Posts by Don Paul

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    Thanks Joe, it's just fun to see what is going on outside the world of sanded ebay timber blanks.Many fitted with mandatory enclosed tracks and unsafe surface mounted screw on handles, on guns that all shoot like lasers at 25' .:rolleyes:


    Cheers, Don

  • Lion fish derby,TORNEO PEZ LEON

    Quote from Roberto Reyes


    The real problem at first was not leting them slide the shaft
    and hit your hands, since we were not used to the venenous spines.
    Nowdays, I dont even remember they can inflict pain, this will change
    quikly on the first sting, am sure of it.



    I watched a 110 pound girl go into convulsions after getting hit my three spines.
    My friend who was 6'9'' got hit by two spines and I go him to hot tap water very soon, but he said it felt like get your hand slammed by a two by four.


    terois (eg, lionfish, zebrafish, turkey fish, butterfly cod): In one series of 101 described cases of captive lionfish (genus Pterois) envenomations in the United States, 92% of patients experienced local pain, 60% experienced edema, and 13% experienced systemic symptoms. There were no fatalities. Wounds were graded with the use of a grading system, and 95% of the wounds were found to be grade I (erythema), 4% were found to be grade II (vesicle formation), and 1% were found to be grade III (tissue necrosis). Pain was relieved with hot-water immersion therapy in 97% of the patients, and 0% of the patients required antivenom administration. One patient required intravenous antibiotics, one hypotensive patient responded well to intravenous fluids, and 13% of patients had variable, less severe, systemic symptoms.


    Judging from this and other reports in the United States, the vast majority of lionfish stings appear to result in uncomplicated wounds with severe local pain that is responsive to immersion therapy. While reports of fatalities exist, detailed documentation is sparse and deaths must be very rare.


    Cheers, Don

  • Looking for some advise

    Roger that I'll PM you the latest info I have before you leave. There are also some good spots close to Avalon you can hit from shore or rental kayak, but you should have a float because of possible boat and PWC traffic.
    What gun do you have, reef fish or Yellowtail and bonita?


    Cheers, Don

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    And one of Joe's favorites I believe.;)^^ One from the master.... Dapiran's creation: the Saber. It features two vertical tension pulleys in the muzzle, that's the newer part patented by Giorgio dapiran. The rest is the typical Dapiran's speargun (re. Jedi series), designed with ballistics and ergonomy in mind more than aesthetics and elegance.

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  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    This one is for Harry, the Abellansub Designed by spanish Victor Abellan, and very skillfully manufactured by the expert italian weapon craftsman Gabriele Cristofolini, these guns have a aggressive appearance with the undefinable essence of beauty and grace.
    They're made in Brescia, north of Italy, in the world's most ancient weaponry district (Beretta, Franchi, Perazzi, Uberti, Bernardelli and countless other firearms companies are located in the same few square kilometers where Abellansub spearguns lab as well.

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    Sardinia is home to Arbaleteinlegno which means "wooden spearguns"=arbalete in legno).


    They have a very good reputation, and their wooden also reels look very nice . Check out the wooded line release clip but they also make conventional line releases. I have a hand made wood and aluminum reel
    on one of my guns. I can tell you they take a long time to fabricate.

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  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    The upside down trigger is now adopted by another small but brilliant manufacturer, MareMania, near Milan. They started as a diveshop, and then commercially developed their own products.
    Noticeable indeed is their Silhouette speargun. Looks like the C4 Urukay, but made of wood and with significant differences: the upsidedown trigger, the water ballast strucutre, the built in reel. It's really a particular speargun.

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    This was posted by my friend Spaghetti on another forum.


    Giman Sub: it started 5 or 6 years ago as a small lab, run by father and son, in a small town of southern Italy.
    Slowly they built a reputation, and then made a further step with advertisement campaigns, sponsoring competitive divers et cetera.
    But still it's a small company of father and son handcrafting spearguns such as these:

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    I would like to dedicate this thread to the European custom guns and the artist's that built them.
    Many of the company's are gone, weakend by a tough economy and the high costs of building very limited production products.



    Reserved for pictures..

  • Hatch guns?

    Quote from greekdiver

    So you do know something about Victor. ;) I think this is his 10th versionl for this gun over the years. He uses high speed cameras and does a ton of test with different shafts diameters and lengths. Im sure there will a different model next year or 2.


    He's one of the smartest gun builders in Europe, if this was a thread called Custom Euro gun builders I would
    play.^^ Hatch is american pie.
    Cheers, Don