It's nice to see the care a real person puts into the processes. I have a good number of hand formed, hand shaped paddles...even built my own from a tree once (crude and effective but no art or soul to it) My office has 2 custom paddles my dad had made in upper state New York (Blackburn's) and I have a favorite ash beavertail from Dri-ki that I got in 2011. It was a custom made length (at the time they did that) and it can literally transport me slipping my canoe thru the water with grace and beauty. I have a Bending branches Expedition Plus that is as beautiful in its function as the Glock that has accompanied me ever day for a couple decades. They both are tough, more capable than I, and require only a minimum to keep up. I don't own a Shaw and Tenny... but I can see its gonna bring a lot of joy to its future owner.
It's the tool that dictates the paddle shape, looks fun for one or two paddles but I bet it gets old fast. bet a robot arm could be programmed to do it or part of it might save the company someday. very skillful work. glad to have seen the craftsmanship in a video. who knows maybe someday I will buy and visit. It could happen. you have no idea how much I respect old-world craftsmanship. Even the sanding drum was made by a person. If you don't mind me asking what RPM is being used here?
because the hand power has to overcome the friction of the drum sander, all of the wood removed is removed by the power of the hand and not the motion of the drum. this meets the definition of a handmade paddle. the hand-arm combination has to insert power equal to that required to remove the wood. the paddle blank might not meet the definition of hand made but it was cut freehand and when that happens freehand cuts are not described as machine-made. just as one would call a pot as being hand-thrown even though it was made on a pedal machine.
I take issue with the use of 'handmade' in this context. If this is handmade, what do you call the process of chopping down a tree and carving a paddle without power tools? There are obviously degrees of handmade, and virtually all paddles are touched by hands (few are CNC machined), but this does not make all paddles handmade in my mind. There's no doubt in my mind that S&T make fine paddles. However, calling them handmade is a bit of a stretch.
If you're going by this standard for handmade items nowadays then you're not gunna find anything mate, and what you do find is going to be crazy expensive for the sheer amount of time that has to be put into cutting down the tree, milling and drying the timber, you're just not going to find it. I sell carving that are entirely handmade - I don't use any power tools from the point of a block of wood to the finished product but all of that wood has been chopped down with machines and then dried in a kiln. I also make handmade furniture with the use of mostly powertools and some (non powered) hand tools. I would still consider them to be hand made as at every point along the way I am using my hands to operate the tools - I don't use CNC routers or laser engravers. There are some key words that make a difference in my opinion, if someone was to use the words 'hand carved' to describe something that they have used power tools to make I would take issue as the 'carved' implies using only knives, chisels and gouges; 'handmade' on the other hand I would say means without a computer to aid them
@@awesomenesschanel Exactly! Computer or machine made means you can push a button and it does some or all of the process for you. Hand made does not mean it excludes power tools. Power tools that are run by hand, not a machine or a computer. Hence this is 100% handmade.
It's nice to see the care a real person puts into the processes. I have a good number of hand formed, hand shaped paddles...even built my own from a tree once (crude and effective but no art or soul to it)
My office has 2 custom paddles my dad had made in upper state New York (Blackburn's) and I have a favorite ash beavertail from Dri-ki that I got in 2011. It was a custom made length (at the time they did that) and it can literally transport me slipping my canoe thru the water with grace and beauty.
I have a Bending branches Expedition Plus that is as beautiful in its function as the Glock that has accompanied me ever day for a couple decades. They both are tough, more capable than I, and require only a minimum to keep up.
I don't own a Shaw and Tenny... but I can see its gonna bring a lot of joy to its future owner.
Looks like a really nice paddle
Omg ,…….. my J stroke needs one of these SOooooo badly 😅
I wish I had a sanding drum like that! I’ll have to put it on my build list!
I couldn't find that sander at Home Depot...
Very nice. What size belt is that?
It's the tool that dictates the paddle shape, looks fun for one or two paddles but I bet it gets old fast. bet a robot arm could be programmed to do it or part of it might save the company someday. very skillful work. glad to have seen the craftsmanship in a video. who knows maybe someday I will buy and visit. It could happen. you have no idea how much I respect old-world craftsmanship. Even the sanding drum was made by a person. If you don't mind me asking what RPM is being used here?
because the hand power has to overcome the friction of the drum sander, all of the wood removed is removed by the power of the hand and not the motion of the drum. this meets the definition of a handmade paddle. the hand-arm combination has to insert power equal to that required to remove the wood. the paddle blank might not meet the definition of hand made but it was cut freehand and when that happens freehand cuts are not described as machine-made. just as one would call a pot as being hand-thrown even though it was made on a pedal machine.
No way is that giant sanding drum osha approved. Wearing long sleeves and gloves, just asking to get pulled in.
That is first thing I thought, having worked around industrial machines in the past.
I take issue with the use of 'handmade' in this context. If this is handmade, what do you call the process of chopping down a tree and carving a paddle without power tools? There are obviously degrees of handmade, and virtually all paddles are touched by hands (few are CNC machined), but this does not make all paddles handmade in my mind. There's no doubt in my mind that S&T make fine paddles. However, calling them handmade is a bit of a stretch.
If you're going by this standard for handmade items nowadays then you're not gunna find anything mate, and what you do find is going to be crazy expensive for the sheer amount of time that has to be put into cutting down the tree, milling and drying the timber, you're just not going to find it. I sell carving that are entirely handmade - I don't use any power tools from the point of a block of wood to the finished product but all of that wood has been chopped down with machines and then dried in a kiln. I also make handmade furniture with the use of mostly powertools and some (non powered) hand tools. I would still consider them to be hand made as at every point along the way I am using my hands to operate the tools - I don't use CNC routers or laser engravers.
There are some key words that make a difference in my opinion, if someone was to use the words 'hand carved' to describe something that they have used power tools to make I would take issue as the 'carved' implies using only knives, chisels and gouges; 'handmade' on the other hand I would say means without a computer to aid them
100% HANDMADE
@@awesomenesschanel Exactly! Computer or machine made means you can push a button and it does some or all of the process for you. Hand made does not mean it excludes power tools. Power tools that are run by hand, not a machine or a computer. Hence this is 100% handmade.