I love that duplicating lathe saw .. that's awesome..that's a really nice piece of engineering.. I would love to have one for making custom gunstocks.. as always it's a pleasure to see your work ..
I love that tracing lathe. I have a lot of other prop building videos come up. I haven't seen any big bad boys like that one yet. Mostly little ones for small props
I am always in awe as I watch you working. You seem to throw those props around as if they were candy bars. Keep up the great work young lady. You are truly awesome. Hello to Grandma.
Happy to see your return to video. Your explanations are very informative and through. Love the detail you provide to an almost lost art. Keep up the great work!!!
Soo interesting. I have made balsa-props for models, by glueing planks in sunfeather shape, and then hand carved, and sanding. I am happy to see how professionals do. Hugs from Sweden.
Can you please define for me the purpose of the pitch cut? Also, I would think that the locating of the wood in the duplicating machine would be critical and I do not see how you locate the prop in the machine. And then you flip it over a run the cut on the other end of the prop. What about the locating between the cuts of each end? I have seen you use spacer blocks and you have adjusted the prop so the cutting blade stands equally above the wood on each side which I believe helps you to locate the prop. Maybe you could make a video illustrating how you locate the work piece in the machine and the flipping process. My background is in building die cast tooling and in the 60s through the 80's (pre CNC) we used a lot of duplicating machines. Right out of the Navy in 1969 my first job in tooling was operating a Hydotel machine that machined steel die parts from plastic models. Thanks for your videos!!
Love that tracing lathe - so simple (no CNC!). I did a tracing operation manually on my 12" metal lathe to duplicate a decorative brass cap for an antique coach lamp. In my case, I used a dial indicator against the pattern and a HSS toolbit ground to the shape of the indicator tip. It worked like a charm. I would LOVE to see how the blade pattern is made.
That is cool. I am an aviation enthusiast, but I have never seen a propeller being made from scratch. May I ask a question ? Would that Lathe be a similar sort of machine for making Rifle Butts in industrial quantities ? I have seen old Black and White films of Rifle Butts being made during WW2, and it seemed to me to be one "Master" and several being turned at the same time to produce identical copies.
ALAINA !!! Wow is it nice to see you making flying art again. I love your voice overs, you have a wonderful narrators voice. Question, how often do you have to replace / resharpen the duplication saw blade? Your ability to turn trees into high precision works of art just thrills me.
Essa tecnologia facilita muito teu trabalho, é impressionante a precisão do corte e 'acabamento'. Tem de ter muito amor por esse trabalho que exige a integral atenção da Pessoa. Super like.
Culver Props please don’t apologise. What a lot of you tubers seem to forget is ‘having a life ‘ is more important than views. You just do what you do, when you do it and we’ll be here. 👌
Really great video, thanks! I noticed that it looked like the tip end wasn't centered on the 4 layers of the wood. Did I see that right? Is that to do with the shape of the prop blade?
I center it by putting the center of the prop in the center of the shaft that it turns on, and I just shim it the way I need too. This one was 4 boards, so I have no middle board.
@@CulverProps You make it look easy, but there seems to be plenty of ways to mess it up and a ton of things you do just because you just know what you have to do. Like I've said before art and science.
please, you need to learn never wear long sleeves near a drill...so dangerous!!!!!!!!! rather pull your sleeves up..seriously its not worth it...I have seen it..not a pretty sight..
I normally do, in that particular video I had poison ivy on my forearm from hauling firewood, and several layers of bandages. So that was not normal practice for me, I do usually do have my sleeves up.
I caught that in the next video. I thought it looked like mahogany, but being a lighter weight wood I wouldn’t have guessed it to be strong enough as opposed to say White Oak.
