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    Default Laser Strops!

    Ok ok, so not as exciting at the title suggest, but here's a couple of balsa paddle strops I whipped up on the laser cutter that I'm fortunate enough to have access to.

    Drawn up on Illustrator, cut from Kadumu ply, glued together and poly finished.

    Laser cutters rock as you could probably well imagine, they can even raster photos and graphics onto stuff as I've done with my logo. ("TD")

    The balsa area is 80mm x 250mm. The balsa slabs are housed in recessed cut-outs in the paddle so no glue or tape was used.

    Not comparable in effort to the pattern welded steel custom I see freshly posted but I'm happy with how they came out none the less.

    Now to get some CrOx and test them out!

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    Nicely done !
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    +1! Great job, they look brilliant..!

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    My colleagues found it rather amusing I was making 'paddles' - most thought I was into something else entirely...

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    Quote Originally Posted by EisenFaust View Post
    My colleagues found it rather amusing I was making 'paddles' - most thought I was into something else entirely...
    That says more about them than it does about you.
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    They look great.
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    They look like a work of art.

    Does the balsa try to puff up in the middle since it is a press fit?

    I like the idea of being able to switch out the balsa.


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    Cheers!

    Na, the void for the balsa is only minutely smaller than the slabs, pushing them in creates a bit of a friction stay, so theres no real force wanting to bow them. Lapp-able with sandpaper too. Also if you just had the one paddle you could put paste on both sides of the same balsa slab and turn it at will in the frame.

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    Great Looking Strops.

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    Very Nice,
    I ran laser and water jet cutters for 5 years cutting timber, acrylic, brass, aluminium, stainless steel, long before I was into straight razors. It makes me want to cry thinking what I could do with them now, Have fun
    Grant
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