Posts by tufual

i actually love purple heart , growing up in Trinidad , purple heart is known for being one of the hardest and most beautiful woods around . i just bought a 10ft x 2x4 piece of solid purple heart that i am going to use for my first real gun after i am done with the pitch pine tester . i will post a pic of it on that thread . but really nice work on yours , great vid .

even tough those gun are still functioning tools they venture into the realm of art . beautiful work .

I uploaded the pic of my gear to show guest that you don't have to spend $1000 US to get started in spearfishing. you can buy relatively cheap gear when now starting , besides you're not going to dive 100 feet [safely] your first time out . therefore high end items like carbon fins may not be necessary at this stage . The mask , snorkel and fins all came up to $800 TT dollars = $123 US , plus i bought these things in a full on dive shop , they are cheaper online .

nice pic . big hog

cool vid . what kind of wood is that speargun made of ?

there is a lot of life in those waters

i like the primeval side of spearfishing , starting out with no fish [ no bait ] one breath and ending up with fish hopefully . plus i like the idea of catching fish with a 10 year old piece of 2x4 pine that was laying in the garage covered in old cement .

nice water

just showing the starter gear i bought , medium length fins [ good price plus better suited to my needs ] simple comfortable j type snorkel and high visibility mask . they are all SCUBA MAX brand . The reason i bought medium length fins were because the depth i would be swimming in is around 12-20 feet [ now starting] and the mask is not a low volume mask because of shallow depth and i prefer the larger viewing angle it provides for safety reasons , taking into mind i am inexperienced .

just as a side note even tough that pic doesn't look like much due to the fact that i don't have all of the necessary tools , that took about 2 hours of hard core sanding .

i am a new to spearfishing as well but from what my father told me , alge has a part to play . alge population can grow due to nutrients from near by fresh water rivers , industrial run off . the only thing i can think of for the difference between morning and afternoon is the greater winds druing the afternoon due to the sun's heat , stirring up the water.

looked at a riffe euro last week taught it was too expensive here in Trinidad and decided to build a speargun , which will be the first speargun i ever own . i am only going off the info i got from this forum and from speaking to local dive shops . just ordered some parts from Neptonics , but in the mean while i am practicing on a 2x4 of pitch pine . going to try and upload some pics .

hello every one just registered to forum . I am a new comer to spear fishing , born and live in Trinidad . I have always had an interest in spearfishing because even tough i have only ever surf fished i grew up with my father speaking about spearfishing . which he did around the 1980s until my sister was born in the 90s , wife and kids took up his time so he stopped . however i am now 22 and my father and i are now getting into spearfishing . i have been reading alot on SPEARDIVER as a guest and chose to join . My father was very much shocked when we went to the local dive shops last week [ to look at gear ] and found that the 1980s prices that he remembered are no longer true . So thanks to your form i learnt alot about speargun builds and decided to build my first ever speargun . i just ordered some parts from Neptonic and would be posting my build soon . i look forward to your responses . thank you .