C&K’s Conor Mihell checks in from the heart of Canadian canoe country with 5 of his favorite made-in-Ontario, one-piece traditional hardwood canoe paddles Recently, one-piece hardwood canoe paddles ...

We tested out some of the best Double-Blade Paddles. Find out what we thought and see which one will be your best fit. For an old fart traditionalist like myself, change comes hard. I was one of the ...

Mike Kipp had a simple reason for starting to make his own canoe tripping paddles. “I just wanted a better paddle,” says the 54-year-old founder of Wilderness Paddle Works. A machinist at a small ...

“When we started out, we didn’t know a thing about woodworking”, Todd Randall says as he switches on a table saw and dons some ear protection. “We learned as we went and got a lot of advice from our ...

It only takes about 25 minutes of labor to make a canoe paddle at Sanborn Canoe Company, but it can take up to three weeks between gluing the first strips together and painting the final colors.