Posts by 808natural

  • New Arsenal

    Lunker this is the second gun I built with the same handle design. The first gun I been diving with for almost 2 years and haven't noticed the design being a nuisance. Also the curves are facing forward so you would need to pull mono line pass the handle to get it snagged on the handle. Thanks for the concerns.


    Aloha Keoni

  • New Arsenal

    Mahalo for the kind words. The handles are my personal design I'm gonna call it my "signature handle"! That way if you see the design anywhere else you know where they got it from!:D

  • New Arsenal

    Wood Finish gun
    60" rear handle w/delrin enclosed track
    Teak in the middle and a strip of sapele on both sides


    Red Epoxy Camo gun
    55" rear handle w/delrin enclosed track
    made with all sapele








    Id like to say mahalo to Bill(woodguy) for the delrin et inserts. Im Addicted to gun building and already got couple of stocks ready to go! Aloha!

  • Epoxy problem!

    update!


    okay so i waited 10 days before i did anything to my gun. The epoxy got a little harder but i could still manage to get a little indention using my fingernail, not much but enough to irritate me! So i mixed up several batches of epoxies, one with too much hardener, one with too little hardener, one with too much hardener and pigment, and one with too little hardener and pigment. First off too much hardener will cook whatever container the mixture is in and the epoxy will be rock solid in about 25-30 min. Interestingly enough being a little short of hardener than the recommended dosage will still give you a mixture that resulted in a full cure. Now going on to the pigment! I found out that the pigment plays a big role with how your epoxy will cure. If i took the same mixture with less hardener than recommended and added a drop of pigment, my epoxy will not fully cure. Which is probably what happened to my gun. And if i took the mixture with too much hardener and added some pigment, the epoxy will cure even faster. In conclusion i feel the pigment magnifies any altering of the epoxy mixtures. I also found out that west systems epoxy is more user friendly than the other two epoxies! I probably applied 15-20 coats of west systems epoxy and never had a problem with the epoxy curing, and with all 15-20 coats I didnt use any measuring device. The only measuring tool i had was my eyes.:)


    oh yeah! So to fix my gun all i did was add a couple of clear coats over the uncured epoxy and that pretty much fixed it! The gun is rock solid!


    ps. SANDING UNCURED EPOXY IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! Hope this comes in handy to the next person thats experimenting on epoxy camos or any epoxy finish!


    Aloha Keoni

  • Epoxy problem!

    Mahalo Phil! Do u think putting a clear coat of epoxy over the gun will help or will it just compound the situation? Or a couple of coats for that matter?

  • Epoxy problem!

    No I didn't mix the different epoxies but I did add the pigment to the resin before I added the hardener. If I measured both hardener and resin before I added the pigment to the resin then that shouldn't be a problem right?

  • Epoxy problem!

    I used 3 different types: west systems, Neptonics epoxy and a 2 part epoxy with slow hardener from fiber glass Hawaii. I experimented with all 3. I called Fiber Glass Hawaii and told em about my problem and the guy told me it could be too much hardener, which made no sense to me because I thought too much hardener will make it set up quicker. But I'm no expert so that was just my guess. He also told me that it might've been too much pigment. I'm thinking it might've been the pigment because I use measuring cups to mix my epoxy so if my mixture varies its not by much. Also I live in Hawaii so I don't think temperature is a factor in this. Let me know what anyone thinks.


    Mahalo nui Keoni

  • Epoxy problem!

    Howzit going guys!
    I recently built 2 guns and instead of a wood finish I decided to try an epoxy camo finish! These were my very first attempts at doing this so I read up on how some gun builders achieved their epoxy camo finishes! Instead of trying it on one of my newer guns I decided to camo one of my older wood guns! My very first attempt was a success! I managed to turn one of my older "go to" guns into what looks like a brand new gun! So with my new found confidence I figured I give it a shot on one of my newer guns! And if u hadn't guessed it already, yes something went wrong! Just my luck!! I don't know what I did wrong but the epoxy didn't cure properly! After 7 days of drying my gun is not tacky what so ever and it feels relatively solid! But if I were to push my fingertip into the epoxy finish I would leave a little indention! Granted I need to put a little effort into it but still, epoxy should be rock solid! Does anyone have an idea to what I did wrong?


    Thanks in advance! Bruddah Keoni

    Here's a pic of my first attempt!

  • Gopro HD HERO user tips

    I just bought a gopro about two weeks ago and did some diving with it this past weekend. I came home and watched the footage on my tv. Everything looked good!! Then i put my sdhc card into my computer and imported the files onto my computer. Now all the videos that i imported onto my computer has a "glitch". Every second the video has a little pause, its almost like im watching the videos in slow motion. Can anyone tell me what i need to do to fix this problem!!


    mahalo

  • GoPro HD Underwater Blurry Fix

    I was talking to a guy that was selling a gopro HD with a 4gb memory card and he was saying that he could only record 30min of run time. I find that hard to believe! Does anyone know how much record time you could get with an 8gb memory card?