I have enjoyed all the discussion and guidance for paddle building on this board. I've made several very nice paddles by now and would like to offer an analysis of my results at www.geocities.com/gwchitty . I guess the next step is building a kayak, but after building each paddle I swear off any more epoxy work. Then a month or so later I start thinking of improvements and I'm making another paddle. I can only imagine the stack of kayaks I will end up with in my basement.