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Ghost Gun

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settingsteel

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Just finished a build from some pretty rad material (as of yet not commercially available)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91estEDdX-A]YouTube - Speargun....Invisible[/ame]

For those of you into exotic materials dip into this site Material ConneXion some cutting edge stuff
 
looks cool - I think!

Very interesting mate please tell us more?
 
WOW eighty views 2 comments....guess no one saw itrofl...its a 100cm enclosed track euro Fox, with a carbon fiber handle...the material is (according to the inventor from W.Germany) soon to be top secret, amazing properties. It was originally sent to me to design a patio furniture line, starting with a chaise...we had some"scraps leftover" and it found a new life as an invisible speargun. I'll try to get some pix up later, although no one may say them.
 
surely (I won't call you that again) you can find clear silicon bands too? Maybe from E. Germany? And a glass shaft!

 
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If you can post a picture of the gun that would be great....
 
Tone, may I copy some pics of your guns and post them in the mighty "Indie speargun companies" thread? You deserve a spotlight among the masters that's fo-sho!
I love the carbon handle on your Ghost. Is it handmade by Tone?
 
Super idea but a little redundant until you can get an invisible cape for the diver
 
That's really cool, whats the material, some sort of transparent ceramic?

If it's enclosed track it can't just be a stock tube, and it looks to have a formed muzzle, so how do you machine it yet retaining transparency? Or is it cast?

More pics, more info!!!!
 
The Italian Secret Service tossed me these ones (see pics below, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY!!!. It's enclosed track with carbon fiber handle. But don't tell anyone: it's CLASSIFIED info :mute).
 

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Interesting, a sort of rigid flourocarbon maybe? As it's not that clear above water, suggesting it's the same refractive index as water so seems see through once submerged?

I won't tell anyone Spago.
 
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Interesting, a sort of rigid flourocarbon maybe? As it's not that clear above water, suggesting it's the same refractive index as water so seems see through once submerged?

I won't tell anyone Spago.
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Too many questions, agent Magpie. Just look and forget. It would be hell on earth had this project to fall in the hands of the bad guys.
 

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roflyou guys are too funny, forgot how much I miss this place:friday The material is amazing, if you hold it under a microscope you can see millions of air bubbles, so the beast floats without the shaft, and the material is very light, the specs are very similiar to titanium, according to the specs. I made four of them, believe it or not it machines quite easy (same tools used in Ti), its the polishing thats a biatch The first one I made as a protoype was of polycarbonate, that was sick and actually turned out pretty good, its negative buoyant, will be making 2 more for a couple of guys soon. I tried getting some more material (prohibitively expensive) but as of this writing he is negotiating with the same guys that build the Stealth jets, if that ever happens it'd be ramped! having problemas posting pix i'll try later.

btw spago thx for posting some up....howz it going my friend?
 
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btw spago...howz it going my friend?
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Howz it going? My focus is on boobs.

Your fault here, SS. After seeing the clip you posted in the other thread, all I can think about now is boobs booobs booobs boobs boooooobbbz... :duh

Cool speargun you made anyway (...boobs boobs boobs boobz boobbsss.....)
 
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Stop it Spago, how am I meant to think about this gun when you're going on about boobs!

Lots of little boobs, sorry, bubbles eh. Thats very clever, does that make it stronger than the solid material, given that there's lots of surfaces supporting it in all directions rather than the molecules lining up giving it a strong direction and a weak direction? Must be very light too.

Did think it must have taken a fair bit of polishing if you machine it, especially given the boobles, sorry, bubbles.

More pics! (of the gun, or boobs)
 
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what thread?? please post link (bbooooooobbbbzzzzzz)
 
settingsteel said:
The material is amazing, if you hold it under a microscope you can see millions of air bubbles, so the beast floats without the shaft, and the material is very light, the specs are very similiar to titanium, according to the specs.
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This got me thinking, could this material then be suitable for a knife, just like a titanium knife? Then you could make a pretty nice companion the the gun: a transparent blade with the only visible part being the bungee loop used for securing the blade to the wrist.
Ok, so a transparent blade might sound like a wannabe ninja tool, but then again, with this material you might get a) a blade that floats b) do not rust c) the tiny bubbles could create a very thin serrated edge that might cut a lot better than a true titanium blade.

Another idea is to cut tiny tracks/lines in it and use these tracks to create colored lines with ink. Might create some very interesting effects with glow in the dark paint due to the transparancy, fex a semivisible blade with a glowing inline tracing around the whole blade, or something similar for the gun.

Hehe, the transparancy of this material just makes my brain connect to the pc mod community with all their flashy casings and use of light
 
Obviously really cool but what's the point?

Fish sense movement and vibration in the water using their lateral line receptors: the gun may be hard to see for us but it won't make that much difference to the fish.

Did I just ruin the party rofl

(I still want one though!)
 
Does there have to be a point?

Of course it will make no difference to the fish, unless you can find clear bands and spears. (If you could I can see it helping when on Aspetto and other similar techniques where you and the gun barely move).

Being cool is good enough for me and a gun has to be made of something, so why not this stuff.
 
Fair enough - of course it is a very cool piece of kit but I think you're slighty missing the point of my post if you think clear bands and spears will make much of a difference to the fish.
 
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