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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2012, 07:34:14 PM »
I guess they were building a laminated prop.
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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2012, 07:40:54 PM »
I guess they were building a laminated prop.


Yup, someone sent me that pic when I was doing the same thing...building a laminated prop using handtools for a production of 'Misalliance'.  I don't know how many times folks passing by my bench took the time to point out I was making a 'prop prop'.

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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2012, 08:00:09 PM »
Could the Tower be a shot tower (for making shotgun pellets)? I visited one in Hobart Tasmania, the lead forms perfect spheres as it falls into the water tank at the bottom.
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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2012, 08:50:18 PM »

I'm kinda thinking the 'tower' is just a flagpole on the roof....

I can't figure out what tool the fellow in the white shirt left of the fellow with the wooden plane is holding...?
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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2012, 08:54:47 PM »

I'm kinda thinking the 'tower' is just a flagpole on the roof....

I can't figure out what tool the fellow in the white shirt left of the fellow with the wooden plane is holding...?

Looks like a handsaw and a blindmans rule or a ships bevel.

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Re: Old Tools!
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2012, 07:34:17 AM »
Great photo of prop construction.There wouldn't be an unemployment problem if it still took two guys to build a prop.
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