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Ultra High Density Polyethylene (UHMW) might work, but as you said it might be too slippery. Polyurethane is (or can be) a bit softer, allowing it to grip better, and it's as good as or better than UHMW for abrasion resistance. But the hammer faces are cheap and easily swapped; one could buy...

Polyurethane is one of the most abrasion resistant materials out there. It comes in formulations from super soft (think pencil eraser) to verye hard. Obviously the harder formulations will be more durable. For a pole you'd probably want medium or medium-hard. Yes, it's sacrificial, but...

How about boring the end of the pole and epoxying in a threaded insert, then screw in a polyurethane hammer face? Perhaps a metal band around the outside to reinforce where it's bored for the insert.

What is the reason to use varnish over epoxy?

Exactly. What I meant was, if there is some amount of mean camber (front face different from the back face), then it becomes a one sided paddle (like the bent shaft paddles you mentioned). You wouldn't palm roll such a paddle and it wouldn't behave well during slicing, but it could give you...

This is an interesting discussion, coming from an aerodynamics background with my first ever homemade paddle roughed out and waiting for my return to the cabin to finish it. In aircraft wing design, "camber" usually refers to the mean line curvature, which is the average of the upper and lower...

Those old sliding globe lanterns were much improved with the optional oil burning insert which replaces the candle, dunno if they're still available? I have three similar lamps: An Early Winters brass lamp like the above but with the oil insert, a similar aluminum one with the candle, and (the...

YouTube is if you want to share your video with the world, anybody can find it (unless you make it private). Google drive and OneDrive are for when you want a personal backup, or sharing only with those you send a link to.

After getting frustrated with GoPro's awful software I got a couple of Akaso cameras for flying videos, I'm pretty happy with them.

TLDR: With a temperature drop from 70°F to 20°, a 16' Royalex hull wants to shrink over 3/8" but a wood gunwale only wants to shrink less than 1/32". This mismatch causes a lot of stress between the two. As @gumpus said it's the difference in the coefficients of thermal expansion, not the...

When I did my ash gunwales I approached it a bit differently. Our sawmill can only handle boards up to about 9' or so, so that's what I had to work with (I needed 16'). I started by picking a straight grained piece from a stack of stickered planks that had been milled the previous year, it...

This is not correct; a starter solenoid is simply a high current relay, used because the keyed starter switch is too small to handle the starting current. It also means the heavy cables don't have to go back into the passenger compartment where the key switch is. The solenoid simply connects...

FWIW, some wood airplane propellers (yes, they're still made and used) have cast in place polyurethane leading edges for abrasion protection. I don't know the exact process used; depending on the hardness used urethane is very difficult to shape after it's cured but it's much more abrasion...

Does paddling with your lover to a tiny island and getting frisky there count?

Not only in the deep woods... we've had quite a bit of trouble with bears in our camp community (about 60 cabins) in southern NY, only about 30 miles from NYC. Mostly they just pass through, once a week on average, but a couple of years ago there were numerous incidents of bears trying to get...

"We lock the front door when we go out so folks will know we're out, but we leave the back door unlocked in case somebody needs to get in."

I haven't used a tent for years, except for privacy in a group setting. For wilderness camping, it's a bivy sack and a ground cloth. If I'm expecting rain I'll bring a light tarp. If there's unexpected rain I just pull the bivy over my head and go back to sleep. I sometimes bring a hammock...

Paddle naked and use sex wax? :ROFLMAO: Ok, paddling naked isn't required... but "Sex Wax" is a real product, a sticky wax used by surfers to not slide off their surfboards. I have no idea if it would be useful for paddling. It's not really used for sex... I think...

I was just about to post the same one. I've had mine for years, 30 at least, don't even remember where I got it, I'm still using it.

That stuff is vinyl, only good up to 200°F... not even boiling water temperature, not what you want for a cook pot. If you can spread the wire handles to get them off the pot, you might be able to slip some silicone tubing over them, then reassemble. Or use some self fusing silicone "rescue...