I made a 2 piece native paddle using a stainless steel ferrul from Sawyer. works great and is plenty strong and costs about $ 20 from Pygmy.

Pauli

: Good morning everyone, very wet here in Upstate NY.

: Ive carved out 3 paddles so far 2 full size GP and a storm.

: Im wanting to do another paddle and get a real good blade cross
: section( my storm came out good) my other two paddles , well, my
: diamond cross section ended up sort of low profile /rounded.

: I now have some different hand tools (spoke shaves and drawknife) I
: couldnt get good diamonds with a small block plane but
: spokeshave and draw knife worked well for me.

: Putting my paddle in my honda element is a tight fit as it goes the
: whole interior length and butts up against my main stereo
: speaker, it also sits on my cup holder between the seats.

: so 1) make the new paddle 2 piece (Glass or carbon Ferrull??)

: 2) keep one piece and tie on roof rack with boats?

: many thanks

: "John"