Planing some spalted maple and walnut offcuts from ripping to make the shaft

strips are planed and are ready to be glued together

clamped

ran some scrap walnut and quartersawn zebrawood through the table saw to get some thin strips.  The zebrawood is an offcut and I don't remember what the walnut was for.  I think I was attempting to make a small rocking crib and I failed and gave up.

lined up and glued

glueing together the 2 pieces so the pattern is long enough to run the length of the paddle.  Once dry I ran it through the tablesaw to get several thin strips.  I don't have a jig for that so after a couple failed attempts I got a couple usable strips. 

gluing together the final pattern for the quartersawn zebrawood and walnut

This will be the blade of the paddle.  Not pictured is the other side of this flatsawn zebrawood which has a large crack running from one end to the other.  So this piece was cut off of a larger board and thrown in the scrap bin.

Resawn and it makes a beautiful pattern for a paddle blade.  You can see the crack slightly on the top board.

the crack ending up growing the next day somehow and the board was almost entirely cracked in half.  So I had to pour some epoxy in between and over the crack and leave it overnight.

glueing the pattern to the flatsawn zebrawood

I originally wanted to bookmatch the two pieces with the light edges in the center.  However, I ran the board on the left through the tablesaw to get a flat edge and it chipped pretty bad.  So heres the new setup!

paddle glued up and im ready to start flattening with my plane and a ROS.

front done

back done

making a grip with the router table. 

laying resin down, then fiberglass and then resin again.  no pictures of fiberglassing bc my hands were messy and I couldn't hold a camera

posing in the sun next to my other project

sanding finger grooves in the handle.  No other progress pics.  What I did was cut off the excess length of the shaft and glued two pieces onto the sides of the new end of the shaft to make the handle.