Inuit inspired harpoon kit.

Hey! This is a kit designed to help you make a fishing harpoon spear, ROUGHLY inspired by inuit harpoons often used for hunting large marine mammals, Given I have not an original to base this off of, i can only make rough guesses to details, but in any case ive used this to catch invasive carp, and it would probably work for other spear-legal rough-fish like sturgeon!

it is designed to be used on a 1 inch dowel for the mainshaft, and have a 1/4th inch steel rod in the foreshaft for strength and weight. additionally, a metal or stone point will have to be made separately. i used kevlar for the string that attaches the toggle point to the boat/float. to do this, i threated the kevlar through the hole, then tied a few knots to ensure it can com back out. one side has an indent in the hole for the knots to fit cleanly into. to attach the base of the foreshaft, i drilled and rivited it into place using long brass rivets, just as i riveted the steel point in with a brass pin. the foresha