Mark,
Thank you for your words of encouragement. It's very meaningful coming from someone already established in this business. I for one am still trying to get my head above water. I've spent the last four years working on this project and I've yet to make a single penny. I only hope to get my wooden guns out on the market and sustain a healthy business. Thank god I still have my day job. I gotta feed my wife and kids somehow…..
I was hesistant to take the CNC approach at first because it involves enormous amounts of capital to purchase and maintain an industrial CNC router. I realized a $50,000 dollar machine would only be justified by large scale production. I'm just a small peanut with a garage shop, a relative unknown with limited cash flow. But I believed so wholeheartedly in the benefits of this technology that I took the plunge and built my own custom machine to my own specs. I paid a fraction of the cost but forfeited countless hours of my free time. I stopped tinkering with guns and focused my attention on this machine for six months. I have absolutely no regrets. Designing and building the machine was an accomplishement in itself. I'm back on the guns with a newly found motivation and a sense of excitement. I can hardly sleep at night. You know how it is, you're the entrepreneurial type. I've got the same bug.
I would've liked to have been able to say that I was the first to introduce a wooden gun that was fabricated from CNC. But Omer just flat out beat me to it with the Master America. I'm okay with that. Omer is forward thinking and willing to take risks, a philosophy and style of business that I like. I respect companies like that.
On the wood thing, yes you're right about teak being the best combination of strength weathering resistance and beauty. But it comes at a very steep price which gets passed on to the consumer. Prices most people have a hard time swallowing. So I plan to offer both teak guns and other hardwood guns at a more affordable price.
I've been working on a couple more prototypes for my Aggressor line. These two are winged to provide more buoyancy and shooting stability up front. I've already gotten some good feedback on the first two guns that have been in the water. Turns out they were nose heavy with heavier shafts. No better way to solve that problem but to add volume to the stock with what else? WINGZ! The first is a teak and cocobolo combination. Those wings were hand shaped and laminated on to the stock. This gun wasn't quite complete but I couldn't quite wait to give it a tung bath.

He he he...
The second gun is the hickory and walnut combination with wings that were shaped by the cnc. It's sleek and deadly looking don't you think? Believe it or not it still needs to be laminated. The pieces fit together like a puzzle. The last machining operation is cutting the track.
http://www.spear-diver.com/wingedprotos/
Anyway, still got more tweaking to do. Hope you all enjoyed the pics.
Gil