| Project by Marc Craig | posted 11-25-2015 02:54 PM | 2015 views | 2 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Since reading Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman I wanted to make a canoe paddle for myself. I started with some scrap cedar from my kitchen table project and some ash and walnut wood that was left over from another project. I laminated them together with some dowels for strength. I then took out the hand tools and shaped the paddle. A very fun project using the spoke shave was great got lots of time learning about hand tools I cant wait to make another one. I did about 10 coats of spar varnish and it looks great the lighting in the pictures does not due it justice.
-- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" TR #26
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WoodNSawdust
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#1 posted 11-25-2015 02:57 PM
Nice looking paddle. Keep a good finish on it.
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Northwest29
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#2 posted 11-25-2015 04:05 PM
Nice work and the combination of woods make it very attractive. The shaping is an interesting process keeping both sides the same. Well done.
-- Ron, "Curiosity is a terrible thing to waste."
bushmaster
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#3 posted 11-25-2015 08:27 PM
Nice paddle, Looks like you are into kayaks, I have canoed, made the canoe and paddles, but now have been making kayaks, I make an inexpensive, quick build, strong, light weight kayak. lighter than Kevlar, kayak. I had hoped to sell plans but never got that far. Would like to post construction process on Lumber Jocks if people where interested. Didn’t have a digital camera for the first biadarkia style kayak I built. Need to build another one.
Happy paddling.
-- Brian - Hazelton, British Columbia
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#4 posted 11-26-2015 01:54 AM
Nice looking paddle. Making a canoe is on my “to do” list. Which also means I will need to make a paddle. Yours turned out really well.
-- Joe - I am not entirely worthless, I can always serve as a bad example.
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#5 posted 11-26-2015 03:00 AM
Turned out relly well. Lots of fun making them and really useful. Keep up the great work.
-- Respectfully, Paul
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#6 posted 11-26-2015 02:33 PM
Beatiful. Nice job
-- Disfruta tu trabajo (enjoy your work) (Bandera, Argentina)
Marc Craig
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#7 posted 11-27-2015 08:54 PM
Thank you all for the positive feed back. Bushmaster I would love to see the kayak you built Ihave a plastic one for now I am going to make a few more paddles for friends and then the canoe I have been researching cedar strip canoes and have fallen in love with them. Ihave a few more projects for the house but i think next winter the canoe project starts!
-- "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" TR #26
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