Best wood for "thuddy" paddle spanking

I'm an experienced spanker with lots and lots of paddles, but I've recently had a request.

I've someone who wants more "thud".

It's not a pain thing... I spank plenty hard and plenty long, in most cases stopping just before blistering occurs. It's a wanting a deeper thuddier spanking thing.

There are a million choices -- oak, hickory, maple, zebra wood, you name it.

I'm hoping someone who knows their wood better than do I can make a suggestion.

Try walnut but also a thicker paddle might help. Good luck..

Try walnut but also a thicker paddle might help. Good luck..

From the link below: "As a rule of thumb, the heavier an implement is, the thuddier it is." Thickness and wood density are factors. The more dense the wood - the heavier its is per unit volume.

http://spankingart.org/wiki/Sting_and_thud

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-density-d_40.html

Come on. Walnut isn't even in the top TWENTY for dense woods.

Black Ironwood is #1 at over 84 pounds/cubic foot but it isn't a commercially available species because it is a very small tree.

African Blackwood and Lignum Vitae are good options at 79.3 and 78.5 pounds per cubic foot, but they are costly.

Ebony is about 72 pounds/cubic foot and is easy to obtain from specialty lumber yards.

Polycarbonate/Lexan at 74 pounds per cubic foot is not too expensive.

Delrin as a cane is damn near deadly feeling at 88 pounds per cubic foot. A 3/8" diameter delrin cane will make you hope death happens soon.

A relatively inexpensive and pretty paddle that will also make you hope for a quick death is to use two boards of Mahogany which is much denser than walnut, route out a quarter inch from the center of one of the boards and place a sheet of lead 1/8" thick, 2" wide and 2" less in length than the paddle and glue the three layers together. This laminated paddle will not be too large to handle and will be plenty dense. To say the impact will be a thud is an understatement. The lead between the wood planks will pack a wallop you won't believe. Be careful not to hit the base of the spine---you will fracture the coccyx or sacrum.

Have fun!

Come on. Walnut isn't even in the top TWENTY for dense woods.

I'm not trying to bruise and walnut for the price can work even though there are denser woods. Just for you Susie I'm going to cut you a paddle out of half inch steel. That should be dense enough even for you.

@Master_Dorson knows his stuff in creating paddles. @Fencer55 has a friend who makes paddles, and he can probably get some information too.

I'm not trying to bruise and walnut for the price can work even though there are denser woods. Just for you Susie I'm going to cut you a paddle out of half inch steel. That should be dense enough even for you.

If you aren't trying to bruise, you don't need a dense or heavy paddle. In fact for a long and sometimes hard spanking, a less dense material where you batter the skin for a long time to give a red sensitive skin surface is actually better.

Good luck having an arm strong enough to swing a paddle of half inch steel many times. The lead/mahogany laminated paddle will at least have a beautiful finish. Even 304 stainless steel will not look as pretty and a beautiful wood.

Ebony is about 72 pounds/cubic foot and is easy to obtain from specialty lumber yards.

Ebony runs around $100 per board foot. It polishes up like glass and would make a beautiful paddle. It’s usually sold in small pieces for inlay work.

You can get 8/4 Mahogany or Sapele for under $10 per board foot. Good density and finishes nice. Don’t think you’d need a steel plate in it for a good “thud” !

Since we are using cubic foot for comparisons, here are some to look at...

steel/iron runs in the 490's lbs.

Aluminum is around 170's lbs.

Rubber is around 94 lbs.

leather is around 60 lbs.

lead is around 708 lbs.

copper is around 560 lbs.

Delrin aka acetal is 87 lbs.

Nylon is around the 70's lbs.

PVC is 87 lbs.

Lexan aka Polycarbonates is 75 lbs

Teflon aka PTFE is 135 lbs.

For reference goto: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/density-solids-d_1265.html

okay...

chuckling @switchablesusie, "Delrin as a cane is damn near deadly feeling at 88 pounds per cubic foot. A 3/8" diameter Delrin cane will make you hope death happens soon." Yes Delrin is rather stiff, dense and with round rod of 3/8" does deliver a deep penetrating thud unlike rattan which is very light.

@chester89, Thank you!

Now I know we said we wanted more thud, my question would be is what has been used so far for reference in paddles used so far on this person. Is bruising okay with that person or not, just what type of thud as a real heavy flogger can be thuddy, rubber products can be rather thuddy and do deep penetration and possible bruising. You see above I have listed some materials that paddles could be made from or in combination. Aluminum could be a starting point for something heavy...

Usually a smaller paddle with more weight will be thuddy, lighter tends to be more stingy...

@pmoi - In response to your original question - be careful what you ask for! You may ( probably will ) get more info than you needed, ?

It would be a very satisfying job to own a paddle store and having Moms and Dads and Husbands and Wives (or whoever) coming in with their errant naughty boys or girls of ALL ages to be 'fitted out' with their ideal paddle from the many I would have on show. There would naturally be a little testing area (open for all to view because let's face it a naughty boy or girl doesn't deserve too much privacy) where the implement could be tried out for size, comfort and effectiveness. kind of a try before you buy! Lol. I'm sure I'd do a roaring trade hehe

While the material a paddle is made of is a contributing factor so are size and shape, while I do not profess to know much about woods, I have a good friend that makes excellent paddles, once he was able to secure some ipe ( known in Argentina as quebracho) wood and although it was very hard on his tools he was quite happy withe the results.

He made several paddles, out of several different woods, that due to a different shape on each side achieved the effect of one side being thuddier that the other.

Ipe is a very hard and dense wood used to make high end decks. The wood is so hard that screw and nail holes have to be pre-drilled in order to use any fasteners. As materials go, it isn't expensive either.

Well, I found there is a wood database which lists weight.

Leatherwerks, which. Is incorporates Hanson Paddlewerks, seems to have as its heaviest cocobolo followed by bloodwood.

Thanks for the help. A good thuddy soreness is on its way!