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Canoe Paddles: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own

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This book combines practical woodworking technique with practical canoe use experience... [It] covers every single aspect of canoe paddle building. -- Sawdust and Shavings Despite the growing interest in making paddles and canoes, it can be difficult to find reliable information on that craft -- except for this book. First published more than a decade ago and having sold 35,000 copies, Canoe Paddles: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own is the ultimate modern guide to the traditional craft for both the how-to beginner and the skilled woodworker. In Canoe Paddles: A Complete Guide to Making Your Own, longtime canoeist and woodworker Graham Warren provides detailed information and guidance to make a canoe paddle that will be used with confidence and cherished for generations. The book is thoroughly illustrated with photographs, line drawings and plans with measurements for: How to make a paddle having a single blade, a bent shaft, or double blades How to protect a paddle with oil or varnish What to look for when test-driving a paddle How to decorate a paddle How to care for and repair a paddle. The authors include an appreciation of the evolution of the paddle plus a special chapter by renowned canoe-buuilding teacher David Gidmark which celebrates paddle-making in the native tradition. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Firefly Books


Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 3, 2001


Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 6


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 56


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.44 x 11 inches


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Buy this book and get to work!
Format: Paperback
I thought the book was great, very informative . What Graham is doing is telling you that there is more than one way to make paddles. You can use mostly power tools, or hand tools. Use what you have or get what you need. Paddle making is a good excuse to get a few new tools.i.e. Lee Valley spoke shaves, etc. Learn how to make half patterns from a table of offsets. Then go to it.Don't get overwhelmed, just get started. You will soon be hearing the song of the spokeshave. Your first paddle will be better than anything you can buy. Use it and you may see things you want to change on the next ones. Keep making paddles. Each gets better and easier. You will build confidence quickly and soon you will be working mostly by sight, Not laying out so much and having much more confidence. Grahams knowledge of paddle making is unsurpassed. This book is worth 3 times its cost. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2016 by woodchip
    • Complete guide to learn how to build canoe paddles
Format: Paperback
Review Image by Alex Phelps
The book is very thorough in the information. Everything you need to make a paddle is laid out here. Excellent instruction book for beginner or more experienced woodworker. Highly recommend if you wish to learn how to build a canoe paddle.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021 by Alex Phelps
    • Definitive
Format: Paperback
If you're interested in making paddles, this can be considered a bible.
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2026 by flounderguts
    • Complete!
Format: Paperback
If you want to make paddles (or things like that... that need to have curves flow into one another), that is THE book. Well explained, many useful techniques to quickly easily achieve a finished product.
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023 by Jose
    • Detailed and clear; not for the beginner woodworker
Format: Paperback
A paddle-making friend with far more experience recommended this book to me as "the bible of paddle-making." While Warren's instructions are detailed and clear, the book is aimed at someone with a fair bit of woodworking experience. He starts with a comparison of various styles and paddles and a bit of history. He takes you through paddlemaking step-by-step, explaining what tools (or substitutes for some tools) you'll need. His fairly evenhanded comparisons of various options (ex: oil or varnish to finish the paddle) and advice on what tools are nice to have, those you cannot do without and shortcuts that he's tried (and their varying results) distill his many years of paddlemaking experience into something useful for the hobbyist. He does this with a good dose of humor.) The book includes a variety of patterns and plans. This is my first book on paddlemaking, and, despite my lack of woodworking experience, I think it will be enough to keep me educated and occupied for quite a while. It's thorough and covers every step of the process, including choosing wood, selecting tools, design, carving, caring for the finished product and repair. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2012 by lellie
    • warm tone and Nice pictures made me dream about the paddles i am ...
Format: Paperback
This Was quite a surprise. Not only was this book very informative and to the point; IT was a pleasure to read. Well written, warm tone and Nice pictures made me dream about the paddles i am toing to make, and made me confident enough to start. Thank you!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2016 by Kim Remi Højklint
    • All You Need To Make A Beautiful Paddle.
Format: Paperback
I think this is the best book you can buy if you want to make your own canoe paddles. It covers the full gambit of many paddle designs, (pros and cons), types of wood to use, single wood paddles, lamminate paddles, grain structure of the woods, glues, finishes, tools to use, (depending on how high or low tech you want to be), literally everything. There is a DVD produced by the author that makes a great companion to this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2011 by Dennis G. Nelson
    • great book on paddle types and how to build them
Format: Paperback
I used the book to build a few paddles and found the book very helpful. The pictures alone are worth the price of admission.
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2021 by Seattleboatguy

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