"Derek Lawler" wrote in message
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What would be the best glue to repair the wooden blade of an oar? I was
going to use epoxy glue but is there another good or better alternative?
Thanks.
Derek

If you have been lucky and the break has followed the grain to give you a
long diagonal area to rejoin then all you need to do is reglue it with epoxy
resin and it will be as strong as it ever was and the join will be almost
invisible.
If, however the shaft has broken straight across there will not be enough
area for a strong glue-only repair and you have two or possibley three
choices:
1. Glue it with epoxy and then wrap with woven glass mat and resin. This
will make a strong joint but will look awful.
2. If you have a nice pair of spoon blade oars that are worth the effort
then you can shape a long diagonal area each side of the break and let in
new piece of wood and when the resin glue has set you then round it off
nicely and stain the new wood to match the rest before varnishing. Very
labour intensive but ends up looking OK if you have the skill to do it
right. You have to be careful both when shaping and glueing in the new piece
that you hold the two parts of the broken oar so that at the end of the job
the oar is still dead straight!
3. If you find that the oars are hollow then you have a further option of
glueing in a reinforcing piece in the hollow interior instead of the labour
intensive solution #2