This propeller was built as a test prop for Classic Aero Machining Service (CAMS) based at Omaka Airfield, Blenheim, NZ. The two different colours of the propeller are due to two different woods being used - sapele mahogany and ramin. This prop was made to test out and trial one of CAMS's gnome rotary engines. Video courtesy of CAMS. See their FB page HERE

See what’s hiding in the other side of the Fox Prop workshop! Most of these have been restored by Jeff

A demo of how the wooden boards would be laid out in the press bed as if it were glued

The actual gluing-up of a Tiger Moth propeller, then setting it in the press bed

Watch how a propeller gets a more refined carve in the copy-router machine

Watch a time-lapse of the copy-lathe giving the propeller a rough cut (process before copy-routing)

Here Jeff demonstrates how he gets the rough shape for the several boards that make up a propeller. Using a laminate template, he traces around the shape for that specific board, then cuts it out, ready for the gluing process.

A satisfying time-lapse of a Tiger Moth propeller being copy-routed

Back with our friends at Classic Aero Machining Service - testing Gnome Rotary engine with 2x different Fox Props

This is a typical sight, smell and sound in the woodwork side of Jeff's workshop on any given day! SOUND WARNING