Subject: RE: [baidarka] Carving Feathered Paddles
From: Peter A. Chopelas (pac@premier1.net)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 11:22:11 EDT
Mel wrote:
> > I haven't tried it, but I think it would be fairly simple to use a
> > commercial ferrule in the loom area to feather the blades.
>
and:
> > What I am
> > laboring over is how to make a 4 piece with reliable joints that don't
> > have
> > splinters or sharp parts and don't wobble. I am convinced that it is
> > possible, just haven't got there yet though.
>
Marian wrote:
>
> The solutions might or might not fit your intended paddle, Mel. But I
strongly believe a four piece greenlandic paddle is always a weak
compromise in handling and performance.
>
I would suspect you could not make a suitable 4 piece Greenland paddle very
practical because you would have to break the blades somewhere in the
middle. Custom blade shaped ferrules would be difficult, heavy and
expensive to have made. Not very practical. If you reduce the blade
length to allow a conventional ferrule to work you do not end up with a
native paddle design.
I suspect you could make a three piece Greenland paddle work pretty well,
but the ferrules would end up about where your hands would go. With
careful design and perhaps warping the outside of the ferrules with bicycle
handle bar tape it could make a suitable take-down paddle. Something I had
been thinking about.
Peter
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