I liked the post about making paddles in school. Our shop teacher made one every year just to show us how to saw. I remember a bunch of us getting in trouble in his class one day. He lined about 5 of us up for the rest of the class to watch us get our butts spanked. When he spanked my friend before my turn, the paddle split down the middle so it was only 2 inches wide.Then my friend turns around to the teacher laughing and said it didn't hurt. I wish he wouldn't have done that because the teacher was fuming and man I can still feel the sting of that narrow paddle.