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Re: Paddle: favorite glue for paddle layup *PIC*
By:Kurt Maurer
Date: 8/13/2010, 10:21 am

I've made a few Greenland paddles and single blade canoe paddles, plus just about everything else you can imagine, with Titebond II and have yet to experience a hiccup. I want to make a Euro paddle one of these days, but never get around to it because I hate using them.

http://mysite.verizon.net/NGC704/greenlandpaddle/
http://mysite.verizon.net/NGC704/paddles/

: I've used epoxy with good results. I laminated layers of douglas
: fir for the loom, and then alternating layers of fir and white
: pine for the paddle faces, with cherry in the edges, and maple
: and purpleheart on the tips. I used a tilted band saw to rough
: out the dihedral curves while the glueups were still two
: longitudinal symmetric mirror image half paddles. Then I glued
: them together and finished it up with convex and flat
: spokeshaves.

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Paddle: favorite glue for paddle layup
John lasky -- 8/13/2010, 9:29 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/14/2010, 1:30 am
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Fred -- 8/13/2010, 2:25 pm
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Brian Nystrom -- 8/13/2010, 6:04 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 8/13/2010, 8:36 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 8/13/2010, 11:47 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/14/2010, 1:35 am
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Charlie -- 8/13/2010, 11:35 am
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Will N to Go -- 8/13/2010, 1:03 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 8/13/2010, 12:18 pm
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Dean -- 8/13/2010, 10:05 am
Re: Paddle: favorite glue for paddle layup *PIC*
Kurt Maurer -- 8/13/2010, 10:21 am
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Kudzu -- 8/13/2010, 9:59 am