At 08:41 PM 7/20/98 -0600, you wrote: >George: > >Adobe is a reputable company. You should not be placed on a mailing list >for downloading their softare; at least, I haven't. > Says right on the registration form that you're giving Adobe permission to send you email (SPAM). I downloaded anyway. . . gave them my Hotmail account address. . . which is the one I use for "SpamForms" and such. So, having downloaded and printed out the paddle article, I'm thinking that this might be a great project. I have a bandsaw and all the other fancy stuff. . . dad was a cabinet maker. Mortise and tenon joints for Oak "bolsters" on the tips might be neat, pinned in with hardwood dowels. An oil finish is OK for a closed grain wood like Ash, but open grain woods like Fir, Pine, Spruce would seem to keep opening the grain when exposed to water for any length of time. Ash seems like a heavy wood for a paddle (although it's springy and makes great baseball bats). Yew is a nice hardwood for archery bows. . . might also be a good choice for a paddle. I use the paddle as an out-rigger to brace against sand/rock beaches and concrete boat ramps when I get into the cockpit. Light fiberglass seems like a good idea on the ends of the blades. Maybe just epoxy on the upper blades and loom. If I'm going to cover the blade with epoxy and some light glass, then a light wood seems like a good choice. There's a lot of Alder available in Oregon. Technically, it's a hardwood with a closed grain, but it's not "hard" to shape. Of course there's always the option of laminating a stringer down the center of the paddle . . . Any suggestions from those who have gone before? Plane, Geo./Svenn ______________________________ George Bergeron, Secretary '99 Oswego Heritage Council http://www.europa.com/~heritage/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 21 1998 - 07:33:09 PDT
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