Saturday, May 12, 2012
Paradoxically, it is both the largest and the most petite example I’ve ever run across, and I’ve been out there among’m for decades.
The axel is 19 ½” in length and at least 2” in diameter – depending on where you stick your yardstick. Each blade, or “paddle” if you prefer, is 23” long counting the tenon seen from the top of the axel as it peeps out of its mortise. Each blade is 9 ½” wide at the wide end and about 3” at the top where it dives into the axel.
The simpler version: This piece of wall-hanging art is 19 ½” by 23” by 2”.
