Posts by Don Paul

He's up near PV I think.;)
Cheers, Don

Quote from red tide

All of us Gun Mavens and no quick fix:angry5:

Let the fish swim farther way, if the bands bowtie at the muzzel after the tail of the shaft leaves
the last loop of line can hitch around it as it is a timing thing. There a few Utube images of shots out there.
I'll look to night after work. My band go straight up after the shot and out of the way.
Cheers, Don

Thanks Mike cool images, I have one more Champ LL game before I try the vest.
Cheers, Don

Thanks for the report Fuzz, I have a wt vest to trial this week end. It is very well built as well.
Nice stringer buddy.
Cheers, Don

Thanks my kid Champ Little L. baseball may wed by Wed if they don't win. Can't wait to dive .
Cheers, Don

Quote from virgili

my third stay there
filming and... spearfishing!
got only to day the authorization to head on with guns on the boat.
but weather is becoming pretty windy again and not sure these fish will stay so close to the coast and on a only 150 feet depth spot...
mother nature is as usually master of the big game!

Good luck buddy, stay as safe as you can.
Cheers, Don Paul

Quote from hau

red tide--I too have had this problem of shooting line/band fouling.
I have had foulings with mono, with QPowerline AND dynema.
I do not know the solution, but I do offer a suggestion==
1. Video the shooting line/ band fouling.
2. Then play the video back in slow motion frame by frame.

(ps-starting next month I'll be filming every shot I take, if no one else films the problem sooner)

Hope this helps

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I studied this for a long time on my gun, I need to go to meeting today and tonight. My stuff is on super 8 film that I don't have the rights to. But I will share the info I learned only from my personal gun.
Please give me a few days.
Cheers,Don

Thanks for the great footage, those are some brutes mate, love your big Tuna images.
Merci, Don Paul

Welcome Charlie, Great introduction. I agree we have a cool bunch of great guys here.
Cheers, Don Paul

Quote from Dan

I don't see the necessity of such a long taper, you lose 2" of band material the way he does it, if you were to make a wishbone equally short. Although it's been said that it makes the band more hydrodynamic.

Do not put aceite (oil) inside the bands.

The band tying twine I recommended already comes waxed.

The way he's tying the constrictor is called tying in the blight.

I'm not a fan of metal wishbones (quitadedos), but at least that one is not sharp.

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I was taught this way by in New Caledonia in 1984 by my close friend JC Bourdelon. We used heavy mil spec waxed nylon. I still do my bands this way. I use a drop of Monoi oil on on the insert then wipe it off. It keeps the bands from sticking to the insert.

I use two Iron wood dowels to pull the loops tight, I have never had a wish bone pull out or leak water inside.
I use long tapers as there is less cavitation behind the wishbone. Some Italians are very on it with power band
efficiency.......more later. Here is one of many of my personal test targets.

Quote from lopezoscar

hey whats up everyone... i was talking with some buddies and we came across a topic of camo paint and how ppl where camo wet suites. then i proposed a thought of painting my speargun. maybe like a blue urban camo style... colors i was thinking was blue, gray, white and black....
i wanted to know if anyone has done this to any of theirs guns. i have an AB Biller and its wood so i would think it would be easy... all thoughts welcome

oscar

Heres one...but it's a lot of work my way.;) http://spearfishing.world/spea…omer-airbalete-110-a.html
Cheers Don Paul

Quote from greekdiver

Adrian,

My Denton sits at 2.5 inches if that helps any. But the trigger itself (much wider) is different than any gun i have seen before.

Mine too Harry, fits like a glove. My sear releases with a 1/4 '' pull on Tiputa.
Cheers, Don

Quote from Dan

How would you do camo tape on a biller? Isn't it going to cover the track?

I haven't seen one in 20 years, I guess I need to search the net.
Cheers, Don

Quote from LunkerBuster

the only thing that makes me hesitate to do so is that I would hate to drop it to mark a bug hole and then not be able to see it all camo-ed out <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">

Don Paul just did a masterful camo/resurfacing job on his bubble gun. worth looking at his techinique to see how a Don does it

Thanks, but good camo tape is way easier on a Biller.
Cheers, Don

Welcome Hut... good to see more cali guys here, That is a sweet eating size for the sheeps.
Cheers, Don Paul

Quote from Pucho

Nice gun, like a lot the shark, abalone?

Thank you.Yes from New Zealand, The body is Titanium with abalone over lay. It took me 20 hrs to shape before I inlaid it to the gun. One must wear a very good respirator while grinding abalone.
Cheers, Don

For images
Thanks Don

Details later....
Thanks Don

Quote from monster slayer

Tiputa as in French Poly? Nice gun

Yes,Tuamotu islands, French Poly.
Thanks guys,this is from a earlier post....more detail later.
#5 Tiputa, a 58'' laminated mahogany barrel, maple,birch and white oak handle keyed to barrel,hand milled 17/4 sear.
6061T6 gold reels with 500# kevlar.muzzle Ti inner plate and open muzzle line hook.When I built this gun in
1984 to replace a lost gun, it had a enclosed track I later milled off after pool tests,has inlay.

Gun has a poured Teflon and graphite deep rail, made with West Systems epoxy.
Can be set up to shoot 9/32 to 3/8 shafts with 2 to 3 5/8 bands. Has 3 different
weight hand fabricated 6061 T6 reel spools to change mass, cut from billet. The lightest one has mahogany and epoxy end plates. I'll go into detail at the end of the project.
Cheers, Don Paul
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Beautiful gun Adrian...very nice what a cool chick you have.
Cheers, Don