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Flutes and sawdust

Mr. Peet said:
I just added a sample to the reference collection. The supplier provided an undersized sample (less than IWCS size). Guessing it is a challenge for bigger pieces. Or provider does not care as much.
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I might be able to arrange a sample. How large did you say again? Full heartwood? (Full heartwood would be very hard as Mirabelle has a very thin heartwood unless it’s a very old tree)

EDIT: I actually do not have a dry sample that is large enough. Maybe in a few years (it has to dry VERY slowly to avoid cracks or be very thin)
 
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daveflutes said:
For @Harry-thefluteatelier and anyone else interested in wood phylogenetics! Here's a tree of the woods I've made flutes from to date - you can see which types I lean towards.
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When I'm not making sawdust, I'm an evolutionary biologist, so this truly warms my heart.

I notice that you don't have Taxodium distichum -- bald cypress. That would be an easy one for me to get, although not right away; I go down to south Louisiana several times a year. With any luck I might even be able to find you some "sinker" cypress -- from submerged logs that have been lying in the swamp for many years. Let me know if this interests you. . .
 
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Cloud of Sawdust Farms said:
When I'm not making sawdust, I'm an evolutionary biologist, so this truly warms my heart.

I notice that you don't have Taxodium distichum -- bald cypress. That would be an easy one for me to get, although not right away; I go down to south Louisiana several times a year. With any luck I might even be able to find you some "sinker" cypress -- from submerged logs that have been lying in the swamp for many years. Let me know if this interests you. . .
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I'm so glad to find someone like minded!
I do have bald cypress, it's one of many sitting in the queue. I like wood with a history, so sinker cypress would be interesting. I'll do any unusual woods as well as just different species.
 
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@Mike Hill asked for a contrabass so here's mine:) I still need to do the mark 3 with the fingerhole placements finalised, but I'm never in a rush to rout a 2" bore. It plays down to E3.


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daveflutes said:
I'm so glad to find someone like minded!
I do have bald cypress, it's one of many sitting in the queue. I like wood with a history, so sinker cypress would be interesting. I'll do any unusual woods as well as just different species.
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It won't be this week or even this month, but sometime this year I'll try and find you a bit of sinker cypress when I get down to Louisiana.
 
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Here's a transverse flute for @Harry-thefluteatelier , @ronnybounds and any other interested flute makers. It's from another of my many mahogany table legs. I'm just waiting for some steel rod in the right size so I can hot metal the embouchure hole nice and clean. It plays already but not great

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I finally finished my ultimate frankenflute! Made from 18 small pen blanks. It took a bit of work to get all the joins fully sealed but it plays properly now.

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Looks really nice! Very creative! What did you use to glue the blanks together? Did you use wood glue? CA glue? Or epoxy?
 
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@SA-Motors I use gorilla wood glue. A couple of times I've used a two part epoxy on very oily burls. There's also quite a bit of wood epoxy and PVA to fill in the cracks!
@Nature Man The different woods definitely affect the tone, you can tell as you cover each hole and move from one wood to the next. It also feels really oddly balanced as the denser and lighter woods are more or less at random.
@daniscool the woods are from a set from Amazon. Actually a present from the Christmas before last 😆. It's all of these except the leadwood and African blackwood

I also have a collection of like half inch offcuts from tuning all the flutes. If I can get all the ends clean and flat easily that might be next!

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daveflutes said:
@SA-Motors I use gorilla wood glue. A couple of times I've used a two part epoxy on very oily burls. There's also quite a bit of wood epoxy and PVA to fill in the cracks!
@Nature Man The different woods definitely affect the tone, you can tell as you cover each hole and move from one wood to the next. It also feels really oddly balanced as the denser and lighter woods are more or less at random.
@daniscool the woods are from a set from Amazon. Actually a present from the Christmas before last 😆. It's all of these except the leadwood and African blackwood

I also have a collection of like half inch offcuts from tuning all the flutes. If I can get all the ends clean and flat easily that might be next!

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Those three rosewoods at the ends there sound very interesting. Have you got botanical names? Thai rosewood d. cochinchinensis? Burma rosewood d. oliveri? African rosewood???
 
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daniscool said:
Those three rosewoods at the ends there sound very interesting. Have you got botanical names? Thai rosewood d. cochinchinensis? Burma rosewood d. oliveri? African rosewood???
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Yep! I think some of the IDs might be questionable but one is definitely a dark rosewood. It matches the Thai rosewood in the picture, but looks rather like the genuine Burma rosewood (D. oliveri) I have from Exotic Hardwoods UK. I have authentic Thai rosewood from Timberline UK, and its closer to the Burma rosewood in the pic!

I found what's presumably the same supplier's eBay store. They list Burma rosewood, but I wonder whether that listing is actually Burma padauk or similar. I can ping you the Amazon and eBay listings if you want a closer look yourself.
 
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Yep! I think some of the IDs might be questionable but one is definitely a dark rosewood. It matches the Thai rosewood in the picture, but looks rather like the genuine Burma rosewood (D. oliveri) I have from Exotic Hardwoods UK. I have authentic Thai rosewood from Timberline UK, and its closer to the Burma rosewood in the pic!

I found what's presumably the same supplier's eBay store. They list Burma rosewood, but I wonder whether that listing is actually Burma padauk or similar. I can ping you the Amazon and eBay listings if you want a closer look yourself.
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I don’t need them. Need to finish our current trade before I get to buying more wood.
 
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