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Bespoke designers and manufacturers of high performance and vintage reproduction and warbird propellers. Big believers in craftsmanship and technology.

Stroud, UK
Joined August 2012
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Loving the latest from @HerculesProps Spitfire Propeller Pens, made from real WW2 Spitfire prop blades. Stunning! hercprops.com/spitfire-pens/
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Back to work...kinda. Today I am starting work on a very special experimental propeller to be tested… instagram.com/p/6FRmT_QkJ8/
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The birth of a propeller. Today's mission is an RV3 prop that I'm currently CNC'ing. I'm not just a… instagram.com/p/2V_Me1wkAf/
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One day a pilot, the next a propeller maker. Today I am running the CNC machine, making propellers for Groppo Trails! Quite good fun really.
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A propeller being born!
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The four Honduras Mahogany, vintage stamped aviation coasters are finished and about to be packed up… instagram.com/p/xgl4JlQkD6/
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Two finished beauties with our 'standard' bulletproof polyurethane leading edges. Loving my work… instagram.com/p/wJiqXhwkKR/
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Tools you never thought a propeller maker needed, part 1: the blowtorch. Used to anneal the brass for leading edges.
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Replying to @g0bhx
@g0bhx @HerculesProps yup. We use computer modelling and CNC machining, followed by personal hand craft with every single propeller we make
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From flat sheet to formed leading edge. All done using hands & plenishing hammer. Very careful work! @HerculesProps
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Today I am hand making some more brass leading edges on one of our incredible propellers :-) @HerculesProps
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My project, the Gipsy moth prop (I crafted the leading edges), has gone to the paint shop! Excited @HerculesProps
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Working on the traditional brass leading edges for this beautiful Gipsy Moth propeller this morning at… instagram.com/p/u7-biKwkFv/
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Photo of the Day! @KirbyChambliss and the @RedBullAirforce tear up the sky.
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Great little #manufacturing company in #Stroud making wooden propellors! --> Welcome to twitter @HerculesProps
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The wonderful @groovy_nut at @seethingairday last Sunday.
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