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Step 4Laminate the Blank
I got some heavy tropical hardwood floorboards for cheap from the Habitat for Humanity "Re Store". I sawed them into proper shaped slats to assemble into an oar.
The tongue-and-groove and other odd floorboard grooves made it a tricky task.
I laid them together in the proper order.
Then came the tricky part.
I slathered the mating surfaces with epoxy thickened with white flour.
I didn't have proper clamps so I tied the bundle of slimy sticks together with bicycle innertube. I lashed a stick across the blade so the whole thing wouldn't just fly apart.
I shoved some wedges under the innertube bindings here and there to shove the laminations into place and keep them from sliding to one side.
I kept checking to see that the assembly hadn't gone wrong. I moved and unbent it to make sure the handle would cure straight.
The tongue-and-groove and other odd floorboard grooves made it a tricky task.
I laid them together in the proper order.
Then came the tricky part.
I slathered the mating surfaces with epoxy thickened with white flour.
I didn't have proper clamps so I tied the bundle of slimy sticks together with bicycle innertube. I lashed a stick across the blade so the whole thing wouldn't just fly apart.
I shoved some wedges under the innertube bindings here and there to shove the laminations into place and keep them from sliding to one side.
I kept checking to see that the assembly hadn't gone wrong. I moved and unbent it to make sure the handle would cure straight.
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