[Scotian]

I had never heard of a Hawaiian Sling before (still really new to this) and I read through a couple of the other posts that have been made on the subject. I noticed a common trend running through them, and that was the lack of suitable materials to make a spear out of. Now, I'm no professional diver, but I do know a bit about scrap metal because I used to blacksmith, and I was always on the hunt for junk I could turn into treasure.

My favourite thing to use as round-stock were these long metal rods with a weird 90 degree bend at the end of them. They were spring steel, and I would guess they were just a tad bigger than 1/4, or maybe 1/4 inch right on the money. I got them from a guy who said he got them out of the trunks of cars. That's all I know.

Maybe there's someone out there who knows more about what they are? I'm sure they would make excellent spears. They were pretty long and very bendy, always snapping back to straight. All you'd have to do is cut the bend off the end of them.