Posts by tufual

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    hey guys , i tested the gun today with the shorter bands and i would say the 2 bands are enough but i am going to leave the third band in the gun just for the hell of it . on some separate news i just came back for the hospital . i was finished testing the gun and went back out to practice snorkeling . i then tried to dive but i could not because i was not wearing weights , so i tried using my hands to cup the water to pull my self down . when i put all my strength into it i dislocated my right shoulder , which hurt like hell . thankfully i was close to the shore was able to get out . i had to endure the pain for about 1 hr to get to the hospital . the bone spec dr popped it back into place while i was on some awesome pain killers so i don't remember him doing it . i woke up with everyone laughing because while i was high i was saying some weird stuff . the doctor said it was a combination of fatigue and weak muscles . he said that i would be fine but in two weeks i have to do some physical therapy to strengthen the muscles so it would not happen again . he did say though that it is a common problem with new swimmers . i did not think that my my injury from learning spearfishing would be some snorkeling . <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

  • MAKO Spearguns - Poor quality made in China

    but Dan even tough i have never held a mako i have to say that people are learning . yesterday when i was testing my build i met a guy surf fishing and he told me that he and his friends are trying to get into spearfishing . they said that they were upset with the absolute crap that was ''affordable'' . when my dad and i were looking at buying the speargun [ before the build ] we did see some guns that looked like mako and the store owner said they were made in Italy and France [ absolute lies ] . they were so poorly built i would not load it once .there is a real gap in the market in terms of quality [ absolute crap then Riffe] but believe it or not the prices on the crap are around 75% that of a riffe . so the guys i spoke to said they were sort of stuck having to wait and save for a riffe , but i would admit that if i lived in the US i would buy something like your Speardiver Teak because even if you buy a shorter gun to learn on , that gun should be kept as a reef gun even after you graduate to blue water hunting . Dan keep on doing what your doing ., if people don't speak up about the lack of quality in the market things will never progress .. :thumbup:

  • New iki Jimi project

    by the way Dan that post was funny as hell . <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

  • New iki Jimi project

    i would be concerned about swimming out with too much gear , especially pointy gear . my brother is a saturation diver in the oil industry and the only injury he has ever gotten was from his own knife . Lunker i love that you are innovating , with out guys like you this sport would never progress but one thing to think about is that if your tangled up below the water and low on oxygen you may , out of habit reach for your spike instead of your knife . you don't want to have to think too much in those situations .:)

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    sorry i measured it , i cut 4 1/4 inches of each band . so each band is about 24 3/4 inches long which is shorter than the 27 '' bands on the riffe #3 which is what i was using as a guide but the reason i was following riffe's model is because cutting that 4 '' off makes it feel like double the pulling force to load it , which is little hard but i prefer the added power . i can physically load an even shorter band but i want to test it first .:)

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    yeah i tested it more today and the spear is going far but it didn't have the punch i wanted so i shortened each band by about 3 1/2 inches because it was shooting the spear a little lazy . have to test it a little more [ fine tuning ] .:)

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    cool because a diveshop told me 3 5/8 bands are way over kill for rock spearfishing but in Trinidad a lot of the dive shop owners are old heads who like to KILL a fish and actually don't really like the thin shafts on euro guns . they told me that in Trinidad it was common for all spearfishers guns to have at least 3 5/8 bands cut short and the shafts were at least 5/16 . in the old days a lot of guys had 8 3/4 bands on 1/2 shafts to spear sharks . my father actually wanted me to put 3 3/4 bands on my speargun but the dive shop was out of stock .

  • New iki Jimi project

    i have used 3m 5200 to make engine mounts and it is tuff stuff , and Don there is a fast cure version that i thing cures in 2 days or so , it is also very flexible so it should not make the suit stiff but i do not know if it comes in any colour besides white .

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    20 feet from the end of the muzzle to the rear end of the spear shaft , there is an additional 4 feet from the shaft , last week i also went to an empty piece of beach and fired it in the air with the bungee unhooked but the shooting line still attached to just the spear and it went about 100 feet away and when it landed the tip went 2 1/2 feet into the sand . by the way is 20 feet good ? it is a 5/16 shaft and i also cut the bands to the limit of my strength .

  • Pitch pine speargun build

    i also switched back to 2 line wraps which is a little shorter than the range but far more manageable than the 3 wraps i was using to test it , i also prefer the nylon braided cord to mono , it is easier to manage .