Mem's making a paddle so do I....

[Canotrouge]

So my daughter and my niece are in need for new ww paddles, so I started today to work on that... The shaft will be red cedar core tapered to the blade tip and double tapered to the grip, under vertical grain sitka spruce lams that will be covered by a Dynel sleeve. The blade will be all red cedar cover in S-glass and its edge surrounded by Dynel cord! "T" grip at the to end!!
Don't hold your breath for updates, cause I have other paddles on the go to finish and other small projects to get going.... But I will get back here with progress!!

 

[memaquay]

Cripes, you're the Alan Gage of paddle making! You'll probably have five or six made before I get mine done!

 

[Canotrouge]

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Lol, don't you worry I'm far from being Alan Gage... I wish I could make boats like he does, but then I wouldn't know where to put them....

Here is a picture of there previous paddle. It was made differently, the shaft was hollow... but I didn't have any wood peeped for that and didn't feel like working outside at -15c....

 

[Alan Gage]

I'm looking forward to watching this. Paddle making is mostly a mystery to me.

Also, I didn't know dynel cord existed but I'm glad to have found out.

Alan

 

[sailsman63]

I gonna watch as well. I need to add some paddles to my canoe build, trying to improve on the hacky job I did the first time around.

 

[Canotrouge]

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So I did get to glue up today.... After fie turning all the parts, and mixing the glue,, I use AM18 made by different companies, one of them is "Circa 1850", it comes in powder form, you mixe it with water, 2:1 powder:water and you get a 4hrs open time at 20c, need to be under clamps for 5 to 12 hrs depending on temp. It is waterproof when cured(48hrs). I really like that stuff, but your joints have to be nicely fitted, cause it is not gap filling like epoxy!!

 

[sweeper]

You get around when it comes to clamps, that's a nice variety.

 

[Canotrouge]

Lol, to many of the wrong kind... I need more of the small kind... But it'd working....

 

[sweeper]

I am starting to work on getting the correct clamps. Is that a Lee Valley Backsaw in your OP?

 

[Canotrouge]

No that one is one of my first back saw, Adria made in BC, a Xcut carcass saw really nice saw!!

 

[Canotrouge]

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A bit more progress on the girls ww paddles... I cleaned up all the dry glue, true the shaft and established the tapers... Cleaned the blade parts, and tapered them to match the shaft taper... The glue lines where mostly nice and tight, but there was a few little gaps... Next is to glue the blade parts to there shaft and shape the blades and shape the shaft from "square" to oval....

 

[memaquay]

I use a big old power planer and eye-ball it, takes the blade down in about 15 minutes, it's part of my "good-enough" philosophy!

 

[Canotrouge]

I use a hand plane and it takes me less than that... A friend of mine that i use to work for told me one day:" What if good enough isn't good enough?"....So since then I always try to do the best I can with what I have!!

 

[Canotrouge]

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So this morning I got the blade parts glued up to there shaft. It went really well when everything is nice and "square", and you spring the joints everything goes together noce and tight!!

 

[Iskweo]

I like hand planing too....something satisfying about all those shavings and no noise.

 

[sweeper]

I like to use hand planes also. I find I make mistakes slower.

 

[latremorej]

Very cool Canotrouge! Another vote here for hand tools! Like sweeper says, I can't do as much damage as quickly. It gives me more time to realize that I'm screwing something up. Hahahaha

Jason

 

[Canotrouge]

I like hand tool. the fact that it makes me slow down, I can listen to music, I dont have to wear hear protection, I can work in a smaller space, I've been at it for the last 10 years.... That said, I'm building a shop this summer, and there will be a tool that will go in, a thickness planer, I don't mind bringing wood down by hand, and it doesn't take me much time, but it is work... I think I will change my way of doing things a bit, like all the rough dimensioning will be done with the help of thickness planer and band saw... but I'll keep the rest for hand tools, it is much more enjoyable and not much slower when you do one of a kind pieces...

 

[sweeper]

When I wanted to slow down and switch to hand tools I build a bench and put all the hand tools within easy reach, the power tools were in a cabinet across the shop.


and this behind the bench

 

[memaquay]

Holy Moly! That's not very many planes! I'm pretty sure I could find more in my garage if I just cleaned the dang thing up! Just kidding, I think I've still got one hand pusher. The beauty of electric hand planes are the visits to the hospital to re-attach parts. I'm thinking I might try to plane this new paddle down with my electric wood splitter, if I can get the grain right, lol!