Building Feathered Wooden Kayak Paddles
After reading Douglas Alderson's letter on building paddles, I decided to try it myself. I really liked his method of laminating shafts, but I really wanted to build a feathered paddle shaft.
The instructions in the pages below contain exerpts in "quotes" from Douglas's original article.
Here
are the first two paddles I made using the instructions on these pages.
The one on the right has a bent-lamination shaft with solid glass blades.
The left one has a scarfed shaft with foam-cored glass blades.
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