Curved gouge chisel

This handy little chisel cost me less than £4.00. But you can use it to gouge out the convave surface on the hand grip of your paddle. Whacking it with a mallet does the job, but it cuts really neat little concave slivers and she's easy to control so you only take out as much wood as you want.

I've only used flat chisels before, and they wander all over the place and generally dive under the grain of the wood. Not this one though, easy to guide to get it just right.