There is always something left over after making a Greenland paddle.
If you start out with a 2x4 at some stage you have to cut out the paddle shape leaving you with 2 offcuts, then your carve the paddle leaving lots of cedar wood shavings.
After a paddle day making 8 or 10 paddles I am left with about 20 offcuts and they are not too useful.
Think again, there is a nice bit of wood in the middle and a thinner piece tapering to the end.
The middle pieces can be glued together and used for all sorts of stuff, like this fish.{not yet finished}It could be used as a breadboard.
The longer pieces were standing around for a while and then my son Eli decided to grow tomatoes.
He wanted them in a planter which we didnt have.
2 comments:
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Nice article Steve. Like yourself, I am always looking for fun little projects for using up the extra pieces of wood from my own Greenland Paddles. And some of the little projects turn out to be a lot of fun in themselves.
Thanks for writing this!
Cheers...Joe O'
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