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Default Altering A Paddle's Offset?

Somewhere (this NG?) I read an assertion that a FG paddle blade can be
loosened/moved by applying heat to where it's attached to the loom.

Jersey Paddler's PaddleSports 2007 is coming up and I want to shop for a
dedicated waveski paddle.

That means short, one-piece, fat blade, maybe even a flat blade... but probably
just your basic whitewater paddle (whatever that is....)

But over the past few years, I've become dialed in on no-feather paddles for all
my other paddling - forearm tendonitis...

Needless-to-say, not that many paddles are zero-feather and I've been getting by
with two-piece adjustable paddles.

Should I resign myself to changing back to feathered if I get a solid-shaft
paddle?

Or will I be able to do a one-time adjustment on whatever paddle I buy?
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PeteCresswell