Posts by Dan

  • Home Depot your other LDS - Cheap dive knife

    Yes and if not English then Spanish for sure. I'll bet you guys are already salivating over the free sample knives they're going to send <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> It's not that difficult to start doing biz with one of these manufacturers. In these days of such strong competition in the market place they're happy to accommodate new accounts. You just have to communicate with them in such a way that they take you seriously. Problem is I don't really like any of their knives %100. I want one knife that's ideal for my use and they don't have it.

  • Home Depot your other LDS - Cheap dive knife

    Jeff, I used to know the number, maybe 10-24? Anyways it's the steel that doesn't rust at all and is stiff, but doesn't hold a super sharp edge. At least for the model that is the Riffe spearfisher's knife which is the one with the blue handle in the pic.

  • New gun partially enclosed track

    Quote from Marco

    Riffe Competitor Reloaded! :thumbup:

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    You have to feel how it is to grip that handle and track that gun, it makes all the difference. The guys that have held my previous guns which have the same handle will vouch for that. Riffe competitor would be a very nice gun if it wasn't for the Riffe handle. They had a chance to put a nice handle on a gun with the Riffe euro but messed it up even more.

  • Broward Beach Conditions

    I wasn't implying that you should stick the camera on the gun. I would find that a hindrance. I'd only put it on if my whole objective was to shoot a video of a speared fish. I was just saying since you contribute so much to the forum some pics of the catch would be very very cool. I believe my camera in its case does float.

  • Home Depot your other LDS - Cheap dive knife

    As it is I rely on Home Depot for a lot of things related to dive gear but this takes the cake. I was there today looking for knife related stuff and just walking through the isles my eyes rested on this in the duct tape section.




    It's marketed as a serrated duct knife. Hardened stainless steel. Blade is 14cm, handle is 12.5cm, overall length 27cm. The blade is pretty stiff, I think I could chip rock with it. The handle is nice and grippy, the back has a stainless steel piece that can be used to hammer. The sheath is nylon webbing and has one loop in the back to put on a belt. $12 :0


    It's a little big but over all a very good tool for the money. I bought it just to take some pics and show you guys and was going to return it but now I think I'll keep it.

  • New gun partially enclosed track

    I'm not looking at it from the perspective of why they're not "made" round. Manufacturers have their own reasons for making guns the way they do and the rest just follow suit. I wouldn't make a round gun for the same reason I don't like the Riffe euro. To be stiff enough the diameter of the round gun would have to be fairly big, at least bigger in diameter than your conventional pipe gun. When you stretch the bands on that you'll get an off shape that is hard to grip and carry through the water, over time this does become a factor. This same effect is seen in the Riffe euro; the stock is wider than it is tall in the first place and when the bands are stretched and you have to grip the whole thing the effect is exaggerated to the point of being uncomfortable for me to carry. When you have a stock that is taller than it is wide and the bands are stretched it sort of becomes round as far as how it is to grip.

  • New gun partially enclosed track

    It does matter. It has to do not only with the shape that is cutting through the water but the trailing shape as well. If the shape is not hydrodynamic such as in the case where there are sharp angles there will be turbulence created behind the moving object which will retard the movement. I remember doing this experiment in school where we dragged different shapes through a long tank of water with constant force by connecting them to the same weight and letting it drop to the ground. The most hydrodynamic shapes covered the distance faster. Same idea as the bicycle helmet.


  • New gun partially enclosed track

    Marco, I have to disagree. It's not about liking Riffe, it's about the minimum dimension of stick that will support the band load. Once you start playing with contours is precisely when you start adding unnecessary mass. I can close my hand around the stock and stretched bands and carry the gun comfortably. This I can't do with wood European guns that I've seen in person like Abellan and Spetton grand pacific, they're huge and bulky by comparison to the one I built. I suppose I could have made the gun stock even slimmer, I'll save that for the next one.


    One thing that boggles my mind is when people start talking about ease of tracking when comparing the Riffe competitor series versus the Riffe euro. The actual stock dimensions of the euro are identical to the competitor, the euro is simply turned 90 degrees. So now you have a gun that supposedly moves side to side better but what about up and down? :rolleyes: This basically sums up my thoughts on fancy profiles for better tracking. I'm content to agree to disagree on this one.

  • Kitto M6 mech now has resetting release

    Jeff, that's how straight shaft builds his resetting line release going back a few years. Nice to see it here in your detailed pics as I recently asked him for the same, thanks for posting. It's another option although like you I prefer when it's all tucked out of sight.