hey paddy, if you ever come down to a meeting you'ld find that all the experienced and senior divers would jump to the chance of helping a juinor out with help and techniques.
as a juinor myself i was approached and helped out from the first meeting.
just come to a dive or meeting and you could get all the help with watever you needed!
As with the spear give it a try and see how it goes. It would be interesting to see if the tungsten tip will stay atached to the shaft after a sudden impact.
good luck i hope it works for you!
dont take it as people bagging the idea of the tungston tip, but in a comp you want to keep your gear as simple as posible to narrow the risks of gear malfunction!
there isn't a feeling worste than not being able to finish a comp due to part of your kit breaking!
regards trent

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KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) is a fine principle, but how would technology move forward if people weren't prepared to put their ideas to the test. Give it a shot, if it works well, fantastic you could make a big difference to people who like shooting rocks rather than fish. If it doesn't, well then you'll have learned something, which is never a bad thing.

Chin up, maybe you can prove people wrong (if it works REALLY well, remember who's supporting you )

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if ya fuck ya spear paddy i got an old 1.3 that i snapped at the shank so it's probably 1.2 now you can have for a long neck. you could even use it as a dummy instead of using your good one mate.

lol too late mate, all done and it looks alright

rob allen springsteel 6.6mm
tungsten tip tapped into stainless steel water tube
tig welded into spear.

only thing we r not sure about is the stainless welded to spring steel

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soz about the shit pics my sis cam shit its self so had to use phone

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Good stuff, now you have to try it out. Got a prime rock lined up?

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i hope to find one somewhere

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ahh cant wait for you too prove sum people wrong paddy

victory will be sweet