Woles

Mixed Laminated Blanks

A little while ago, I decided to put the the loads of large cutoff scraps littering the locker room floor to good use and came up with a bunch of combinations for various laminated blanks. After another visit to The Carpenter's square I shaped this remaining blanks to size. Here's a before and after shot


Glued up scraps before


Specific paddle shapes emerge
The designs are (left to right):

• Narrow Ottertail with Decorative Maliseet Grip (Poplar/Cherry/Birch)
  
• Western Cree with square mushroom grip (Poplar/Birch)
  
• Large Ottertail with straight Maliseet grip (Cherry/Basswood)
  
• Voyageur with tripper grip (Maple/Cherry)
  
• Algonquin blade with Adirondack grip (Cherry/Basswood/Walnut)
  
• Reshaped Beothuk with bobble grip (Birch/Cherry)
  
• King Island Inuit (Cherry/Basswood/Walnut)
  
• Mini Maliseet (Poplar/Walnut)
  
• White Water with Battenkill grip (Maple/Walnut)

I had also decided to continue using up some of the smaller scraps to do some craftwork...basically cutting out some spoons, forks, spatulas, wooden blocks, knife handles, mini-paddles, and any other stuff to whittle out this summer. I brought a bucket full of these scraps and ended up with quite chache of goodies for intended projects down for down the road. At home, I layed out the inventory on the floor of my den and took a shot (with my wife's feet sticking into the shot).


Buckets of scraps; Inventory laid out on the floor

I guess they'll be plenty more posting on the blog to come.