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Re: Paddle strength?
By:Brian Nystrom
Date: 4/5/2001, 11:58 am
In Response To: Re: Paddle strength? (Rob Macks)

: The hollow core will make your paddle stiff like a pipe.

This is only true if you increase the diameter of the loom. A solid rod is always stiffer than a tube of the same diameter and material.

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Paddle strength?
risto -- 4/3/2001, 10:02 am
Re: Paddle strength?
Tony -- 4/5/2001, 2:16 pm
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bob -- 4/3/2001, 9:20 pm
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Bruce Schultz -- 4/5/2001, 10:00 am
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David Dick -- 4/5/2001, 7:10 pm
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Mike Hanks -- 4/3/2001, 11:49 am
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risto -- 4/4/2001, 11:49 am
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Rob Macks -- 4/3/2001, 12:21 pm
Re: Paddle strength?
risto -- 4/4/2001, 12:08 pm
Re: Paddle strength?
Rob Macks -- 4/4/2001, 3:55 pm
Re: Paddle strength?
Brian Nystrom -- 4/5/2001, 11:58 am
Re: Paddle strength?
risto -- 4/5/2001, 11:20 am
Re: Paddle strength?
Jack -- 4/3/2001, 1:30 pm
Light Greenland paddles
Brian Nystrom -- 4/3/2001, 12:09 pm
Re: Light Greenland paddles
Kent LeBoutillier -- 4/6/2001, 6:13 am
Re: Light Greenland paddles
Brian Nystrom -- 4/6/2001, 11:51 am
Re: Paddle strength?
Lee Gardner -- 4/3/2001, 10:59 am
Re: Paddle strength?
risto -- 4/3/2001, 11:20 am
Re: Paddle strength?
Lee Gardner -- 4/4/2001, 2:35 pm
Re: Paddle strength?
Jack -- 4/3/2001, 10:19 am
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James Neely -- 4/3/2001, 1:03 pm
Re: Paddle strength?
David Dick -- 4/4/2001, 7:36 am
Re: Paddle strength?
risto -- 4/3/2001, 10:49 am
Re: Paddle strength?
Jack -- 4/3/2001, 10:56 am