Posts by tufual

welcome to Speardiver .:)

welcome good to have you aboard

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the handle is just made from a scrap piece of pitch pine . it was only used to fit the trigger the real one will be made of teak and will have all the proper angles .

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I had a spooky dream last night about diving, so I'm cutting off any more funding on Thumper until a have moneys for Terry Maas's Mark FRV vest. Today I decided I have had enough close calls and I owe it to my family.
Terry has the FRV mark 2 at $1100.0 bucks for the first 50, I'm on the list.
I'll keep going on the labor as best I can for now.

Cheers, Don

good priorities , a sports biker once told me the the first thing to buy when getting into motorcycles is the safety gear not the bike .

i agree , i may go with 2 , i like having the option of loading only one band if i know i would be shooting close range or if there is hard structure behind the fish .

thanks Dude George , i made it to take 3 because i was following Riffe specs but i could always just use 2 .:)

good story Hank sounded like a long weird day , happens to the best of us , at least you got to go out .

nice

keep going strong Don and sorry about your Dad.

Thanks Lunker , guys forgot to say that it is 33 1/2 inches from the band grove to the closest shark fin . i plan on using 3 9/16 bands or i may go to 3 5/8 bands depends on what i can get locally , the shaft is 5/16 x 56 '' from notch to tip , followed the 13'' over hang rule , what do you guys think is best 9/16 or 5/8 for general reef hunting . thanks .

yeh guys did some work on the build today . i am about 85% done i have to install all the hardware like the line anchor [ by the way i am going to use a separate line release that uses the shaft to engage it , can you tell me what you call that type of release , so i can find some exaples ] . so far i have mounted the trigger mech , did all the routing [ i love my router ] , mounted a handle mock up out of pitch pine because my supplier ran out of teak , waiting for him to get more , i also welding on the shark fins drilled the hole for the shooting line and cut the notch on the spear . Later in the week i will buy some supplies for the bands , flopper , line release , trigger guard and shooting line .almost done can't wait to get in the water . [ buy the way do you guys know any the sealant for purple heart . ] thanks .[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]6799[/ATTACH][/ATTACH][/ATTACH]

Dude George is right here in Trinidad we never eat those kinds of fish , guys stick to the regular kinds like king , grouper etc . but a lot of times different is better , always looking for new info .

forgot to say [Speargun by Gil] has some nice router videos on youtube that can help . [ can show you a different way of doing things ] sure as hell helped me .

that is a nice router table , i couldn't source one and had to make mine out of 1'' dress ply but having a stable router makes all the difference . good luck , can't wait to see pics of the first cuts .

welcome , good to have you on board:)

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welcome to speardiver:)

my dad never used weights because the water is warm enough not to use wet suits. but i know what you mean , your not exactly thinking straight right before a black out but this was the best safety available at the time and for a lot of spearfishermen a FRV is unreachable due to price and availability [ the reason he would not float even without weights is because he was a bodybuilder at the time and he said he was to dense to float so he would leave a little air in the bcd to be positively buoyant ] but i will admit the FRV is far better but it wasn't available in the 80s.