Traditional Wooden Sculls
The only wooden sculls Handcrafted in the USA, we are among a handful of remaining craftsman making these beautiful oars. Complement your vintage or new rowing shell with our wooden sculls. Sculptured from our clear Spruce and highlighted with mahogany accents, tips, and back. Patterned after the best of the world’s original scull oar makers, these are uniquely Shaw and Tenney. Offered in two shaft configurations: hollow shaft for serious rowing and meticulous five piece shaft construction for competition. All come complete with shaft protection and stops.
Please call 800-240-4867 to place your order.
Our History
While technically founded in 1858, this hand painted sign dug up from the archives shows that the company was actually doing business two years before that. Either way, we're still the second oldest manufacturer of marine products in the United States today.
From our simple workshop on the banks of the Penobscot River, we still employ time-honored manufacturing traditions. Here, a long time Shaw & Tenney craftsman sculpts an oar on a drum sander that’s more than 100 years old.
Our oars and paddles are all made to order right here, in our Orono, Maine workshop. Meticulously hand sewing oar leathers takes years (and years) of practice.
We’ve been dipping our paddles the same way for over 100 years. Of course there are probably easier ways to do it, but we’re convinced there’s no better.