Date: 7/27/2000, 10:44 am
Shawn, that's totally cool! I gotta try this! Show us some photos of your paddle when you can.
Ross
: After reading the WoodenBoat article on the Bird's Mouth Technique for making
: hollow spars, I thought, "Hey, that could be used for paddle
: shafts".
: The magic of the bird's mouth technique is that the pieces are all
: self-aligning and no special jigs or fixtures are needed.
: So, last night, I laid up my first one.
: I used 6 strips of 1/4" x 7/16" spruce, and 2 strips of 1/4" x
: 11/16" spruce (to make it oval). One narrow edge of each strip had a
: 45* rabbet cut in it to receive the corner of the adjacent piece.
: Notice that I increased my strip sizes from those shown to give me an overall
: paddle shaft size of about 1 1/8" x 1 3/8". The sizes shown are
: for a shaft sized for my wife, which I'll lay up tonight.
: I used 8 SS hose clamps and a generous assortment of spring clamps to hold it
: all together. When it was all clamped (ends tightly clamped, middle
: loosely clamped) I grabbed the ends where you'd place your hands with
: screw clamps and twisted a 65* or so right feather into the shaft. Voila!
: A hollow, feathered shaft. I just need to figure out a nice way to plug
: the ends where they're exposed at the blades.
: I also plan to lay up a few straight shafts to build Greenland paddles or
: take-apart paddles.
: Shawn
Messages In This Thread
- WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft *Pic*
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 10:32 am- Re: Good Going Shawn!! *Pic*
Bill Boyd -- 7/30/2000, 9:04 pm- Blade Idea
mike allen ---> -- 7/31/2000, 5:52 pm- Re: Why stop there? *Pic*
Bill Boyd -- 8/1/2000, 11:22 am- Re: Why stop there?
Shawn B -- 8/1/2000, 1:36 pm- Re: Thank you Shawn!
Bill Boyd -- 8/1/2000, 8:26 pm
- Don't you know where to stop?????
mike allen ---> -- 8/1/2000, 12:36 pm - Re: Thank you Shawn!
- Re: Blade Idea - Like for Kent Boutillier
mike allen ---> -- 7/31/2000, 7:28 pm- Lamenting le LE lost, lonely & leftout - (nt)
mike allen ---> -- 7/31/2000, 7:42 pm
- Re: Why stop there?
- Re: Good Going Shawn!!
Ross Leidy -- 7/31/2000, 10:14 am- Re: Good Going Shawn!!
Bill Boyd -- 7/31/2000, 11:49 am
- Re: Why stop there? *Pic*
- Seal the inside with epoxy
Dale Frolander -- 7/28/2000, 2:39 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Spidey -- 7/27/2000, 5:08 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Mike Nicholson -- 7/27/2000, 5:35 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 6:49 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
TomRobb -- 7/28/2000, 10:27 am
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
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Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 5:26 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Spidey -- 7/27/2000, 6:21 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Ron Eike -- 7/28/2000, 7:37 pm
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Rehd -- 7/27/2000, 1:20 pm- Re: Possible failure?
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 2:50 pm
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Rob Forsell -- 7/27/2000, 12:57 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Don Beale -- 7/27/2000, 12:28 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 12:58 pm- Re:I have to disagree with the crowd
Don Beale -- 7/28/2000, 12:05 am- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Mike Hanks -- 7/27/2000, 1:32 pm- Re: Got weep holes?
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 1:52 pm- eliminate the need for weepholes
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/28/2000, 1:08 am- Re: Got weep holes?
Craig Doyle -- 7/27/2000, 2:59 pm - Re: Got weep holes?
- eliminate the need for weepholes
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re:I have to disagree with the crowd
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
peter czerpak -- 7/27/2000, 12:13 pm- Re: Composite cored Bird's Mouth
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 12:56 pm- Re: Composite cored Bird's Mouth
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/28/2000, 10:12 am- Possible composite core technique
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/28/2000, 12:56 am- Re: Composite cored Bird's Mouth
Bill Boyd -- 7/27/2000, 9:36 pm- Re: Hollow core=Brilliant!
Shawn Baker -- 7/28/2000, 12:29 am- Re: yup *Pic*
Bill Boyd -- 7/29/2000, 4:00 pm
- Re: yup *Pic*
- Possible composite core technique
- Re: Composite cored Bird's Mouth
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Mike Hanks -- 7/27/2000, 11:05 am- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Shawn B -- 7/27/2000, 1:01 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
j -- 7/28/2000, 3:51 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Jason -- 7/28/2000, 4:26 pm- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
jtmc -- 7/28/2000, 11:38 pm
- Re: Twist in Bird's Mouth
Shawn B -- 7/28/2000, 4:22 pm - Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
- Re: WoodenBoat Bird's Mouth Paddle Shaft
Ross Leidy -- 7/27/2000, 10:44 am - Blade Idea
- Re: Good Going Shawn!! *Pic*