My first gun, a 72cm euro I made for catching bass in rubbish visibility.
started by trueing up the timber with a planer thicknesser, then I roughed out the shape with a router and table. I shaped it with carving chisels and a rasp, then scraped and sanded it - no photos of this i'm afraid, red haze came down!
the muzzle is open and the line retains it. The pegs that hold it are made of stainless bicycle spokes. It's pretty obvious how the bands sit, and it does seem to work - their alignment is pretty much spot on, although I think I cut the track a little deep and I might have to take 1mm or so off the top to stop the wishbone lifting the spear slightly off the track, which I think might be an issue.
The handle is just socketed into the stock (Which was a bloody headache, I ended up fixing it to the tool holder of the lathe and the drill in the chuck!)
Because the socket is quite short, I have left as much meat as possible around that area to preserve strength, which is pretty ugly. I have made a piece of aluminum that extends the handle's socket-y bit, and should let me make the transition a bit smoother when I get round to it.
And it caught me my first bass when I took it out last night
It is rigged with one 16mm Buechat band with a dyneema wishbone, two wraps of cressi multi and a cressi s/s spear. sinks with spear, just about floats without.
should be the first of many
started by trueing up the timber with a planer thicknesser, then I roughed out the shape with a router and table. I shaped it with carving chisels and a rasp, then scraped and sanded it - no photos of this i'm afraid, red haze came down!
the muzzle is open and the line retains it. The pegs that hold it are made of stainless bicycle spokes. It's pretty obvious how the bands sit, and it does seem to work - their alignment is pretty much spot on, although I think I cut the track a little deep and I might have to take 1mm or so off the top to stop the wishbone lifting the spear slightly off the track, which I think might be an issue.
The handle is just socketed into the stock (Which was a bloody headache, I ended up fixing it to the tool holder of the lathe and the drill in the chuck!)
Because the socket is quite short, I have left as much meat as possible around that area to preserve strength, which is pretty ugly. I have made a piece of aluminum that extends the handle's socket-y bit, and should let me make the transition a bit smoother when I get round to it.
And it caught me my first bass when I took it out last night
It is rigged with one 16mm Buechat band with a dyneema wishbone, two wraps of cressi multi and a cressi s/s spear. sinks with spear, just about floats without.
should be the first of many
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