Bamboo Fishing Spear

LOL ..... I remember playing w/ bamboo and having bandages on my fingers...always getting cut with it, Ya' know ... Young,Dumb....etc lol
 
texastonydobbs said:
Looks Great , you did an excellent job bro !
bamboo can splitter and the splits can be razor sharp themselves !
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I ALWAYS wear gloves when handling wood of any kind:eek:, especially Bamboo. Been cut too many times, and big bad splinters plain suck:barf:
 
I seldom wear gloves at all...but sometimes wish I had. But dried bamboo slivers can pass through most gloves...
 
That's neat, I have some bamboo in my front yard that I should give that a try.
 
MRpink said:
That's neat, I have some bamboo in my front yard that I should give that a try.
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Well...this is the first one I've made that I got no blood on (my own)....yet. Patience is a friend here...don't get in a hurry.
 
mistwalker said:
Well...this is the first one I've made that I got no blood on (my own)....yet. Patience is a friend here...don't get in a hurry.
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Haha, thanks! I got the picture when everybody was talking about cuts, blood, and nasty splinters. I've messed with bamboo before but I never noticed, I'll be extra careful.
 
A quick and easy metal fishing head is to bind bicycle spokes around the outside of a pole then sharpen the threaded ends . If slightly spread out like the bamboo they tend to spring apart over the catch and then hold the fish under tension , some small notches on the inside diameter of your spoke ring helps to keep it there as well . But that i s a cool spear
 
MRpink said:
Haha, thanks! I got the picture when everybody was talking about cuts, blood, and nasty splinters. I've messed with bamboo before but I never noticed, I'll be extra careful.
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Bear Grylls recently had to evacced out of the 'Nam jungle because he cut himself so badly on bamboo splinters. There was some pictures on one of the sub-forums. Almost lost one of his fingers.
 
kvaughn said:
Bear Grylls recently had to evacced out of the 'Nam jungle because he cut himself so badly on bamboo splinters. There was some pictures on one of the sub-forums. Almost lost one of his fingers.
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It can be vicious if you don't pay attention and get in too big of a hurry...I've had small slivers of dried bamboo stuck deep in my hand and most of the way through a finger before when I was a kid.
 
Nice job! I've made plenty of bamboo spears but never with that seperation ring you made. I like it! Usually I just put two branches between the tines to form a cross inside and lash them together. It works, but your way is much cooler.
 
kage said:
Nice job! I've made plenty of bamboo spears but never with that seperation ring you made. I like it! Usually I just put two branches between the tines to form a cross inside and lash them together. It works, but your way is much cooler.
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Thanks, the reason I had to move the final finished product out of the BK7 thread was that ring...I cheated and used a hand saw to make that ring, but then liked how it looked too much not to put it in it. However I have since played around with the bamboo some and learned that I do have a knife that I could make this whole spear with, ring and all, using only that one knife but that will be a later thread.
 
Good job all in all, thanks for the work you put in. I have some metal frog gigs laying around in my gear pile, works on fish too.
 
1Tracker said:
Good job all in all, thanks for the work you put in. I have some metal frog gigs laying around in my gear pile, works on fish too.
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I have had a few...but then there are so many ways to make one if I need one I quit carrying them.
 
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