Posts by Don Paul

  • Impaler Spearguns feedback

    I just looked at the 666 on line, I would shoot some one's Hybrid before you invest 900 clams.


    Any tube or wood barrel with 3- 5/8s bands wrapped on the out side is not going to be a ''fast tracker''.
    Craig's list here in Cali and FleeBay always have somebody's hybird dream gun for sale, a lot have only missed fish a few times before their ''expert'' owners move on to something else that ''shoots like a laser''.^^


    Now if you like windsurfers and wood boats go for the Hybird, is has Carbon fiber and pretty wood.;)


    Cheers, Don

  • Custom Euro Gun Builders

    I am bumping this thread for members that have come aboard in the last year and not know it exists.
    These works can inspire different styles, concepts, and discussions and in gun building.


    Cheers, Don

  • I lost my roller gun by Hammer Guns.

    Sorry Chuck. Maybe sharks munch the wounded AJ and the shaft stays on the bottom, the gun floats up to
    70-60feet. That is kind of deep for a trolling fishermen to snag.


    I've lost one hand built gun, it really sucks, but your alive and breathing. Some guys don't know when to let go and keep swimming andfighting the fish, then black out.


    Cheers, Don

  • South Florida Bluewater Build.

    I like Josh, but I would never make a vid showing the cocking of a gun out of water.

    I trim them without the bands, if I use metal wishbones I cable tie them on top of the barrel back where they live cocked.


    If your doing it from a dock, tie a string to the gun so you don't have to dive under the dock to the muck to find it. You can trim it with bare teak, just fresh water rinse it and wash down with acetone before you top coat it.


    You can mirco trim it later after the loaded bands and epoxy, when the bands are cocked the air hole inside the rubber necks down and any positive buoyancy is distributed evenly along the top of the barrel.


    Cheers, Don

  • South Florida Bluewater Build.

    Quote from Reefchief

    It protrudes out plenty and has a nice curve to it when its down. It will hold the line well. The only possible issue is how it goes up flush into the gun. A small finger tip sized recess should make that impossible though.


    I just went on FreediveStore,com and looked at the mech. Could you drill a small hole in the top of the release
    slot wood and install a small SS coil spring just long enough to hold the hook slightly out from the wood?
    Sorry about your 205, if you lived closer I would gift you some.
    Cheers, Don

  • South Florida Bluewater Build.

    Hard to see but I angle the band slot upward at the rear, and chamfer the slot at the top rear edge.
    As the band are cocked they slide up closer tow the axis of the shaft. I add a Ti plate to ad strength to the thin area. I have had 3-5/8s hot bands live in this slot. when I store the gun I pull the bands thru the hole to the wishbones to un-stress the rubber.
    The band slot is 3/4'' x 1-1/2'' as I used to run 2- 3/4'' bands in one configuration.
    Sorry that first imaged is angled making the wood above the slot look thick, the top is only 1/4'' to the shaft.
    Cheers. Don

  • Interesting and funny stuff

    Quote from Dan

    They can't see anything past the first post. Still it's not worth the bandwidth. I'm going to remove the pics from the first post, and change the thread title so it doesn't attract attention.


    I went to the first post to save that hot freckled chick and re-post her, but my true love is gone forever.;)


    Cheers, Don

  • Slim Line Gun

    Great interview, love the wood trigger guard on the featured Slim line gun. I also very much like the texture of the carving with consideration of the grain. Very organic and flowing.
    Bravo.


    Cheers, Don

  • Mola Mola in NY short vid

    If this was WeirdBored, that Mola would be laying shafted on the beach within a thread titled, ''Can I eat this'' ?
    ''It bent my Fako shaft and lined my reel.....Oh wait, I mean drag line'':rolleyes:


    Cheers, Don

  • Boat style floats/buoy

    Quote from grossetti

    Don, thanks for the picture, so you can sit on them, nice to know. Would you mind writing up a small review?


    Cheers,
    Gabriel


    Gabriel, sorry to mislead you. I just downloaded that image to give you a idea of how large they can get.


    I have only used hard floats, similar to a banks board when I shore dove with 2 guns, flash light and mesh fish bag bungie'd to the deck. In Tahiti, the French and the Comp guys had hard float/bins that looked like a kick board as sharks are ever present.


    Cheers, Don