Second gun finally finished

[willloomy]

so after a year of waiting I finally finished my second speargun. It's a 45 inch teak gun. there are three pieces of wood laminated together, It's got a simple teak handle and trigger guard nektonic reef trigger mech and a rob allen Vecta reel. I was trying to make a euro style woody. The total cost was about $135 but i got free wood and haven't bought reel line or a shaft yet so that will add about $100 to the cost. I thought it came out really well. Any ideas for the next gun? Im thinking a longer version of this one maybe with a different wood.

 

[foxfish]

Looks like a strong practical gun Will, what is the dark mark in the first pic?

 

[willloomy]

It's a dowel that held the the chair that the wood was from together

 

[willloomy]

I added a little to the trigger guard should it should be safer now.

 

[willloomy]

got it all rigged up yesterday now i just need to get out and use it.

 

[foxfish]

Good luck with the shooting & be sure to tell us how it goes.

 

[tonyiannu]

Well done Will I wish to be good like you to make one for myself. If you want some good tips or design just click on this link Nuova pagina 1
is in italian (sorry) but just click in one of the names or number that you see to have few ideas.:friday

 

[Pastor]

It's a dowel that held the the chair that the wood was from together

Respect! No finer choice of wood that a straight old chair leg. I bet you will need to adjust that handle with time but that's no issue at all. Nice job mate, I bet it will punch some holes in fish

 

[mennyossi]

Very nice gun Will!
You should try the Mahagoni next time.
What bands and shaft r u going to use for this one?
Cheers,Menny.

 

[nz676]

nice gun i like the trigger guard looks cool

 

[willloomy]

im running a 9/32 (7mm) shaft with 2 16 mm bands

 

[benicio]

i'm also making my own speargun. kinda primitive one that i just use bolo knife to sculpt it
can you post the part of the trigger please.

 

[willloomy]

binico are you talking about the trigger mechanism?

 

[pinoycatfish]

same here benicio... nothing beats the feeling when you land a fish with homemade gear. i`ll post a picture as soon as i learn how to hehehehe. good day everyone and nice gun willoomy. please post some fish pix thanx

 

[pinoycatfish]

@willoomy i think he means the trigger mechanism. here in the Philippines almost majority of home made speargun uses a sort of lever in place of a trigger. i`ll post (soon) picture of homemade gear fishermen use here. from mask to fins to speargun.

 

[willloomy]

@willoomy i think he means the trigger mechanism. here in the Philippines almost majority of home made speargun uses a sort of lever in place of a trigger. i`ll post (soon) picture of homemade gear fishermen use here. from mask to fins to speargun.

sounds cool i would like to see that very much
is it like the hawaiian sling style hinge guns or something more like a real spear gun.