My FAVORITE woodworking project: A DOUBLE PADDLE

This video is a free excerpt from the course "Building the Fiddlehead Canoe" at Small Boat School.
The Fiddlehead Canoe, including the double paddle featured in this video, is designed by Harry Bryan. The plans are reproduced with permission.
According to Harry, the double paddle is heavily influenced by the double paddle in L. Francis Herreshoff's "Sensible Cruising Designs".
Printed plans can be purchased at www.harrybryan.com or when signing up to the Fiddlehead Canoe course at Small Boat School.
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At Small Boat School, I teach a comprehensive online boatbuilding course, which covers everything you need to know to build a wooden boat: Setting up a workshop. Sourcing tools and suitable wood. Sharpening and using your tools. Reading boat plans. Making plank patterns (spiling). Planking the boat. Steam bending. Fitting the boat out with decking, coaming, guards, hatches ... and every other little detail that's a part of the building process.
Personal support is a central part of Small Boat School. This will ensure that you avoid the usual pitfalls of the first-time boatbuilder while keeping your learning curve as steep as possible.
Please go to www.smallboatschool.com for more information.
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0:00 Introduction
01:00 Wood selection
01:52 Blade patterns
03:27 Cutting the edge profile
04:12 Glueing up the blades
05:01 Shaping the edge profile
06:45 Cutting the face profile of the blade
07:59 Shaping the convex side of the blade
09:28 Preparing the scarf joint
10:19 Right hand vs. left hand control
11:01 Cutting and glueing the scarf joint
12:20 Making an eight siding gauge (spar gauge)
14:46 Eight-siding and rounding the shaft
16:12 Fairing the blade into the shaft
17:44 Sanding
18:30 Weighing the paddle
18:43 Bending the copper tips
19:41 Epoxying and riveting the copper tips
20:47 Finishing the copper tips
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[@ianmargo2513]

Thanks for making such a complete and clear video, very well done

[@chrisleggatt3240]

Thankyou, I find your care and attention to detail infectious, and your videos calming and inspiring.

[@SmallBoatSchool]

Thanks a lot, Chris. I'm glad you like it. It seems the pace on KZbin (and media in general) is steadily increasing, so I try to stay slow. :-D

[@lbdrummer3]

Fantastic video, so satisfying watching the wood chips fly. I have a store bought canoe paddle that has been on every canoe trip I have taken over the last 15 years. Putting the copper end on it would solve a splitting issue I have been chasing for a while now. The 7-10 tool is brilliant too. Thanks for putting this out there for all of us!

[@SmallBoatSchool]

Thanks for watching - and thanks a lot for your kind feedback! :-)