Hand Powered Double Wooden Propeller

This instructable will showcase how you can make your own hand powered double wooden propeller at home, in just four easy steps.

Two flat pieces of wood for the propeller around about 20 cm long, 3 cm wide and 0.5 cm thick One long piece of wood about 20cm long. Tools: Wood files/rasps Sand paper Scroll saw Drill bit and drill Or you can just use a knife. Pva glue

The first thing you will need to do is marking the center of your piece of wood with a circle that does not go all the way out to the edges of the piece of wood. Then you have to draw lines from every single corner to the side of the circle. When you have done that just take your knife or scroll saw and cut out the outline of the lines.

After that by using a wood file or whittling knife you, remove the wood from two opposite corners of the piece of wood. A knife, while traditional, is not the fastest or easiest way. Using a wood file or a shaving tool is better. If you are using a knife, hold the block in your left hand, and shave away the wood on the right side of the block. To make the propeller shape, remove only the wood on the top right side. The left side needs to be untouched, and the right side is shaved down to a sharp edge.

Then you should do the same for the other side, then the propeller should look like a thin piece of wood. Then with a drill bit you should stick a hole in the middle of your propeller. The hole should be a bit bigger than the diameter of the stick.

Then you take the stick and place it into the hole of the first propeller. Then you use pva glue to make it stick. After that you have done that you take the other propeller and do the same thing. After you have done all of that you are ready to use your propeller.