up.




  • 14 ft Tiger shark caught off Key Biscaine

    I'd be even more happy if all sharks capable of causing me injury were gone. I find shooting wily muttons in 60ft challenging enough.


    Pitbulls I can handle <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    Cool story Don.


    When I made my first handle I traced out a Mares Cyrano handle, seemed like a good comfortable angle to start with. Then I reduced and added in different places to get what I use today. It's been the same since.

  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    Quote from fuzz

    Perhaps it's lack of use/familiarity/water-time?

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    You're right it's all personal preference. There will be people I suppose who will like the Aimrite handle, but there will also be people that won't. Those that won't who are inexperienced may not realize that there are others who don't like it either.


    With regards to water time :) You know I'm no big diver, I don't get out nearly as often as I like, hopefully that will change very soon. But I do have some experience setting up guys with gear, fins for example. Part of this involves observing them try the fins for the first time. Naturally I look for the wow factor, where the diver immediately recognizes the performance difference. Sometimes I get this reaction and sometimes it's not as pronounced depending on what the diver has been using previously and when was his last time in the water. Lets say he was using fiberglass fins and hasn't dove in a month. He'll be like yeah these are pretty good, light and cool looking, I'll take them. In this case I get the wow factor at a later time. The diver will at some point after having gotten accustomed to the new fins switch back temporarily to his old fins, maybe just for the hell of it, the consistent reaction is "I can't believe I used to use those.. and like them".


    My point is a performance difference is much more dramatic and obvious to a diver when going from one thing to another that's not as good, versus the other way around, going from something to another that's better. Same with the Aimrite handle, the moment I gripped it (in the water) I knew it sucks because I was using something better previously, so I didn't need more water time with it. If I had to point out the main negative aspect of it; it's so small in diameter and pointed straight down that you can't turn the gun, it slips inside your palm as if you were trying to hold a dowel.


    Handles such as Alexander and Merou with that back swell, while being better than the Aimrite handle, create a similar problem where the back swell turns inside the palm. A good handle that I've seen recently was on the seac speargun. A handle is such a simple thing when you understand that it's all about the angle, it's amazing so many manufacturers can't get it right.

  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    Quote from fuzz

    I thought the new European handles were awkward looking & even felt awkward when putting my hand around them:
    http://www.abellansub.com/productos.php?op=11&PHPSESSID=9d25ff73ce880cf7f3d12abb9abaeb61
    But in reality, it creates a very stable shooting platform.

    That's what a handle is all about, a stable shooting platform. You just have to not overdo it in the other direction where the handle can only be gripped in a specific way, so as to be impossible to grip when taking unconventional shots. It's a fine balance but I have achieved it for myself with the wood handles I make. It's understandable that everyone has different hands, but I believe some elements stay the same. Obviously IMO neither the Aimrite handle nor the Riffe handle incorporate those elements. And it's not that I have something against the manufacturer. Whenever someone asks which is the best gun to buy the only thing that's stopping me from wholeheartedly recommending a Riffe competitor series as the gun of choice is the handle. All the other details that I like my speargun to have which Riffe doesn't have such as enclosed track etc. are negotiable, the handle isn't.

  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    You should, but this is what you'd have to match. Don't forget the barrel bottom is rounded, and there's not enough room for a flat mount handle.



    Riffe handles are tough. They are also poor ergonomically. But at least there's something to grab (euro handle excluded). The Riffe handles are not a good design IMO, but not nearly as bad as the Aimrite handle.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    What's that on his his head? Is he going for the papa smurf look?





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  • Black Delrin handles with Shapelock grip

    My issue is not with the Aimrite handle durability, although that really puts the icing on the cake. It's just a terrible handle from an ergonomic standpoint. And Mr. Wong is not concerned with top quality, he's concerned with top profits which is another way of saying lowering costs, otherwise he'd have had another handle designed a long time ago.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    Use it as is, nature's camo <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    I used a wire brush wheel on a drill, but it can tare up plasic pieces some and will strip paint off an aluminum barrel.