I’ve been fooling around with making oars lately.  Today I got to wet them and
go rowing.

I wasn’t taking photos as the build proceeded, o there’s no real story involved.
Overall length is around 14 foot.  $ oars in a set, and I made a ‘test’ one
which does duty as a spare.  The handle end has an oak core wghich is turned
into the handle, and the shaft has an ash face and cedar box section with 9mm
walls.  The final photo shows the white ash running to the end of the blades and
cedar blades glued ech side.

I’m pleased (and relieved) to say that the crew who tried them out were amazed
at the light weight.  The locks are an intriguing design, may need a little
tuning, but they fir the criteria of ‘no metal locks’ and look sort of
traditional.

Apart from the resawing of material to provide the 9mm walls, everything was
done by some volunteers who knew nothing about working wood, using hand planes
and hand saws.   They’re off to the World Championships next month, so I hope
they get some practice in.

and to prove it 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/uoMNfgTip2XcXvSu5 


The pic of the boat isn’t one of ours, but it shows the class in action.


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman galoot
on The North-East coast.

On 17/06/2019 5:15 am, yorkshireman@y... wrote:
> I’ve been fooling around with making oars lately.

The first and second images demonstrate the proof of the adage that you 
can never have too many clamps!

A very nice looking set of oars, but as is Ed, I'm curious about the locks.

Regards,

Tony B
Hobart, Tasmania

Thanks for sharing, very interesting.



Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S10.


-------- Original message --------
From: yorkshireman@y...
Date: 6/16/19 15:17 (GMT-05:00)
To: porch 
Subject: [OldTools] Making Oars


I’ve been fooling around with making oars lately.  Today I got to wet them and
go rowing.

I wasn’t taking photos as the build proceeded, o there’s no real story involved.
Overall length is around 14 foot.  $ oars in a set, and I made a ‘test’ one
which does duty as a spare.  The handle end has an oak core wghich is turned
into the handle, and the shaft has an ash face and cedar box section with 9mm
walls.  The final photo shows the white ash running to the end of the blades and
cedar blades glued ech side.

I’m pleased (and relieved) to say that the crew who tried them out were amazed
at the light weight.  The locks are an intriguing design, may need a little
tuning, but they fir the criteria of ‘no metal locks’ and look sort of
traditional.

Apart from the resawing of material to provide the 9mm walls, everything was
done by some volunteers who knew nothing about working wood, using hand planes
and hand saws.   They’re off to the World Championships next month, so I hope
they get some practice in.

and to prove it

https://photos.app.goo.gl/uoMNfgTip2XcXvSu5


The pic of the boat isn’t one of ours, but it shows the class in action.


Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman galoot
on The North-East coast.


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