Patrick Corry

Apparently I misunderstood your intent. I was not lobbying or advocating for paid advertisers.

I participate in a bicycling forum, https://forums.thepaceline.net/forumdisplay.php?f=3 Vendors are listed there on a header group...

Thanks for your compliment! Don't forget, it's the quarter sawn Sycamore that exhibits that figure when you cut across the medullary...

Here's a little progress. Unfortunately, I can't spend much time out in the barn; between the cold and caring for my currently unwell...

Yes, me too... good to see you back to shop projects. It was your example that led me to embrace this pursuit of wood canvas canoes and...

The Osage Orange is looking intriguing. Not wide enough for a single board paddle and besides, there's very little straight grain...

Yes, I've already committed to a beavertail blade on that one. I've only made one other beavertail- the cherry one shown in this...

A little paddle progress: Yesterday I salvaged a piece of Osage Orange, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera from a...

Some of my previous grips. The quarter sawn Sycamore paddle on the right has a particularly comfortable grip for me. I guess it falls...

Whew... thanks for going first! Me too. Goonstroker. Miles and miles of it. My wrists just wont' bend that way. I learned to paddle...

Nice grip. I like it.

Fortunately the ash and walnut are pretty straight grained and plane nicely. I have a pile of curly maple I picked up 15 or so years...

My blades are probably about 3/8” to 7/16” at the center, tapering to maybe 1/8” or 3/16” at the edges & bottom. I’m almost exclusively...

Okay, no significant suggestions from the crowd so here goes with some decisions. I tapered the shaft on the cedar/sycamore paddle...