A fine new Busman

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:22 pm

Nope Avery, it literally looks hot...

Philo

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:42 pm

Even cooler / hotter than Feemo!

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:08 am

You must have a lot of fun with your experiments Dr Busman!

Craig Stuntz · Post by **Craig Stuntz** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:16 pm

brewerpaul wrote:After I cut off what I needed for the pen I had about 2" left so I turned it down to fipple diameter, popped out the fipple in my own black Delrin and brass whistle and fitted this orange lucite in there. Majorly cool looking!

I'm curious if it changed the sound of the whistle at all.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:53 pm

Craig Stuntz wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:After I cut off what I needed for the pen I had about 2" left so I turned it down to fipple diameter, popped out the fipple in my own black Delrin and brass whistle and fitted this orange lucite in there. Majorly cool looking!
I'm curious if it changed the sound of the whistle at all.

Nope-- sounds just the same.

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:49 pm

Paul,

Would this work: http://www.packardwoodworks.com/Merchan ... -bpenblank

They are 1" in diameter. Just bore it out wider and turn the exterior down to size, they're already round. I've purchased wood from them before, they have blanks in the Jumbo sizes.

Feadin · Post by **Feadin** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:08 pm

Wow, a whistle made from that purple stuff would look really cool!

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:32 am

Daniel_Bingamon wrote:Paul,

Would this work: http://www.packardwoodworks.com/Merchan ... -bpenblank

They are 1" in diameter. Just bore it out wider and turn the exterior down to size, they're already round. I've purchased wood from them before, they have blanks in the Jumbo sizes.

The large "bowling ball blank" rods might work. They're 1"diam x 7"long which is JUST long enough for one of my D whistles with no room to spare on the body section. Suppose I could make the head 1/4" longer to allow a bit on the body for trimming. One problem with these polymers is that they're translucent which means that in a thin walled tube the brass tuning slide would probaby show through. Also bore irregularities, which sometimes occur when gundrilling plastics.

Craig Stuntz · Post by **Craig Stuntz** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:50 am

brewerpaul wrote:
Craig Stuntz wrote: I'm curious if it changed the sound of the whistle at all.
Nope-- sounds just the same.

Thanks, Paul. The reason I asked was because of this page, where similar whistles with different fipple materials are compared. It never really made sense to me that it should make such a noticable difference in sound. Your experiment suggests that something else is going on.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:42 pm

brewerpaul wrote:I made a pen on the lathe last night for my wife.

Hey, Paul. Have you thought of offering matching whistle and pen sets?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:56 pm

Darwin wrote:
brewerpaul wrote:I made a pen on the lathe last night for my wife.
Hey, Paul. Have you thought of offering matching whistle and pen sets?

I've thought of it, but figured the idea was a bit "cutesy". I'm open to suggestions though.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:12 pm

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I've thought of it, but figured the idea was a bit "cutesy". I'm open to suggestions though.[/quote]

Well we may be Lumberjacks but we still like our cutesy whistles and pens too!

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:45 pm

Just think, you could have matching whistles and bowling balls.

That purple stuff is really nice looking. Too bad they don't make the "Crushed Velvet" in these sizes. Makes nice pens, would make nice whistles.

Here's another one: http://woodenpost.com/products/pen_and_ ... blanks.htm

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