Mark wrote, "I am planning on coating it with epoxy, but I'll probably take it out a few more times to see what I think about leaving it unfinished. I thought about just covering the tips of the blades to give them a little protection, but that sounds like a bad idea now." Having done both -- coating a storm paddle with epoxy and covering the tips of an early stick with a plastic compound to simulate the indigenous peoples' use of bone tips and edges -- don't. Cracks in the epoxy trapped water inside the paddle and eventually led to material failure; prior to that, it just made the paddle slippery -- not a good thing in a storm paddle. The tips also trapped moisture in the wood -- only faster. Keep it natural -- so much better feel and grip. The wood doesn't care. Joq *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Sep 10 2007 - 17:16:20 PDT
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