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When tripping I typically trim the canoe with my main pack, and a smaller pack which holds my food bag, and daily essentials- this pack is carried along with the canoe on double trip carries. The main bag goes as far forward as possible, the small bag in front of the center thwart where I can...

It's my understanding that traditional spar varnish provides a finish that does not harden to the point of being brittle unlike urethane finishes, thereby providing a somewhat elastic protection for wood parts that expand and contract with changes in temperature and humidity.

Here's a little progress I did yesterday in a fit of boredom. Too cold in my barn shop for any real sustained effort, but I brought the canoe down from the rack where the canvas filler has been curing since late October. The excess canvas at was trimmed off using a clever cutting tool which...

Well, there ya go... one more reason to paddle only wood/canvas canoes! :cool:

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I participate in a bicycling forum, https://forums.thepaceline.net/forumdisplay.php?f=3 Vendors are listed there on a header group, with ‘clickable’ icons. Viewers are taken directly to that vendors website. I presume the vendors pay a fee to be present on the forum opening page, and they...

Thanks for your compliment! Don't forget, it's the quarter sawn Sycamore that exhibits that figure when you cut across the medullary rays. I don't have any flat sawn Sycamore to compare the figure with, so I don't know how that would look. With regard to the Osage... in the piece that I...

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 wife, I don't get much done in any one session. The woodworking is complete, and now... a first coat of 50/50 varnish/thinner to seal the grain. The grips will...

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 their use out in the woods.

The Osage Orange is looking intriguing. Not wide enough for a single board paddle and besides, there's very little straight grain. When splitting to make it manageable for the bandsaw it curved significantly as shown here. However, that curved grain will match the curve of a paddle blade...

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 picture: The white blade pattern in the same picture is one I contemplated using. It's a shameless copy of a Turtle Paddleworks blade I once had, though I...

A little paddle progress: Yesterday I salvaged a piece of Osage Orange, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera from a downed roadside tree. My brother thought it might make interesting canoe gunwales from the remaining 18' log off the road, but I thought I might experiment first by...

Some of my previous grips. The quarter sawn Sycamore paddle on the right has a particularly comfortable grip for me. I guess it falls somewhere in between the two featured in your last photo.

Whew... thanks for going first! Me too. Goonstroker. Miles and miles of it. My wrists just wont' bend that way. I learned to paddle whitewater first, and no one told me I needed to learn another way!! Now it's too late. You know.... old dog/new tricks sort of thing. And then there's...

Nice grip. I like it.

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 a lake paddler and only use the paddle to push off in soft terrain. When tripping I bring one “dainty” paddle for easy paddling and a spare that I can really...

Okay, no significant suggestions from the crowd so here goes with some decisions. I tapered the shaft on the cedar/sycamore paddle and chose the blade shape- my interpretation of a Voyageur blade, but essentially limited by the size of the glued-on scraps I had; about 4" at bottom and 5.25"at...

Since my Atkinson Traveler build is in the filler curing stage; I thought I would make a couple of paddles for fun. I have some scant 3/4" thick Western Red Cedar, and a couple of Sycamore offcuts (the material cut off from the shaft of a single board paddle). I have wanted to make an all...

Interesting to know that about Nate. Coincidentally, his last name is Atkinson, so it just seemed appropriate that it should go to his program! Honestly, I don't know just what I will use the new canoe for. I know that sounds crazy but I just wanted to build a canoe and that's the form that...

My choice for all around use would be the Penobscot in either Sassafras or Curly Maple. I have paddles in both and like them immensely. Hey... I wonder if we're related?