jbrewer----what Dan said is 100% correct perfect intel and advise IMPO (In My Professional Opinion :))
Go to the dentist now
You are young. Take care of your teeth or you'll end up with dentures like me. (At least if my teeth hurt I can just take them out an put em in my pocket <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">)
Good luck my friend
Tin Man----she is beautiful 
Since I do not have any true CF build experience, I am interested in the specs of your LWCG (Lost Wax Concept Gun). With your previous detailed posts about the design and production, I was curious about other factors related to your beautiful LWCG, like:
1. What is the weight of your LWCG ready to hunt, with reel, spear, bands, etc?
2. Did you build your LWCG as a floating gun?
3. Do you have the mold to produce more LWCGs?
4..Where on the gun is the handcuff attachment loop? (I would never take this gun out of the house unless it was cuffed to my wrist
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5. Last, but most important, I would like to be the FIRST to offer to FIELD TEST your beautiful LWCG. The warm and sunny waters of Miami Fl. would be much more suited to field testing your beautiful LWCG than Baton Rouge, La. weather for the next month or so. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Thanks Tin Man for this latest work of spearing art
seaweed---congratulations on some beautiful fish
Great story and pictures also.
I know that if I shot fish that nice from my kayak that I'd feel I'd been challanged <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Sounds like you are liking the camo wetsuit <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Is your Giant Tilapia a freedivingspearfishing fourm record?
Tin Man----WOW, what a beauty
Your craftsmanship and skill never ceases to amaze me
Even the weave of the carbon fiber looks perfectly straight
What is most amazing to me is that you envisioned, designed and built almost every piece of that whole gun.
Congratulations on another exceptional piece of spearing art. :fanwave: :hail1:
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fishingdude----Congratulations on a great hog for a beach dive
sdeisen---I know that water is cold. Great job hanging tough in the cold waters. Glad that you guys are finally having some good seas and viz.
Something that some spearos,( and especially scuba spearos) may not realize is that our freedive suits have to keep us warm for hours and hours in the water AND at the surface. Scuba spearos make one or two dives for an hour each or so, climb back onto the boat and change into nice warm clothes.
Freedivers generally are IN the water for hours and hours, never getting out until the day is over. And while in the water hunting, freedivers spend 90% or so of their time at the surface where the air tempature can be 45F in our area.
I don't like being cold in the water because:
1 Being cold decreases my breathhold time and fatigues me sooner.
2. Being cold for an hour or so is a lot different than being hypothermic for 6 hours.
3. Being cold for an hour or so is a lot different than having an accident and ending up in the water overnight like has happened to a friend of mine:@
Please wear enough GOOD rubber in this weather brothers.
Hope this helps
:hooray: :hooray:
:hail1: Tin Man :hail1:
Tin Man---I have always used wet suit glue with good results.
What I do is to lube the barrel and plug with the wet suit glue, then immediatly push the plug in to the desirede depth and then stand the barrel almost perfectly upright with the new plug nearest the floor. That way any excess wet suit glue flows down and against the new plug.
The next day I do the same procedure to the other end of the barrel.
Hope this helps.
fishingdude---My surgeon will not let me spear or yak until Jan. 15.
I get off work Friday at 8am and you are welcome to use one of my yaks if you are spearing close to me. I can meet you and you can use my yak and just call me when you get back.
Let me know:)
Hope this helps
sdeisen---great story and very nice hog picture
Glad you guys are getting better spearin conditions for a change.
This cold weather is tough to be spearing in. :toast2:
IMO it is much easier to just wear a pair of hosptial gloves and throw them away when you are done or when they get 5200 on them.
I happen to know someone that can get them by the 100pair count 
size large?
Mariner---nice find. Thank you for sharing.
So far I've depleted the digital ocean to level 6. 
I cannot say it better than my brothers before me.
Happy New Year
tinu---you are correct. You don't blend in well <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">
That is a beautiful fat hog of a fish. Congratulations
Nice pictures.
If you can, could you tell the story of how you got that fish?
Thanks
:hail1: Tin Man :hail1:
IMO, Tin Man is one of those people that contributes huge advances to our sport unselfishly.
It is one thing for someone like me to dream up a concept like an enclosed track pipe gun barrel, but only a true highly skilled craftsman can take that dream and create the reality to such perfection.
I do not know if this ETPGB (Enclosed Track Pipe Gun Barrel) is going to work as I envision, but we would never know if Tin Man had not volunteered to produce this ETPGB.
Tin Man did not take on this ETPGB project with any financial interest or as a project that would benefit himself personally. Tin Man spent hours and hours producing this ETPGB because of the challenge in creating something that had never been build (to my knowledge) and with the idea that this ETPGB concept might benefit the spearing community as a whole.
I have wanted an ETPG for over 30yr, and if it were not for Tin Man's generosity and ability, that this dream of an ETPGB would still be a dream
Thank you Tin Man
Dan-- CONGRATULATIONS
That is one nice looking vessel you got there <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Buying a new boat is always a great day. :hooray:
fishingdude----welcome to the BEST freedivingspearfishing forum ever.
It is great to have a spearo of your standards join us here.
The hog in your avitar pales in comparison to the quality person you are.
You will find that THIS forum is much more FRIENDLY and CONSTRUCTIVE oriented that SB.
Here you will not be afraid of being attacked everytime you post something or ask a question. <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
Welcome fishingdude <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">
WOW--I think that I would want to be back to back with another spearo AND wearing a shark suit.
Great video
Congratulations on some BIG tunas.
[quote='Tin Man','http://spearfishing.world/forums/index.php?thread/&postID=22512#post22512'] about things that slow down a spear shaft.
Obviously, there are lots of things that create drag and rob energy from the spear.
I hesitate to write this, but in response to Tin Mans statement, IMO, spear weight is also a very important factor related to spear speed. IMO, a shorter spear weighs less, is faster and stiffer than a spear of the same diameter that is just 1in longer. That s why I personally shoot the shortest spear possible. Though this opens the discussion of spear speed and spear weight as related to kinetic energy. A lighter weight spear will be faster than a heavier spear, but a lighter spear traveling at the SAME speed of a heavier spear will have LESS kinetic energy. If spear speed is the GOAL, then lighter spears is a major factor. I am not saying that thin,short spears are better for real life spearing, I'm saying that shorter, light weight spears are FASTER.
Tin Man---IMO, tapering the bands does make a difference.
1. I cut and grind the ends of my bands as much as is possible. I do not know anyone that trims their band ends as small as mine.
2. IMO, another item that is important to spear speed and flight and accuracy is the shooting line itself. I think that how much the line effects the spear becomes very evident the first time a spearo freeshafts. I know that freedivers do not freeshaft, but I was just mentioning freeshafting to illistrate factors that effect spear flight. This is just my opinion and not to advocate that freedivers or anyone else freeshaft.
WOW, those are some beautiful fish. Congratulations.
Nice report too. Looks like a GREAT day in the water to me
