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#151
July 13th, 2008
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Finally for today we can drill the holes for the securing bolts for the trigger. Mark the depth of the recess on the side of the gun along with its longitudinal position. Either place the trigger on top of these marks and mark the holes, manually measure and mark the position of the holes or make a card marking jig. Finally, datum surface down drill the holes using a drill press for accuracy.
Now we must discuss the handle and the final shape of the gun. See you next time spearos 
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#153
July 13th, 2008
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Wow, MY gun looks great so far!
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#154
July 14th, 2008
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The more I study the work done, the more I appreciate the standard & care taken.
Note how the tiny detail of teak running alongside the track shows up as neat pin stripes. What a great project this is - next poll must be based around the handle shape - so if you have any ideas please tell us about them.
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#155
July 14th, 2008
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whats the contest going to be to win my gun?
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#156
July 14th, 2008
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When the gun nears completion we will tell you how you are going to win it!
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#157
July 14th, 2008
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Whoever the lucky bugger is that wins it they are going to have one real smart piece of kit.
Looking good, looking very good. 
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#158
July 14th, 2008
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Why don't we do it in alphabetical order , thats fair ( by the way I'm changing my name to A.Aardvark )
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#159
July 14th, 2008
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well then im changing my name to 0.......yes thats the number zero....uh huh thats right it comes before all the numbers a letters....how does it feel to lose?
 
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#160
July 15th, 2008
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Umm ok , on a slightly more serious note is the handle being made from scratch or using a stock item ? If being made I have X/L hands , shoot R/H and would like a resting notch for my trigger finger so I don't fire it by accident , thanks very much .
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I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide .. "John Masefield"
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#161
July 15th, 2008
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Hi Gits. IF I would do it, I would just machine it straight into the centre laminate. The simpler, the better. Good luck to your masterpiece.
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#162
July 19th, 2008
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Sweeeeeeet....All I can say is it better be neutrally buoyant in FRESH water...Since I'm in Wisconsin and all!
Such a beautiful gun to be used for spearing carp...But hey...They'll be the "classiest" killed carp around!
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#164
August 20th, 2008
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Very interesting. I have a series of questions (which I will do one at a time).
First question The quality of your joinery is very high. My father would have approved - which is very high praise indeed since he was a perfectionist. I normally tend to use a small Lie Nielson block plane for speargun stuff, and if I want to take off more wood, I go to a small power planer. I have been looking at thicknessers in the hardware shops with an acquisitive eye. But after reading the posts I went back to my garage, dug out my father's old Marples bench plane, cleaned it, oiled it and sharpened and set the blade (and fiddled with the mysterious frog setting too). I tried it and it does cut cleanly and take a very measured amount of wood off. The gun I am currently building is a mix of oregon and Huon pine. The Huon pine cuts very cleanly. The aroma of the shaved Huon pine is lovely when cut by a hand plane. The power planer must burn it a little and degrade the aroma. So there is satisfaction in using hand tools. But that is not what I want to ask about. My question is "Do you really need to hand plane the laminates if they have been run over by a thicknesser, or is that complicating the matter unduly?" I have successfully laminated wood that has only been cut on a bench saw. The joins are not perfect hair-lines, but nobody but a professional joiner would notice, and the epoxy fills all gaps. Ric ------------------------------------------------------------ Ric Fallu started spearfishing on the southern shores of Australia in the 1960s, and never really stopped. His other passion is crafting spearguns.
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#165
August 20th, 2008
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WoW this gun is looking deadly already...after its done I doubt you'll need to pull the trigger to kill fish, I think they'll just Ike Jime themselves...Hats off to ya GITS
 Last edited by settingsteel; August 20th, 2008 at 18:02.
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