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Maybe 3D printing's the answer, though I'm not sure that stuff's safe to stick in your mouth either. Depends on the material you 3d print with. The most common, PLA, is a sustainable bio-plastic polymer typically made with corn starch or sugar cane and most reputable makers include an MSDS on their...

Solas691 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:58 am Hi any updates on the 3d whistles ??

Well, I've made some more.
I sold one today at the local pop-up market I vend 3d-printed stuff at.
No new production improvements or developments, as I spent most of the week making non-whistle inventory for the aforementioned market.

On a broader note, you definitely were trying to criticize the idea of a chromatic whistle. Indeed, saying you have "no use" for one and then arguing that the community won't like them IS a criticism of them, by definition. I disagree. I don't have any use for golf shoes instead of sneake...

Pardon me, but this comment doesn't make a lot of sense, at least insofar as you talk about D+ whistles. D+ whistles certainly aren't for everyone, but playing one doesn't require you to "relearn" any muscle memory, since they don't require any different fingerings for any of the standard...

That probably wouldn't do a flute or a fiddle much good either! People will expect adequate tensile strength in a whistle, but they can get used to instruments that need a bit of care. I might be in a small minority who'd think that was perfectly fine now (I'm even willing to shift my electricity c...

Interesting. I imagine you'd get a number of slides out of each stick, so that cost doesn't sound high. But that probably tells us that I haven't considered the price competition in the whistle market! Penny whistle, and all that! My goal with these things is to produce as good of a quality whistle...

I'm not going to be as harsh as some others have been in this thread. And I am only going to speak for myself, rather than purporting to speak for the entirety of whistledom. As for myself, I have tried d+ whistles (whistles with an extra pinkie hole to go down one more note) and I've tried whistles...

So much relieved to see that now in brass! Well done, Wanderer. And thanks for allowing us to look over your shoulder while you're doing all this. Very exciting! Any thoughts as to what comes next? Yeah..I'm rough on whistles, and I snapped one at the tuning slide. Being rough with it, of course :)...

New whistle printed. Tuning slide works great!

Made a short video about it, in which I purposefully break one of the old style whistles. I hope it's obvious in the video that it's not *that* easy to break them, but I do believe the brass slide is a much better solution.

https://youtu.be/nRA2P8t_qQc

Tubing arrived yesterday, and OD was right where the seller said it would be. My printers were busy, so I spent the afternoon modifying my CAD files to do away with the printed tuning slide, and instead created a spot for the brass one to go. https://i.imgur.com/1WMsrhFm.png Fit tests done today see...

Wanderer, a friend of mine who is into experimenting with uilleann pipes using 3D printing had the same problem. He found that printing the parts by adjusting the print so that the layer lines were diagonal to the vertical axis of the part gave much more strength to the part in use. Yup, I know the...

Great stuff Wanderer. Keep us in touch with progress. I've made a few whistles "the hard way", and mill the ramp, using an approximation approach, rotating the head in 5 degree increments. So rather than a perfectly curved ramp yielding a perfectly straight edge (when viewed from above), ...

Great stuff Wanderer. Keep us in touch with progress. I've made a few whistles "the hard way", and mill the ramp, using an approximation approach, rotating the head in 5 degree increments. So rather than a perfectly curved ramp yielding a perfectly straight edge (when viewed from above), ...

BigDavy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 8:29 pm Wanderer, these might be of interest to you.Qwistle 3d printer plans

I've seen those...but I haven't wanted to look at them too closely. I wanted all my ideas to be my own designs from the ground up.

(server error wouldn't let me use quotes..blah) The entire whistle is 3d printed. The ferrules and tuning slide are printed with a silver-colored plastic. The rest of the whistle whistle is a plastic that is gradient colored on the filament roll (much like gradient yarns for knitting/crochet). The m...