Making a GREENLAND PADDLE - paddle build 

Hey Jason, I really appreciate that you use handplanes, spokeshaves etc. I am fine with other people working with power-tools etc., but I also prefer to do it the "silent" way! 🙂 Greetings from Vienna, Austria.

Hey Jason, nice job. From my perspective there is nothing more gratifying than the rhythm and action of a well sharpened hand plane making fine, even curls on the floor.

Looks great!

Very nice work. I made a Greenland paddle 5 years ago, love using it.

Thanks so much. I'm going to give it a try! Oh and subscribe of course.

Nice build! If you end up making an other one, I would recommend you make the edges of the blade much thinner and sharper. The better the blade cuts through the water the better. I usually aim to make mine just 2-2.5mm radius all along the blade, even around the tip.

Ji Jason, after buying my first Greenland paddle I got into this crazy idea of venturing into making one myself. Among the many video tutorials on RU-vid, yours is the best, especially regarding the sizing and marking part! Where I live, however, there's no cedar, but only spruce, fir or larch. Do you think they'd be ok?

Nice build. Just an fyi you can get a spare blade for one of your two planes grind it to a curve create a scrub blade. Set the frog back to open up the throat and hog off loads of wood quickly. 4 hour would be more like 1. Use the current blade once you get near the lines. I use hand tools almost exclusively. Once i found the scrub blade idea jobs are so much quicker.

Hey Jason thanks for the video, it helps a lot! I'm currently working on a paddle from Douglas fir which is a bit heavier than I'd like but I think it will work out. The next step is shaping the blades to the octagons but when I weighed it earlier today It was still at 1,6 Kg. I wondered if you know what weight can be expected at this step or how much lighter a paddle will get once the oval shape of the paddle is established. I don't need an incredibly light paddle since Its more like a practice but staying below 1Kg would be nice. It would be awesome if you could help me judge what I can expect from a Douglas fir paddle :)

Hi from Australia. What I can't work out is the loom is elliptical. Is the wider dimension of that shape parallel to the wide plane of the blade, or 90 degrees to the wide plane? Any help from anyone, please.