- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Well first time my post got cut off....Suck to be you and wanting to know the rest of it lol
-
Happy Mathematics Day! ❌📐♾️
The start of a paddle
- Thread starter Canotrouge
- Start date
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2017
- Messages
- 900
- Reaction score
- 429
The blade is of the Malecite type. I reject your reality and substitute my own.
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Hahaha that is awesome!!
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
G
Guest
Guest
When you present it to the parents please ask if there is some back story to toting around that piece of Cherry for 20 years.
I appreciate wood with history, and have a few small pieces of kiln dried ash and walnut from a friend in the timber industry, waiting for the right use. And some stick and grown-in embedded semiprecious stone pieces, now dried for several years and soon ready to be carved.
And some pangs of regret, or at least curiosity, in historic wood as well. Shortly before my father passed away I delivered a truck load of butternut from an upstate NY cabinet maker Uncle to my Dads home shop in Atlanta.
I mean a truckload; it would not fit in my little Toyota and I had to borrow a full sized truck, filled with 8 foot lengths of butternut up to the bed rails.
Gawd I hope it did not turn into firewood.
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Unfortunately I won't get to see the parents or the daughter, Some one will come and pick up the paddle sometime today or tomorrow that is from what I get the girl's boy friend....
Nice job, it flows well and looks great. I noticed you wrap to do the lamination s, have you ever tried using the 4" palletizing tape for that job, it is a really useful clamp material (just a thought ... sharing).
Brian
Brian
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Never heard of that tape... I use strips of inner tubes, they are free, I can reuse them, the give lots of pressure, I can cut them the width and the length I need for the task at hand... Really useful stuff in the shop! I'll look that tape up for sure!
G
Guest
Guest
Second inner tubes in the shop, especially bicycle tubes. Handy for so many things.
Inner tubes are good, but they also have a LOT of pull, I use 3/16" shock cord around the shop for those jobs .... but the pallet tape is really useful as a clamping material.
https://www.staples.ca/en/Staples-H...let-Wrap-Dispenser/product_42143_1-CA_1_20001
You stretch it as you wrap your project, it tries to go back to it's original shape when you stop pulling, so it gets tighter ... if you wrap it once, you get a certain compression, wrap it twice it is double, so the more times you wrap , the more clamping you get. So you can control how much clamping pressure you use for any given project.
I have used it to hold strips in place, wrap boxes for gluing after assembly, it would be perfect for putting together hollow shaft paddles for gluing ... it has a lot of uses in the shop. Since it comes on a roll, you just use as much or little as you need for the job at hand.
Brian
https://www.staples.ca/en/Staples-H...let-Wrap-Dispenser/product_42143_1-CA_1_20001
You stretch it as you wrap your project, it tries to go back to it's original shape when you stop pulling, so it gets tighter ... if you wrap it once, you get a certain compression, wrap it twice it is double, so the more times you wrap , the more clamping you get. So you can control how much clamping pressure you use for any given project.
I have used it to hold strips in place, wrap boxes for gluing after assembly, it would be perfect for putting together hollow shaft paddles for gluing ... it has a lot of uses in the shop. Since it comes on a roll, you just use as much or little as you need for the job at hand.
Brian
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Sounds like my inner tubes does all that... At least I did all of it with them... And plus the pallet wrap is single use plastic crap that litter our planet to death, no thank you!
I wasn't suggesting swapping to tape, as much as having it as an additional option in the shop ... I have found there are very few universal items and having a few choices sometimes makes a particular job easier.
Brian
Brian
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
I agree. I'm just a bit... Lets say particular when it comes to single use stuff I hate using things that I have to throw away after only one use or in the middle of a job... For exemple, I buy my foam brush at LeeValley tools cause they are made in the USA and way better than the cheep crap you find at Canadian tire!!
I agree with that, I use JEN foam brushes for that same reason ... I will have to check Lee Valley and see what they have, tks for that tip. With all the stuff I buy there, you think I would have checked those out.
Brian
Brian
That's a really nice paddle there Canot, beautiful job.
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Thank you!!
I just oiled two paddles and wet sanded them with 600 grit that I had on hand. I am very pleased with the results visually and even more with how smooth they felt. I doubt I will ever varnish another paddle.
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 3,356
- Reaction score
- 479
Yes that is the idea... And if you warm up the oil first to like 50degrees C it penetrate the wood like crazy!!
I just started an other one the other day for a wedding gift, it will be sitka spruce and white ash... I will be trying a new thing to me, banding the blade edge with a strip of ash!! We"ll see how it turn out!!
I'll keep that in mind, mine was way below room temp. I did another one today that was yellow cedar and it didn't seem to soak up much oil. I sanded it with 320 before oiling, what do you recommend? I had varnished that paddle years ago and it never looked as good as it does now.
