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kahel reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread Video: HOOP clears portage trails with Silky KATANABOY and BIGBOY saws with
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Silky makes the best pruning saws, in my experience, and in many sizes. I've had a 14.2" curved blade Silky BIGBOY 2000 and a 9.5"... -
kahel reacted to Boatman53's post in the thread Video: HOOP clears portage trails with Silky KATANABOY and BIGBOY saws with Like.
I love those kinds of saw, used a katana big boy to cleat a big cedar that was across a portage right at chest height. Two cuts and it...
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Steve in Idaho replied to the thread Canoe seat replacement parts - Drilling dowel holes.When matching a preexisting opposing hole, I use those insets Boatman pictured above to mark the location. These jigs can be either... -
Steve in Idaho reacted to Marc Ornstein's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
Once the rough cutting is done, it's necessary to refine the shape of the tip, as shown here. This is done by eye, on a stationary belt...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Marc Ornstein's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
Dana, Thanks for that clarification. Seems like we were talking the same language, only with different dialects.
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
Not sure about this analogy, but water tank testing has been done on canoe paddles to compare flat power faces, positively cambered...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Woodpuppy's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
I’m more familiar with “dihedral” referring to birds’ wings. A vulture has a pronounced dihedral, but eagles, falcons, and hawks do not...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
I suspect both "camber" and "dihedral" are words borrowed by the canoe paddle world from the airplane world. Note from @Dana's diagram...
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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...
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Steve in Idaho reacted to Marc Ornstein's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
If I understand all of this correctly, my paddles, by your description, have zero mean camber. With some few exceptions, most skilled...
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This is an interesting discussion, coming from an aerodynamics background with my first ever homemade paddle roughed out and waiting for...
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Tsuga8 reacted to Glenn MacGrady's post in the thread Ai bots threaten the digital canoeing world with Like.
Ain't that the trashy social media truth. I've used Google's AI quite a bit, and some other one that's not ChatGPT. My experience has... -
Steve in Idaho reacted to Marc Ornstein's post in the thread Building Laminated Canoe Paddles with Like.
The material that I use comes like overly large, flat ,shoelace. It's approx. 1/2" wide x 1/4" thick. In a future photo, I'll show it...
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Boatman53 replied to the thread Video: HOOP clears portage trails with Silky KATANABOY and BIGBOY saws.I love those kinds of saw, used a katana big boy to cleat a big cedar that was across a portage right at chest height. Two cuts and it... -
My brother and I ran the Nantahala back in August. We eddied out above the last drop and formulated a plan that had us working left to...