Rounding off the edges...
We decided to make the stock a bit wider than usual. I've been looking at all the current commercial wooden guns like Totemsub, Abellan, Gimansub and have had the good fortune of owning a Pelagos 100 and have seen a Gimansub Labrax 80 (a fine piece of craftsmanship).
I also looked alot at the other guns that people are making and all the info on the Persiko site (
http://www.arbalegno.com/eng_index.htm).
I liked the wider Abellan guns and fluid shapes of the Giman guns. It seems like many of the commercial guns are not finished to the standard that I would like so that was another reason to make my own. You can see that the shape has come from a machine cut rather than a human hand. While this is good for getting everything true and straight I still think that the aesthetics of sanding out the router end cuts and making it more fluid are worth it.
The stock was made wider because we wanted to make a gun that had good ltracking from side to side. In the shallows where we would be using this gun it isn't so important (in my very inexperienced opinion...) to vertical track quickly but it is important to be able to move sideways fast. The bass that we will be targetting can appear rapidly in the murky winter water and often move alot faster than when you try for them in deeper water on aspetto.
The dummy stock that we used for the initial prinicple was made with a tapered nose. In this respect it is similar to the totem guizzo or pelagos 90 but with the extra width it didn't seem aesthetically pleasing. I don't know about anyone else but I like to use objects that are visually pleasing. So we changed it to have a flared round end nose more like the giman/abellan guns.
