Well, Winter has set in and I was lucky to get out yesterday for one quick flight (then my hands were ice). Dont know when I will get to try the "maple apc" but I will let you know what I think when I do. Its amazingly light compared to the apc, when you have them both in your hands.

In my wood shop we only have white pine, which is too soft for props IMO. Never saw yellow pine. I think soft maple would be OK (a bit lighter than hard maple but allmost as tough) and I was thinking American Poplar might be good too, especially if I picked a denser piece.

I have seen old wood props made of everything from Gum, maple, hickory, cherry, walnut and some woods I cant identify. I actually had about 2 dozen original Y&O props that I bought for my old timers, and they were all different woods!

Anyhow, just something else to experiment with and test out. Cool stuff indeed!

Andrew

PS not planning to try and sell these but if I get a chance to make up some and they work well I'd send you some to try yourself. May be a while!