[yesterday’s run: 5 miles ]<\/p>\n
I picked up my new spoke shave at the Military Hardware store today.\u00a0 Have used it a bit on the oars for the boat.\u00a0 It works real slick.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 I used one of those extensively on this oars project.<\/p>\n
The general plan was to take a 1×6 board and cut out an oar shape.\u00a0 Then with the scraps left over I glued another thickness of material on each side of the shaft part.\u00a0 I then used the tablesaw to trim down the total thickness to something around 1-5\/8 inches.<\/p>\n
After that it was plane and shave down to around 1-1\/2 inches for the shaft and flattening out of the blades.\u00a0 I also trimmed down the handle part to a diameter of about 1 inch.<\/p>\n
I have some paint on one after doing a bit of sanding.\u00a0 I need to do some more work on the other then finish the painting.\u00a0 They aren’t real high craftsmanship.\u00a0 But I hope to put them in the water and to good use.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Why anyone would want to take out those fittings is beyond me.\u00a0 I have some nice wood, thought I would just try to drill a straight\u00a0 vertical hole in a small block and mount the block in the boat\u00a0 and see if I could use that.\u00a0 The oar-locks themselves I plan to buy.<\/p>\n
Oh, a spoke shave is a plane blade in a central fitting with two ear-like handles, one on each side.\u00a0 It will let you shave down convex surfaces.\u00a0 I think with the right kind of blade you could also do spoon-type (concave) surfaces too.\u00a0 But I’m using it mostly on the oar shafts and the transition between shaft and blade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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