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Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
By:Stephen Troy
Date: 9/10/2010, 7:45 pm

After calling a bunch of the wood supplies in the "Where the heck do I find clear cedar 2x4's" thread and finding out they don't carry clear within 2 hours of me, I went back to the local yards and found a couple oversized peices with clear enough 2 x 4 sections to make whole paddles and have clear wood leftover for blades in a laminated one. So I'm in business...

...sort of.

I looked at Matt Johnson's video on carving, and I notice he mentions that block planing the initial long cuts would take forever, so he just uses a band saw. My question is, would a jigsaw work on these? I know the blade can angle in a bit, so I was thinking I if I stayed 1/4" outside the line and planed the rest I might get away with it.

Will that work? Other options?

Messages In This Thread

Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
Stephen Troy -- 9/10/2010, 7:45 pm
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
Scott Shurlow -- 9/11/2010, 10:43 pm
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2010, 12:24 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2010, 12:26 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2010, 9:44 am
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/11/2010, 9:10 am
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Mike Savage -- 9/11/2010, 7:13 am
What do you have?
Kudzu -- 9/10/2010, 11:10 pm
Re: What do you have?
Stephen Troy -- 9/11/2010, 1:12 am
Re: What do you have?
Stephen Troy -- 9/12/2010, 7:21 pm
Re: What do you have?
Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2010, 12:42 am
Re: What do you have?
Bill Hamm -- 9/13/2010, 12:38 am
Re: What do you have?
Kudzu -- 9/11/2010, 8:15 am
I agree (& some sharpening tips)
Brian Nystrom -- 9/11/2010, 11:51 am
Re: I agree (& some sharpening tips)
Bill Hamm -- 9/12/2010, 12:20 am
Re: I agree (& some sharpening tips)
Kudzu -- 9/11/2010, 3:37 pm
Re: I agree (& some sharpening tips)
Will N to Go -- 9/11/2010, 2:12 pm
Re: What do you have?
Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2010, 9:40 am
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face *PIC*
theluckyone17 -- 9/10/2010, 10:06 pm
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face *PIC*
G New -- 9/10/2010, 10:25 pm
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face *NM* *PIC*
G New -- 9/10/2010, 10:27 pm
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
Dave Gentry -- 9/10/2010, 9:21 pm
You forgot the best option...
Brian Nystrom -- 9/11/2010, 10:49 am
Re: You forgot the best option...
Kudzu -- 9/11/2010, 11:42 am
Re: You forgot the best option...
Brian Nystrom -- 9/11/2010, 11:54 am
Re: You forgot the best option...
Kudzu -- 9/11/2010, 3:28 pm
Re: You forgot the best option...
Bill Hamm -- 9/11/2010, 11:29 am
Re: Paddle: Making the long cuts for paddle face
wwfloyd -- 9/10/2010, 8:35 pm