Beautiful pics. Sorry about your finger. It's a strange looking injury. The only way I can think of that happening is getting it smashed between two objects. If that was the case why is it only on one side? You'll know if you need it to be checked out.
Exactly, I had my finger in a bad place on the dive ladder between some moulding and the ladder and put my weight on it. 1/4 of my nail on the other side is also purple. But more then enough of is fine that it won't fall off.
Get that thing x-rayed
Naww I'm fine. Appreciate the concern though. I don't think its broken, I can move it around pretty good. I think its mainly just broken bloodvessles. Ive squished fingers worse before.
Yeo tried out tons of gear and really if every day was like today id probably still live to dive. Lunker Ive never been so happy to see black and blue.
Heres a few pics and go pro caps.
Crazy sunrise.
saw lots of little hogs today, I love following them around and watching them do their thing.
E.T. phone home!!! the other side is about as bad.
Today was a good time but not very productive. Went out fishing early, started the day with a postcard sunrise. But also a clean ocean and not much action. We hit a school of blackfins and picked one up. Tuna tataki tonight.
On the way back in we found a bit of flotsam holding bait so I jumped in. Flashers worked well (although they need some improvements) and brought some schoolie dolphins in. But nothing large ever showed up so we headed to the reef.
Jumping in i smashed my finger in dive ladder, at first thought I had cut it off, so I slowly peeled off the glove and luckily it was only completely purple. So I put the glove back on and carried on. Viz was horrific everywhere. About 15 feet or so. And there was a tricky current that kept taking me off the reef. Still managed a few good snappers for the grill tonight.
Dan, the new spearing vest worked incredibly well.
Like a boss. I think you found the best viz out there. Even offshore it was really bad. And jellies, lots of jellies. Nice work especially for today.
This is exactly what Ive been looking for! A little something extra for those colder summer days where as suit will boil you but just a rashguard gives you a chill.
Looking Great!!!! Very excited to see it finished and killing
Happening soon hopefully! I was hoping for this weekend but it doesn't look like ill be finished.
Had a bit of a mishap with drilling the trigger too wide. In the end I decided to plug it. Plugging was fun to say the least. But it turned out well. Also glued the handle in.
I also drilled the band slot and cut a line guide.
Built a trigger guard out of some measuring cups from the kitchen (dans idea) And at the same time gave the gun a name lol.
Drilled the pins out aswell.
Once I coat the handle and the gun I should be ready to assemble.
Amazing video. Especially the shot of you guys swimming up after shooting that hog and you diving. Never enough third person angles in spearfishing videos. Also enjoyed the choice of music.
I am glad to see someone else shoot a speargun like a pistol. I thought I was the only crazy two handed shooter. :thumbsup2:
Notice the first post date, it's 3.5 years ago. The product selection hasn't changed much, except for the decals
I think I saw one of them on a boat the other day.
DIY Catamaran. A few more passes and he will be finished with the conversion.
My last light had a clip that allowed it to go right on my weight belt. But it wasnt bright enough. I got this one feeling that I might be annoyed by it dangling since it had no clip but I found that to not be the case. I think with so many exits for an entanglement (unclip it, ucut it, unclip my belt, pulling hard enough to break it) I should be fine if its at all awkward I'm definitely ditching it though.
Visited Dan again to get set up with a 7mm shaft. We chopped it with a 13" overhang, sharpened it, and polished the tip. Then Dan used his awesome flopper pin jig to re-do the flopper.
Late last night I did the mortise pocket for the handle. Realized I would need a recess for it to fit flat because the gun wasn't wide enough. I cut the recess with a dremel, shortened the tenon a bit, and got the handle fitted. I will most likely extend the recess past the trigger guard. But I made a mistake with the trigger last night (made a too big hole bigger) and I may want to plug and recut it. I also cut the recess for the line anchor. Now I need to figure out what I'm gonna do with the trigger and then pin and install the mech.
If I squint hard enough I can actually read Salvimar 140cm on the flopper in the pic lol. But that might just be the flopper. Salvimars current offerings don't seem to include wire shark finned shafts.
I had the exact same project in mind for flashers glad to see it in reality, was going to use stiff wire on the sides of my flasher rig to offer some stability and structure so the mirrors could spin easily but its all in my head have not built one as yet so maybe what your doing is the better way...Got the idea after seeing guys using old CD's as flashers.
Great work on the stock and handle, very cool so far :cool2:
Thanks If you look closely, mine aren't done in a ladder style as I believe you are thinking about. They are just strung vertically with 2 feet of mono and swivels in-between. I thought about doing a ladder style flasher with wires for the sides but In the end I realize it would likely be too cumbersome and prone to tangles. And it would be much smaller target depth wise. The configuration I used I don't think will produce tons of spinning effect, but I think the bobbing of the float and the weight on the bottom will cause them to flutter pretty heavily. Atleast thats the idea 
Ill be sure to take a video of them in action when I get out again. If they don't work well, I may consider the ladder.
Thanks,
Yes it was a pretty slow process. But I love woodworking and even enjoy the sanding part. Dan offering up his router and round bits saved me a tremendous amount of time too. No trigger guard yet. I plan to use a small length of stainless steel with one side mortised into the handle and the other side screwed into the stock.
You are very right about the holes. My new motto will be no hole left behind. Im always looking in holes during lobster season anyways.
Ive also recently set up my flashlight in a way thats really conducive to hunting holes. I put my light on a retractable scuba lanyard that goes on my belt. That way its always useable and out of the way at the same time. I used to just clip it to my belt and it was too often a pain in the ass.
Phil,
This isn't the best pic, but the UluSub handle is set into the stock. I had to gouge it out since it's thicker than the standard Wong handle which was flush with the wood. The mounting plate is about 3/8 inch thick and only a little is sticking up.
Is this what you mean by "Mortised"? And how do you mount it without screws?
Thanks
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(sorry for the slght derail George. :D)
Hank I believe Phil means its better to scrap the plastic handle all together and do it out of wood with a mortise and tenon like Dan did here Ive had fun doing mine. But its definitely infinitely more labor intensive then screwing a handle on. So I can see why production spearguns dont come with them.
Thanks Jose,
With more major help from Dan I made significant progress on the handle. We used his router to round the profile of the handle, and his band saw to cut the tenon. Later I finished it off with a dremel sanding drum and some sandpaper/elbow grease.
Then I cut out the pocket for the Trigger Mech and a hole for the trigger.
Now its time to get a spear and Pin it in. Then I can install the handle.
I also finished my flashers over the weekend. They are cheap acrylic mirror epoxied back to back with some strips of vinyl. strung with swivels and mono. about 12 feet long.
The real test will be to see how they flutter in the water, and how many fish they attract.
A roundover with a router will be much easier. You need to pick up the pins anyways, we can do it then.
Thanks Dan, that would be awesome. Will save me quite a bit of time and asymmetry. I was also wondering, what did you use to cut the tenon on your handle?
Edit: Nevermind I found this thread of yours I was looking for: http://spearfishing.world/spea…handle-wood-speargun.html
It looks like you left the wood full thickness for an easy tenon. However this gun isnt so wide so somthing is going to have to be made smaller.
Due to the crappy forecast I worked on my gun and a set of flashers Instead of getting the boat ready for Saturday. :(:)
I got the handle cut of out this insanely hard wood Dan gave me (cant recall the name) and shaped its profile with the dermel. Next step dremel rounding. Then the mortise and tenon, and the pocket for the trigger mech (yikes!).
The flashers are going to be 6 6"x2.5" double sided mirrors with reflective vinyl colored stipes strung between some mono to be about 12 feet total in length. Got some cheap acrylic mirror from a pastic supply place and cut out 12 6"x2.5" pieces and epoxied them back to back. Tomorrow im gonna drill holes, add snap swivels and mono. and apply some fishy color.
Sh@t happens a lot more when people have a false sense of security!
I agree with this most of all in the safety vs no safety debate. To me it adds confusion and uncertainty. Thats probably why my handgun of choice is a Glock. The only time you shouldn't treat a gun like its ready to kill someone is when you have visually confirmed for yourself the gun is unloaded. Everything else is just bs.
Even with new and inexperienced divers, if they aren't trustworthy with a loaded weapon they just shouldn't have it. They are just as likely to have a lapse in applying the safety as they are a lapse in gun handling that results in a trigger pull. There are friends of friends etc I wont dive with because they dont have the sense of urgency and care about speargun danger that I do.
I can see its usefulness as wishinihadgills said. In the same way mechanical safeties on some guns help prevent "glock leg" such as plaxico buress caught a few years ago. A mechanical safety is just a little extra safe if youre sitting on the back of the boat with a gun or passing it off etc. But the way most people perceive a safety I think is more dangerous then no safety.
Ive seen one too many videos of scuba divers treating their loaded spearguns like unloaded ones, or like a walking stick, carrying ticklesticks and nets as well. :crazy:
The same thing happened to Sherri Daye when her Wong's plastic aimright handle sheared off. And that handle was recessed into the stock. Same story as Don told. Gun broke at the handle holes, smashed her in the face, and she had to be airlifted and operated on (she was in mexico at the time I think) I recall the main cause in that instance was the handle and screws were countersunk, weakening the plastic around the screwholes for an early failure. The handle also seemed to be composed of a pretty brittle plastic.
Reminds me of a "domestique" in the world of cycling. Domestique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
