You can alter the feather of the blade, but the shaft will still have
the indexing offset. You probably won't like that. The way to do it
right is to cut the shaft at the center, sleeve in a 6" carbon fiber or
glass tube, and epoxy the whole thing back together at the feather or
lack of it you want. You can shorten the shaft at the same time if you
want. Can't lengthen it much, though.

Steve

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
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?