Kayak Building

I seem to be restoring many items these days. Now I inherited two pine? canoe paddles, one was in OK shape, delamination hinting to happen, the other with a busted blade. I repaired both. Used an old board I found laying around to fix the busted blade.

hi all

i use minicell foam for kayak seats. I used to have som Red Devil dragon skin, but not any more. 

I have been looking high and low fir this product with no success. 

Is it still made? Does anyone have a link where i could find some?

thanks

jack

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I normally use these shop towels, soaked with acetone, to wipe dust off any project created using marine rated epoxy...couldn't do this with the Brightside one part epoxy paint that I used to paint my canoe...Brightside easily dissolves in acetone. So when I sanded between coats (did 2 coats) I used the Shop Towels without acetone.

What do you call it when you get epoxy in your hair? A Dookey Doo.

What do you call it when you get epoxy in your hair? A Dookey Doo.

Worked on the olde QuickSilver ll canoe today. Sanded off the chalky gel coat down to stuff unaffected by UV exposure, was left with a scratchy surface for great epoxy mechanical attachment, then gave it a decent coat of epoxy. Mistake #1 and only #1: mixed a 1-liter batch of epoxy to avoid mixing several small batches. Worked great for 1/2 of the canoe...and then things got real hot...forgot why it's very important to use only small batches of epoxy. 

Hello

I'm working on my second Greenland paddle, and that will be my first cedar one. I made a practice one out of white wood. I pretty much had zero wood working experience so I wanted some cheap wood.

It turned out better than expected but I can see that the tips will get chewed up. I know that I can use hardwood as tips so I bought some oak Tightbond 3.

I became unemployed by choice (kinda sorta) today...long story. Headed off to the government offices to do some paperwork, got that done, stopped at a restaurant to buy a delicious donair, left and headed to the park to eat it and read about Doug Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer. I felt famished and wanted to devour the donair even before I got to the park. Got to the park, parked my car and while I was parking the car, saw a very tired, withdrawn, thin homeless man, carrying empty plastic bags, slowly making his way to a park bench to rest.