First effort

[scallywag]

Just thought I'd post a couple of pics of my first gun on its second outing last week. She's a 90 made from 4 laminations of beach from an old table top with a center lam of mahogony from a window frame! Fitted with a single 16mm band and dyneema wishbone and a euro spec reef trigger mech from josh at neptonics. The handle frame and other hardware was made by myself from stainless.

 

[theonetruerat]

Bravo On a VERY nice looking first gun. And doubly so for using Reclaimed Wood.. .

 

[foxfish]

Great material resource, nice trigger, the gun should last for a long time.
How did you finish & protect the wood.
How about an 18mm band, how does it balance under water?

 

[scallywag]

The gun is finished with about 7 coats of marine varnish applied with a foam brush with light sanding between coats. I didn't want to overpower the gun because of the slim profile. It was supposed to be about 6mm deeper, however, after a bit of a wander cutting the shaft groove on the router table, rather than scrap the stock another pass through the table saw brought me back to square one,but with a smaller blank. The balance is ok sinks with spear in floats (muzzle up) with spear out. In all honesty it could probably do with a bit of fine tuning but as this gun was always just a "sighter"and I'm happy to leave it as it is. Next project will be an 83cm mahogony/carbon strongback style gun with provision for two 16/18mm bands. First job is to knock up a vacuum pump for bagging the carbon.

 

[Don Paul]

Very nice mate, love the lines in the muzzle area .

Cheers, Don Paul