Subject: Re: baidarka Shaping paddles (- cheating)
From: Greg Stamer (gstamer@magicnet.net)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 16:35:07 EST
At 07:17 PM 1/28/01 GMT, you wrote:
>Surely its... They can have 'em. Do they use them?
>So how does the Greenlander and Inuit of today make a paddle?
The first time that I stepped through the door of the small Nuuk
(Greenland) kayak club's "kayak factory" last July, I was surprised at the
sight of someone using a hand power-planer to shape a new Greenland paddle.
The builder said that he was in a hurry to build a number of children's
paddles for the (2000) Kayak Championship. The kayak workshop also had
handtools of all descriptions hanging on the walls including a number of
bowsaws and spokeshaves. I saw about ten paddles at the training camp and
championship that had noticeable toolmarks, and appeared to have been
finished with a knife. They were not sanded and no finish was applied.
When Maligiaq Padilla visited me in Florida and had to build a new paddle
after his were damaged in transport, he opted to have the blank rough-sawn
on a band saw. After this he used a #4 (smoothing) plane, spokeshaves and
rasps to complete the paddle. He did not use the belt or disk sander. He
also did not choose to use a crooked knife and mentioned that at some point
he wanted to learn how to use the traditional tools (adze, crooked knife,
etc).
Greg Stamer
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