Whitewater dory oars

Here is a set of oars that were custom built for local Montesano fishing enthusiast 

Ben "the Rod"Rosenbach. 

The lumber involved in these tools is Walnut handles, Ash/Spruce
throats (for natural counterbalance) 

and bookmatched Alaskan Yellow Cedar blades highlighted with mahogany veneer pinstripes.

The white edging is constructed of 14 layers of dynel and the tip is capped with Karelian Birch burl veneer. Rounding these sticks off is a black rope wrap (gangster wrap) 

sealed  on the end with black fillets.

"The Rod" doesn't mess around. Here he is testing his new blades on the East Fork of the Satsop on the Olympic Peninsula.