[yesterday’s run: 5 miles ]
I picked up my new spoke shave at the Military Hardware store today. Have used it a bit on the oars for the boat. It works real slick.
I have a couple of very nice planes which were given to me by my father-in-law when my wife and I were first married. I used one of those extensively on this oars project.
The general plan was to take a 1×6 board and cut out an oar shape. Then with the scraps left over I glued another thickness of material on each side of the shaft part. I then used the tablesaw to trim down the total thickness to something around 1-5/8 inches.
After that it was plane and shave down to around 1-1/2 inches for the shaft and flattening out of the blades. I also trimmed down the handle part to a diameter of about 1 inch.
I have some paint on one after doing a bit of sanding. I need to do some more work on the other then finish the painting. They aren’t real high craftsmanship. But I hope to put them in the water and to good use.
I need to get the oar-lock situation worked out and mount a couple of oar-lock receptacles in the boat. The boat looks like it used to have such, but only one of 4 remains and the rest are empty rivet holes. Why anyone would want to take out those fittings is beyond me. I have some nice wood, thought I would just try to drill a straight vertical hole in a small block and mount the block in the boat and see if I could use that. The oar-locks themselves I plan to buy.
Oh, a spoke shave is a plane blade in a central fitting with two ear-like handles, one on each side. It will let you shave down convex surfaces. I think with the right kind of blade you could also do spoon-type (concave) surfaces too. But I’m using it mostly on the oar shafts and the transition between shaft and blade.