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  1. 23rd January 2010, 12:01 PM #1
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    Last Friday I wanted a good challenge and a break from the other jobs. I decided to build to MIK's paddle plan a kayak paddle for a couple six-hour canoes some 3rd-8th grade students are building with me in Portland, Maine. The paddle will be donated for the auction where one boat will be "let go". It is serving as a nice way to prototype what I hope will be the lightest, and most comfortable paddle ever made out of wood. The key with paddles is that swing weight is low, low, low. So a thin-walled, birdsmouth shaft was in order. I'll make some carbon blades for it later. The new part for me was making these tiny staves and cutting them on the router table to make asymmetric staves for an octagonal shaft. I am very happy with the results, have blogged on it, and plan to get a couple more into some friends hands for paddling this spring. They will tell me the truth, whether they suck or are worth continuing to develop. (They'll be stepping down from carbon paddles, I'm sure!).

    The free plans are great and everyone should grab them and make a paddle, even if you don't paddle a boat. It can be an emergency paddle for your boat if you want to leave the oars ashore. Or you can use them as a large spatula.
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    Nice job Clint. The plans show the paddle as being solid - so you don't need to leave out the middle like Clint!

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  4. 24th January 2010, 11:21 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boatmik View Post
    .. plans show the paddle as being solid - so you don't need to leave out the middle like Clint!
    Oh, yeah, didn't think of that! Now you tell me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Compass Project View Post
    (They'll be stepping down from carbon paddles, I'm sure!).
    If out-and-out power is your thing, yes.
    For we mere mortals, No Way !! A good wooden paddle is "alive" in the hands.
    Something that carbon & aluminium can't hope to replicate.


    Quote Originally Posted by Compass Project View Post
    The free plans are great and everyone should grab them and make a paddle, even if you don't paddle a boat. It can be an emergency paddle for your boat if you want to leave the oars ashore. Or you can use them as a large spatula.
    Preach it Brother !!
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    My hope is that the paddle is indeed "alive" such that it jumps out of their hands, give them a gentle "thwack, thwack" and tells them they have been missing out!

    I need to come up with an ultralight line to use for a drip stopper near the paddles. I've seen turks heads used.

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    This chap in Germany sells 1mm dyneema in 5 colour ways. How do his 100m reel prices compare for you Clint. His postal costs to the UK are very low,

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    The other possible thin line might be one of the thicker fishing lines?

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