Carved Wood Propeller

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a prop carved from red oak, especially with hand tools. Nice work!

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Extremely cool! Thank you for sharing.

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very cool! thanks for the post

Very well done!Yours looks like it is useable,mine was made strickly for show.I used Pine for the two I have made (and for my next one),but I like the strong grain of the Oak you used.While doing research,I found that just about every wood specie was used during WW1 to make props.Walnut,White Oak,and Mahogany,leading the pack.
Please share more of your work,this is a nice departure from furniture.
Andy

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BRAVO!

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This is an excellent piece of work!

Great job!

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amazing!! this is art! would love to see how the display looks in the actual museum…

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Sweeeeet! I’m not a carver, but in seeing this propeller, I can only imagine the whole set of skills and requirements necessary to make a propeller with precision, ...shape, profile, compound curves, etc.

Great Job!

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Very impressive prop. You did a beautiful job on it. Thanks for posting.

God bless
tom

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Nice work. I saw a gorgeous “homebuilt” prop that was made from alternating laminations of maple and walnut. I did a practice one from poplar a bunch of years ago.

A very nice piece of craftsmanship.

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Fantastic. I’d like to see some pictures that show your progress.

Thanks for sharing

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A very hard and beautiful job. Gotta be hard to get the curvers rught.

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Is this prop to be used or is it just for display? Would your process be different? Props are fascinating things and you;ve done a great job on this one. Thanks for the post… will you be blogging the process?

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Thanks for the kind words.

Kipster, I’ll see if I have any in progress photos.

Mark Shymanski, This is a display prop. Making a flying prop takes quite a bit more time.

Andy, The majority of the early aviation and WW1 props were manufactured by furniture and piano companies as they had the most experience working with laminated blanks and the skilled workers needed already in place.

Regards,

Very nice, thanks for sharing. Love the photo with the ‘raw’ wood as a background. :)

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Beautiful stuff.

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Great work. I would love to do that. Any links to plans you could share?

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great job !

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that would look really cool as a ceiling fan. whoosh whoosh whoosh. of course you’d have to stay well clear of it!

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