In this video I explain how I made my paddles for the cedar strip canoe I just built.

Steps
1. Cut your strips - I cut my strips to 1 ½” thick and various widths
2. Glue your strips - I used West System epoxy to laminate my strips because I had some left over but I would have been fine using Titebond 3 Wood Glue.
3. Plane down to 1 inch thick - If you don’t have a planer, google a local woodworker in your area and see if they will plane a paddle for $10
4. Draw your blade and handle shape half template - on cardstock, half for symetry
5. Cut it out! - with a bandsaw or a jig saw
6. Round over edges of handle and shaft with router - If you don’t have a router a hand planer or spokeshave work also
7. Smooth the edges and draw the ¼” centered reference gap - See video for the makeshift “centered-reference-gap-making-tool”
8. Draw grid - I spaced the grid lines by about an inch. If you do much more than that you risk chiseling against the grain and gouging out a deep chunk.
9. Mimic grid with circular saw cutting more and more shallow as you approach the shaft - I started at a ¼” deep on the edges and brought the blade of the circular saw up by about a 64th of an inch on each line as I make my way towards the shaft. This creates an even taper from the shaft to the edges.
10. Chisel out the grid pieces - Careful not too deep!!!
11. Sand smooth with belt sander, then orbital sander -
12. Clean up with hand sanding


Wood
Western Red Cedar, Black Walnut, White Ash
This is only to match my canoe. If I were trying to make a performance paddle I would make the whole thing out of Western Red Cedar because it is lightweight.

Dimensions - Do whatever works for you! Go try a couple paddles and take the best qualities from all of them and combine them into yours! My dimensions ended up being...
Length - 59” (or about up to my shoulder)
Thickness - 1”
Width - 1 ¼” at shaft, 7” at blade

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