Homemade Mash Paddle Pics

[StroudCreek]

Ive been a Firefighter for 30 years, a buddy of mine made this for me

 

[DustyBrew]

Beautiful.......
Not likely you'll replace a Mash paddle.

 

[brucebeernut]

First go 'roun - 1/2" x 3" x 36" Oak... Made a stencil, might try this in maple next!

 

[chessking]

First go 'roun - 1/2" x 3" x 36" Oak... Made a stencil, might try this in maple next!

Nice. I Like the end profile. Should work well around the edges of a domed false bottom.

 

[rumwrksw]

This years endeavor. Falls a bit on the fancy side of fancy versus functional. Its one of the prizes for our clubs competition so it will likely end up hanging on a wall anyway

Cherry with walnut oil (which will polymerize and thus not affect the beer if they should choose to use it).

 

[DakotaRules]

This years endeavor. Falls a bit on the fancy side of fancy versus functional. Its one of the prizes for our clubs competition so it will likely end up hanging on a wall anyway



Cherry with walnut oil (which will polymerize and thus not affect the beer if they should choose to use it).

Wow! I wouldn't use it because that is gorgeous!

 

[GrogNerd]

This years endeavor. Falls a bit on the fancy side of fancy versus functional. Its one of the prizes for our clubs competition so it will likely end up hanging on a wall anyway

Cherry with walnut oil (which will polymerize and thus not affect the beer if they should choose to use it).

I had an idea for a similar design, but my woodworking skills are worse than my beer brewing skills, so I couldn't follow through

think you're right, it might be too nice to use.

good work

 

[rumwrksw]

I had an idea for a similar design, but my woodworking skills are worse than my beer brewing skills, so I couldn't follow through

think you're right, it might be too nice to use.

good work

Thanks!

Remember its sort of like brewing in that the more mistakes you make the easier it gets. My first attempts looked more like a the work of an angry beaver adjusted later by a pack of rabid squirrels.

There are several issues with this one as a user. All the little crevasses would make it a pita to clean. The strength of it is questionable, especially where the handle meets the bowl. I should have woven in another strand at the handle/bowl junction to thicken it up and strengthen it some more.

Next one I'm going back to the functional side (although I've been thinking about some interesting ways to do glueless joinery for a web type paddle so that could be interesting)

 

[wilserbrewer]

@rumwrksw

Awesome work, I'm curious, what type of tools are used to carve and detail like that?

 

[rumwrksw]

@rumwrksw

Awesome work, I'm curious, what type of tools are used to carve and detail like that?

Hey wilserbewer,

Obviously it depends somewhat on what you have available and how you like to work. You could do it all with tools-with-tails (like a foredom power carver) but I tend to work a bit more on the hand tool side because its somewhat about the process.

In this case I did the initial layout and then rough cut the outline on a bandsaw (you could use a handsaw to get ~90% of the way there and I did that before i had the bandsaw, it just takes a few more calories). I then drilled out the holes in the center of the twists and used a little keyhole saw to finish roughing them out.

From there it was mostly knives and chisels - below is an "in progress" shot showing most of tools for that part. I used the little razor saw on the left to make stop cuts and then roughed with the large bench chisel on the top. The carving gouges help to match the curves (I could use a few more of those with different radius') and the knives are used for general cleanup and inside corners. You could certainly do it with less

Not shown here is a set of needle files I used for final cleanup, the inside corners were simply murder to get right.

I also used a heavier ( gouge to rough the bowl and a hook knife to clean it up a little, although you could just use the gouge (I have the hook knife and thus feel compelled to use it )

I hope linking is ok - I have a somewhat more complete step-by-step thread here:
http://familywoodworking.org/forums/showthread.php?36807-Time-for-another-brew-spoon&highlight=

 

[RocketBrewer]

This years endeavor. Falls a bit on the fancy side of fancy versus functional. Its one of the prizes for our clubs competition so it will likely end up hanging on a wall anyway

Cherry with walnut oil (which will polymerize and thus not affect the beer if they should choose to use it).

That is a work of art! Don't imagine I could bring myself to stuff that in my mash tun. I'd love to have it hanging in the brewery though!

 

[GrogNerd]

so, I'm starting to sell my homemade mash paddles through one of our LHBS (and hopefully the 3 others to follow &, eventually online)

here are my first 3.

unfinished hard maple, sanded to 400.

 

[sweetcell]

so, I'm starting to sell my homemade mash paddles through one of our LHBS (and hopefully the 3 others to follow &, eventually online)

here are my first 3.

unfinished hard maple, sanded to 400.

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those look great. would buy. perhaps get a sharper picture before setting up your online shop

keep us posted!