Well today I’ve been shaping a new Maple flute – and came up with a new idea for detail.
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Flute 365 – Day 51 – Splitsville!
So… here we go again after a seven day hiatus due to my day job! Sadly it’s with bad news about the branch flute… 🙁
Flute 365 – Day 50 – Planning a Branch Flute…
There’s a privet bush at the end of our drive which regularly needs trimming… today I took this off – and decided to make a flute with it. It’s going to be a while drying – the ends are capped with beeswax.
Flute 365 – Day 44 – Slots
Cutting a slot for a thread binding is not always an exact science, even on the lathe.
Flute 365 – Day 43 – GRIPS!
You can’t put a round hollow wooden thing into a vice. Nuh-uh. It squashes and splits. So – you cut a “V” into a couple of bits of wood, line the Vs with old leather, and use THEM to grip the flute in the vice. Now it’s being held from all sides and can’t squash […]
Flute 365 – Day 42 – Rough beginnings…
While it’s being made, a flute’s potential for beauty is only dimly visible.
Flute 365 – Day 41 – She came and made a flute
A friend of ours came to our house and made her own flute under my tutelage.
Flute 365 – Day 39 – Beautiful grain…
Some genuinely lovely grain coming through on this flute…
Flute 365 – Day 37 – Spinning on the lathe.
Some way through turning a new flute…
Flute 365 Day 36 – No tuning today then!!
Tuning needs to be done when the temperature is between 17-21°C – no chance of doing anything meaningful this afternoon!