Innovative Ideas Mans Club

[mazman]

will chuck pics up tonight but i'll try explaining it. It's a broom handle with a slight notch carved in it and a hole drilled. the spear tip is a single prong with a 90 degree bend in it that slots into the hole when the prong is in the notch. Just wanting to put some binding around it to secure it a bit better.

[mr perch]

Originally Posted by mazman

will chuck pics up tonight but i'll try explaining it. It's a broom handle with a slight notch carved in it and a hole drilled. the spear tip is a single prong with a 90 degree bend in it that slots into the hole when the prong is in the notch. Just wanting to put some binding around it to secure it a bit better.

I used thin copper wire for the exact same job as yours...works a treat.

[crabcrusher]

Getting the monkey off its back! Thats innovation.

[crabcrusher]

[Basti]

gold!

[mazman]

thanks mr perch, will try that

[Slazmo]

Originally Posted by mr perch

I used thin copper wire for the exact same job as yours...works a treat.

You can get a Otter brand 304 stainless steel wire, I have a couple of bails of it very strong stuff - that would be better with the steel on the spear head...

[crabcrusher]

Originally Posted by Basti

gold!

Not my innovation... But had to share😄

[mr perch]

Originally Posted by Slazmo

You can get a Otter brand 304 stainless steel wire, I have a couple of bails of it very strong stuff - that would be better with the steel on the spear head...

I wound it around a gaff 10 years ago and its still going strong today, cant complain with that....not that i catch many fish worthy of gaffing

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by Slazmo

Brilliant! Finally figured how to stop the tarp sinking into the boat!

Pvc pipe is the fishermans friend in more ways than one

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by mazman

Hi guys thought instead of posting up some innovative ideas I would call on some of your 'expertise'. I currently have two hand spears but the tips are a little loose (will posts pics of them tonight) I'm wanting to bind them onto the shaft (rod binding style) but I don't know what to use, want to it to be abrasion resistant.

Cheers Alex

It will be easier with the pics but with spear making, metal wire seems to be the go.

Its strengthens the shaft around the impact zone. There are some video's where you drill a hole down the middle of a wooden shaft. In goes the spear head, then they wrap tightly with fencing wire a fair way down the shaft. Then they bang a nail next to the shaft of the spear head to tighten it all up.

Due to the impact of driving the spear into rock while spearing fish, and that they throw the spear - everything has to be symmetrical and strong so the spear handle doesnt shatter near the tip.




Or you can cut notches in the side of the spear shaft like this video

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by crabcrusher

Getting the monkey off its back! Thats innovation.

That appears to be the work of a true innovator. One who was told it couldnt be done and did it anyway. Hats off to him - who ever he is

Its blokes like that, that give me the inspiration to try new things

[greggo_1]

Originally Posted by yellow door 1

That appears to be the work of a true innovator. One who was told it couldnt be done and did it anyway. Hats off to him - who ever he is

Its blokes like that, that give me the inspiration to try new things

I'm loving the BFL vids. There should be more of them.

That was a fair distance you rode to get to that spot...!

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by greggo_1

I'm loving the BFL vids. There should be more of them.

That was a fair distance you rode to get to that spot...!

Its how I keep myself in peak physical condition at all times

[matthewsiow]

Why the man burned the stick before turning it into a spear? is that easier to bent it?