Posts by Dan

Bill, I don't understand your instructions. There's only one adjustment that can be made and it lowers and raises the infeed table.

Aaron, some are very good.

Monster, yes interesting about not having a PH.

I remember Ryan posting a vid of how he first saw the tiger shark, if anyone can find it please post a link. I know it's on his video page but for some reason I can't see those videos.

I did mention that the line was braided. Jim made it a point to tell me about it so I did buy the braided line. Thanks Davie. I guess the only place to put the swivel is between the weight and the line?

Article HERE. This is not exactly hunting sharks, it was a defensive kill.

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Mr Clasen was hunting yellow fin tuna with fellow fisherman Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D.J Struntz and film maker Ryan McInnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the encounter took place.

The group were about to leave the deep waters south of the Mississippi River's mouth, when Mr McInnis found himself alone in the company of a tiger shark.
With no time to lose, Mr Clasen grabbed his speargun and swam to his stranded friend, who was being circled by the giant predator.
'I positioned myself between Ryan and the shark and I tried to watch it for a second, hoping it would pass us by,' explained 32-year-old Mr Clasen.
'I noticed that the shark was getting tighter and tighter and just kept trying to get a back angle on us and behaving in an aggressive manner.
'The shark made a roll and looked like it was going to charge us so I just went ahead and took the conservative route and put a shaft through its gills.
'Cameron and I have been around sharks for years and we all have a lot of experience with them but this encounter had a different feel to it.
'Down in my core I really felt the shark was there to feed. I didn't want it to come to that.'
Mr Clasen spent nearly two hours wrestling with the giant 12ft shark, spearing it seven times and even attempting to drown the beast before eventually finishing it off with a long blade knife.
'Once I shot it in the gills I felt a moral obligation to finish the job,' says Mr Clasen.
'I didn't want it to go on any longer than it had to. I shot the fish like I would do any other fish and worked it up closer and did my best to kill it as humanely as possible.
'I speared it in the gills which I knew would kill it and from that I tried to put a shaft into its brain as quickly as possible.
'I shot it six times in the head with a spear and I wasn't having much luck - it was a slow drawn out process.
'Sharks are so resilient and so tough from millions of years of evolution they are just survivors.
'The best way and quickest way to finish the job and kill the shark and recover it was to get a rope around its tail, drag it from the back of the boat and attempt to drown it.
'In the end we had put a knife its skull once I got lose enough to it and use a long blade knife even after trying to drown it.'

Mr Clasen has been free diving and fishing since an early age. Hailing from Mississippi, he was brought up in a fishing family, and is an expert in all fishing disciplines. Despite his experience, Mr Clasen took no pleasure in disposing of the giant shark.
'This was one of the most remorseful moments I have ever had in all of my years in hunting, gathering and fishing,' explains Mr Clasen.
'Personally I never shoot anything or kill anything that I am not going to eat.
'We saved the tail and the head, cut a giant chunk out of it and ate a piece.
'I wasn't there to hunt the shark, it was a defensive move for me and I would do it again. Unfortunately it had to be done and its not something I was proud of. It was a situation that presented itself to us. This was one of those rare instances where we had to protect ourselves.
'I have so much respect for sharks in general. With the amount of time that we spend out there we are exposed to so many potential risks.'

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My wife tells me when I really need to go diving, I guess she sees something. Right now I've been out of the water long enough. I'm really starting to feel the need to be in an ocean environment. I'm also more looking forward to a beach dive than a boat dive.

I don't know. The line is thin enough that it won't add too much drag. Depends on what kind of bottom the weight is placed I suppose. That's just a weight that was lying around, maybe there's a better option.

http://spearfishing.world/divi…/647-diy-marker-buoy.html

As per Jim's suggestion I used the grinder to cut a groove in the float. Started out with the belt sander but it was cutting too wide and shallow although it is also feasible. The grinder however leaves a nicer cleaner cut and depth is easier to control. The PVC is used to anchor the bungee which is used as a stopper. The PVC can also be used to let the line out as you loosely grip it with two hands. A mono loop at one end can be used to attach an additional marker such as a flag. The line I used is braided nylon masonry line, 50m is spooled on in the pic.

Possible improvements:
1. Using a grinder with a wider wheel to nicely cut a wider groove, allowing thicker line to be used.
2. A round weight with a hole in the middle that can be stored on the PVC pipe when not in use.

Here's the cost breakdown:
Lobster buoy - $3 Boater's world.
Masonry line - $10 Home Depot. Enough to make three 50m markers
PVC pipe - $2 Home Depo. Enough to.. well you know.
2 PVC end caps - $.50 Home Depot.
Bungee - A couple of $$ per foot at West Marine.
Mono loop and crimp.
2lb lead weight - $3 Diver's direct.
Total cost per float - About $10.

Thank you Bill. Your description of what happens is similar to my experiences. I believe the problem to be the short bed. I was looking at the jointer as a machine that should pretty much work on its own like a planer. Obviously this is not the case. Between the hand planer and the jointer I got two blanks more or less ready for the planer.

I'll take your word about the electric hand planer and not buy it.

I did a close enough job with the hand planer in 5 minutes, got the blank a little concave. Then finished it off with a couple of runs through the jointer. Not nearly as straight as wood guy makes the stocks but it will do.

Maybe I should have gotten an electric hand planer. I've really come to hate that jointer.

Here's a vid of how to use a jointer. That's the way I've been doing it. I believe the trick is to start plaining the convave side. The problem is never had a side that was perfectly concave. What I end up getting consistently after using the jointer is a convex shape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vny6CfdQJ0

I give up on this machine. There is no rhyme or reason to it. It may be good for creating a perpendicular surface to an already straight surface but for straightening forget it. What a POS. I think I can do better with a hand planer. Somebody please tell me I'm not nuts and that this machine is really good for nothing. I can't believe I managed to get one gun stock semi straight with it a few months back.

Don't know what you mean by reef shafts. The Neptonics Reef mech I use is for square notch/Riffe type shafts. Although I heard that the Neptonics Reef mech is also made for euro shafts (round notch).

Try giving Josh (Neptonics) a call 650-868-4211. There's no "guys", I believe it's a one man operation.

Thanks, this is exactly the one I have.

I've switched now from trying to figure out how to make it do its job automatically and rather use it as a shaping tool by marking spots that I feel should be reduced. I'm having moderate success and feel that eventually I may get the wood straight. But I feel I'm missing something, it should be easier than this.

I'm very frustrated right now. I have a planer/jointer it's not very long maybe 3 or 4 feet. The wood was just slightly bowed. I picked the side that is most straight to plane but the more I run it through the more bowed it becomes.

I don't understand the concept of the jointer/planer. I understand the concept of the planer it's very simple. You have one straight side (the bottom) and it reduces the top surface until it's the same as the bottom. But I can't reason out the jointer/planer. Can someone explain it to me? It seems no matter how I run the wood through as soon as it starts cutting I know by the sound that it's cutting at the wrong spot.

When I was growing up I didn't pay much attention to PVC other than it being used to make nets for street hockey. I wonder if PVC was as widely available then, or at least if it was as cheap as it is today. Nowadays I don't know what I'd do without it. So many uses limited only by the imagination; rod holder,lobster trap, knife sheath/handle, it doesn't end..

Yesterday I was watching a crime documentary which involved snatching body parts from cadavers and selling them for big $$$. There was the ring leader Michael Mastromarino and the funeral homes that cooperated with him. They were caught by one of the funeral home's new director after she touched a corpse's arm and it felt like Jello. The "cutters" removed the bones but didn't yet finish their job of replacing the bones with PVC.

This is one of the exhibits in the case, an X-ray of an exhumed body.

Thanks hau.

Aaron, thanks for posting that. It's hard to believe what I'm seeing, I'd think a dog/wolf could kill a bird like that with one bite and a shake. I still don't know what to think. Those are small wolves, similar in size to coyotes don't you think? I wonder if to train the birds they used weakened domestic dogs, puppies..

Damn, nice work as usual. Did you weld the aluminum?