: 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?

Hi Stephen,
I used a hand saw for all the major cuts on mine. Slower than power tools but easier to stop if it gets iffy. The taper from blade center to the blade edges was done with a spokeshave. And just about everywhere else, too. Probably about 8 hours of actual 'work' over a few days. I wasn't in a rush.

I think a jigsaw blade woud be too short to do the face cuts.

Mike Savage
South West Cork