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Michael C.:
Hey Wayne I made a typo on that it should have been 7/8ths here is an illustration I made, hopefully it clears it up a bit. Don't worry about the 7/32nds area just yet because right now we are just concentrating on the bore area and not the true sound edge/hole or the actual floating area for the air travel. Just make sure to leave enough room for you to have 7/8ths of solid wood for you to make your air channel.
I labeled the area I'm talking about with the 7/8ths and the sound edge which will either make or break the flute is the delicate bit that I will go into detail on later. I have a couple of different builds on these going on, one for you :), so I will have plenty of photos to put up once I clean them up and re-size them. I'm glad you asked and please if anyone has any questions feel free to bring it up here and I'll try and expand or clarify what I'm trying to say.
Michael C.:
Here is the actual bored out piece using a 3/4" router bit, take your time routing it out, you don't need to get it all at once. It's best to take off a little, check it for the right radius and take a little more off if you nee to, because if you take off to much you're going to get a different key than you planned for and the circle on the foot will be more of an oval.
And the two halves that are going to go together to make the whole.
You can see that my routing skills have something left to be desired sometimes :) As long as you have at least 1/8" thickness on the walls to work with your ok, if you go to much thinner than that the flute will play but it will break easily and the tone won't be as full as it would be with at least that much wood to resonate. I usually miss the center, which is one reason I leave room for error in the width of my halves, I always end up having to clean it up so if you can avoid this more power to you it will save you time.
stickbender:
Thanks that really helps. ;)
Wayne
Michael C.:
Here is the branch after I sawed it in half, I'm going to be taking all of that pretty heartwood out. From what I have been told the idea is that you are supposed to fill where the heartwood was with your own heart while you are playing. I guess that may sound kooky to some people, but honestly if you've ever played one long enough you end up forgetting your even playing after a while and the song sort of carries you instead of you carrying it.
Lee Slikkers:
This is great! I have 3 real nice sized Juniper (ERC) branches pretty close to the correct diameter...ends are sealed but should I take the bark off while they are kinda green or cure them as they are?
Thanks!
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