Posts by Don Paul

  • Diving for Pismo Clams

    Quote from Hookinfish

    Alright Don! I am so glad they are doing well :) Just got back from my trip and am exhausted. Your bungee line worked great!!! Stoked to see the seedlings.


    Glad you liked it, I wish you could have tried my SpearDiver C-90 carbons, next time.


    Now in the interest of gardening....


    Test 1
    The seeds in the green pot were looked over by Zeus and his chick, they are growing fast.^^


    Test2
    The seeds in the second brown pot, I sang La Traviata to.... clearly they are just stressed my the birds.;)



    Cheers, Don

  • Switched to a 6.5 mm shaft

    In the video the host says pool testing may be needing to solve the shaft performance, but here is what I would do. Learn what the best speros (Tahitians, Aussies, South Africans.....ext) on the planet use and their methods. Emulate....safer then spearing the next door neighbor's kid's or dog with a launched spear shaft.:@


    Cheers, Don

  • Switched to a 6.5 mm shaft

    Tell those Aussies in S.W. blue water that their skinny, springy euro shafts don't work on big fish.
    The whole early Riffe gun concept was based on 1/4'' shafts that the Aussies were using when Jay moved there for a while. The Aussies copied what the Tahitians were doing when they went there on holiday or competed against them at World Meets. Tahitian flopper.....long overhang.... all very old news.
    Just don't use them to shoot fish @ 20 feet towing 400# mono and sporting blunt points.


    Cheers, Don


    Flexing on impact.....sure on a blunt tip, or braking a spine. What do ya think a wood arrow did when the first indigenous hunter dropped a elk in the snow?

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Quote from Bamz

    Another find at Minney's? I need to get back there, Ernie has teak lumber from time to time....


    I would never have had boats with out Minney's, I'm not a sailor, but I have seen new 30k race sails sell for $350.00. He has been my friend for 30 years.


    Cheers, Don

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Quote from tufual

    Nice work Don , but i will say when i make a ''Temporary '' bracket for something , it will probably be there for a few years <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    That is the sigh of a good part....that is not over engineered.;):toast:


    Cheers, Don

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    Quote from tufual

    Quick question , was it welded , i can't see any seams , which is also a complement


    No it is a old steering unit bracket I reformed and drilled to do the job,then hit with zink chromate and epoxie. Thumper is a junkyard dog...I mean rabbit.


    The TriLens is also salvage that cost me 25 bucks instead of $314.00:thumbup: I have been looking for one for 2 months but it was worth the wait on a low buck build.


    Cheers, Don

  • The Adventures of Thumper

    I made a bracket to mount the TriLens radar reflector in a temporary location on top of the motor.
    Later when the console bimni/solar panel is installed I may move it, but I'll sea trial the boat with it here.


    Luke I am your father...  <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    Cheers, Don

  • New Build Newbie

    [quote='blacqfins','http://spearfishing.world/forums/index.php?thread/&postID=85521#post85521']I have another Q?? about hard ash, how will is hold up as a speargun?.. reasons I wanted to use it because of the color of the would.... that way I'll be able to dye it a blue/green color and of course completely seal it with epoxy.. it's not as hard a teak or padauk... bit it is hard ash.





    Ive used white ash for structural wood in old airplanes and boats, but I have never made a gun from it. They do use it for snowshoe frames after steaming and bending the wood. It is in the olive wood family


    Cheers, Don

  • T Bar speargun St. Lawrence spearfishing

    [quote='LunkerBuster','http://spearfishing.world/forums/index.php?thread/&postID=85516#post85516']That guy also made one that shoots pipe.


    Me too in the early 80's;)..... tested a 1/4 scale one in the pool, my friend ( John Warren) thought I was nuts.
    I'd be ranting on the phone about it and the speed of the tube and soon I would hear..."Don I gotta Go''.:S


    My first prototype model shot plastic straws completely through raw potatoes @ 3', power was rubber from euro race bike tubes.
    I never killed a fish with it though.
    He's got me beat on the I beam....never did that. I did do a 3'' 3/8 shaft in a 72'' inch barrel with 4 bands....very spooky to cock ...
    Somewhere I have test target mylar from 20'' shots.
    Cheers, Don

  • Penetrator Fins

    Quote from fuzz

    :@



    Do not need... but I gotta get a pair of those. <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">


    But up where you dive length matters....:shark4::shark4: ;)



    Cheers, Don

  • Spear Diver dive watch

    I tried to read to the end but stopped @ the French forum negative comments.;)
    Helson has some great looking watches they've cloned on the outside, I am a purest...that's where the issue is.


    Cheers, Don