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los macks q e podido sacar honestamente han sido asi miro sin pensar y le tire...gracias por compartir su experiencia...spearcuba good thread....

esos cabr&*& macks se tiran matrix style de vez en cuando haha!!! me esquivan la varilla totalmente q me quedo wtf!!

Te voy a dar un consejo que con los panas que yo pesco nos pasamos jodiendo con lo mismo mientras menos apuntes y pierdas el tiempo en apuntar para darle un buen tiro mejor............solo dispara y te acosdaras de mi

Wow! Beautiful work. Your friends are lucky guys.

Para la proxima ves trata de nadar lo mas rapido que puedas detras de ella pero tratando de haser el menos ruido pocible y trata de disparar al centro de la sierra que con un poco de suerte le das en la espina y adios luz que te apagaste sera todo para ella

Wow, Those muzzles look great. I'm just starting to build guns myself. How did you shape your muzzles like that? Is the gun on the bottom semi-enclosed? I can't tell.. Keep us posted on your build. Great work so far!

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I may be drifting off topic a bit, because I am not sure how set you are on epoxy or lacquer.

But if your goal is simply to improve the looks of your gun, and it already has an oiled finish, then look into Wood Guy's posts on his "mop sander". His is a little more involved, but for a few bucks, you can built a quickie verison that mounts in a drill press. High speed, and a fine (like 240 or 320 grit) will leave an unbelievably smooth surface. With a little teak oil, Wood Guy's stocks look like fine furniture.

Well I dont have the space to build one of those lol. But the finish on it right now is totally fine. I just saw a lot of guns at Blue Wild that were nice and shiny lol!

After hearing what you guys have to say about the epoxy and lacquer, i'm not sure that it would be a good idea for me to do it myself. Especially since I could mess up the way the gun shoots in the recessed track...

i have seen those guns on e-bay more cheap....like 150 $.....

I may be drifting off topic a bit, because I am not sure how set you are on epoxy or lacquer.

But if your goal is simply to improve the looks of your gun, and it already has an oiled finish, then look into Wood Guy's posts on his "mop sander". His is a little more involved, but for a few bucks, you can built a quickie verison that mounts in a drill press. High speed, and a fine (like 240 or 320 grit) will leave an unbelievably smooth surface. With a little teak oil, Wood Guy's stocks look like fine furniture.

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if the instructions are followed and the hand of the applier is good.

Cheers, Don

Lol thats my problem!!! I have never worked with epoxy before. While I'm all for trying new things, my new baby is NOT going to be my first time with epoxy lol!

I might just stick with the teak oil method. how often do you guys with wood guns oil them?

thank you for sharing........those are great fish....

Huge thanks to Rafe, Rok, Vinny, Will, J. and Marcel. Please email me your contact information at cmorllc@cox.net - Bill's wife Cindy wants to contact each of you to express her gratitude. I can't thank you enough. You guys dropped everything, worked many hours getting gear ready and then made a 120 mile boat run and were on-scene within hours of my calling. Having you guys down there with me helped me greatly in getting through it. Everyone talking through the plan and then executing it in zero vis was amazing. I've been told that very few recoveries are made at that depth with no visibility. I know who I want in the fox hole with me if we ever have to go to battle.

As bad as running in with Bill's remains was, I can't imagine what facing his family would have been like if we hadn't been able to find him.

As requested by his family, I will put together and post an account of what happened.

At this time, his family has asked I gather any and all pictures of Bill. If you have pictures, please email them to me at cmorllc@cox.net - I need to put them together for them over the next day or two so that they can have them for the services.

Thanks to everyone who has called, sent texts, pm'ed, posted, etc. I don't have the right words, but I can say that it has helped.

Bill's friend,

Chad

Quote from Don Paul

Choosing a prep method and finish depends on several things:
1. wood or metal ?
2. Cost ?
3. How much time do you want commit to? ( few realize a flat hi gloss UV resistant mulit coat finish could take 20hrs or more)
4.Does the gun have a finish now, what material was used ?
5.If a wood gun, has oil ever been used?
I'll check back later after work.
Cheers, Don

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wood.
not sure how much i'm willing to commit, but if I do it, i want it done right. Not sure what the price range for this kind of stuff is though.
There is no finish on it I dont think. Its a standard teak andre 120 euro
No oil from me, probably from Andre though.

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Jeff, I think that has very little impact, the line will need to turn 90 either at the entrance to the metal or once inside the metal piece, and in both cases the bulk of the force will be 90degrees against the metal...that is where the deburring is key.

From a chaffing perspective, yes. But the "line of pull" is concentric with the centerline of the bands in one case (Post 16), and slightly off center in another (Dan's). I agree that it's probably an academic difference. Just curious.

Do you suppose it makes any difference if the wishbone line enters sideways (like Dan's inserts), or from the end (like the pic in Post 16) ?

So after walking around to the different booths at blue wild and seein the sick looking wood guns, I been starting to think about lacquering my gun. Not sure what to do lol, but I got a few tips from Andrew at Nautilus: 90grit sandpaper all around, paint, and dry. I was wondering if anyone has tried this yet and if there are any tips that you can give me, cuz I dont want to mess this up lol!

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Mazel Tov Ben...use it for years in good health

well good health for you, not the fishies

saturday?
I am gonna try to get Henry to go out on Friday morning too

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yea man... let me know i'm def down for whatever. And if Henry has space on his boat, i'd be down for that too. I just wanna get this gun wet and kill some fish!

Greekdiver- the MSRP on this gun is $600

welcome bro..looking forward to see pics and stories from your waters...:)

welcome bro....:)

very nice lookin gun...enjoy it....dude every time i see your pic im like "man thats a big mother f*ckin hog fish" haha...just make me want to go diving......those guns just look in another level for spearfishing let me know if work great...fish r gonna die!