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Re: Paddle: Glassing paddle
By:Jay
Date: 2/23/2015, 7:46 am
In Response To: Re: Paddle: Glassing paddle (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

Thanks as always for advice. My blade tapers to 3/16 with the concave side flat and the edge of the back side (convex side) rounded over. I already applied a sealer coat of epoxy to the whole thing, but I guess I could sand it down further to 1/8. It's pretty light already since I did the hollow shaft by routing it out before assembly. Not sure it will make that much difference. I will be using it in a lake (not ocean or river) and other than an occasional inadvertent bump I would not expect much contact with rocks. I was thinking of just a bead of thickened epoxy at the edge, as suggested by one of the other posters here. For this application do you think that would be enough? When I have tried to work with strands of glass in the kayak construction it became a stringy, wispy mess that stuck to my gloves and was very difficult to lay flat. I think the cord idea sounds great but esthetically I don't want to see anything other than wood. Is there a way to twist the fibers together or somehow make a string out of it which would be easier to apply? Thanks again. By the way, here are a couple of pics of my boat. (First and probably only!)
Jay

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Paddle: Glassing paddle
Jay Stallman -- 2/20/2015, 4:42 pm
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scottbaxter -- 2/20/2015, 10:46 pm
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Jay Stallman -- 2/21/2015, 6:13 am
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scottbaxter -- 2/21/2015, 8:33 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/21/2015, 10:15 am
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Jay Stallman -- 2/21/2015, 1:03 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 2/21/2015, 4:11 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/21/2015, 7:05 pm
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Jay -- 2/23/2015, 7:46 am
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Jay -- 2/23/2015, 7:50 am
Re: Paddle: Glassing paddle *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 2/23/2015, 11:57 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 2/23/2015, 12:01 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/24/2015, 2:38 am
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Jay -- 2/24/2015, 11:15 pm
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scottbaxter -- 2/24/2015, 11:38 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/25/2015, 12:56 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/25/2015, 1:12 am
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Jay Stallman -- 2/25/2015, 6:11 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/25/2015, 1:55 pm
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Jay -- 2/25/2015, 2:06 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 2/26/2015, 12:09 am
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Jay Stallman -- 2/26/2015, 7:23 am
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Etienne Muller -- 2/26/2015, 9:00 am
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Jay -- 3/1/2015, 6:01 am
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Etienne Muller -- 3/1/2015, 8:28 am
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Jay -- 3/1/2015, 9:21 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/1/2015, 9:29 am
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Jay -- 3/1/2015, 10:11 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 3/2/2015, 12:05 am
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Roy Martin -- 3/2/2015, 6:02 am
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Jay Stallman -- 3/2/2015, 7:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/3/2015, 1:28 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/3/2015, 2:22 am
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Jay Stallman -- 3/3/2015, 8:38 am
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Bill Hamm -- 3/3/2015, 9:40 am
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Jay Stallman -- 3/3/2015, 12:51 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 3/2/2015, 1:23 am
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Jay Stallman -- 3/2/2015, 7:03 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 3/14/2015, 4:46 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 2/25/2015, 4:58 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/26/2015, 12:43 am