Cool video–I love his playing. Nice to see him in his workshop as well. I admit to feeling envious of makers who can manage to have a workshop that is so simple and tidy that it looks as if it can double as their personal study, where in a corner next to the lathe there is something like a leather armchair and some bookshelves! I can see them finishing up a flute and then settling down to puff placidly at a pipe (wearing a smoking jacket, of course) while they read a book. My own shop bears no resemblance to that, being a place of dust and chaos, with lots of stuff stacked hither and thither under a coat of sawdust.
Thanks for posting this! Great video. is there much more to come do you know? A DVD?
I have no idea, but the video was uploaded 2 years ago, and I can only find another related to this by the same author. This one about the Boxwood Festival in Nova Scotia: https://vimeo.com/148436662
Oh! Seems to be a documentary in development: http://www.unceasingplay.ca/the-magic-flute
appears the Olwell documentary has created a fervor on others wanting some of the same.
Great stuff.
I look forward to watching this later today. Chris is one of my friend Rod Cameron’s clients and close friends. Rod gave Chris lessons in flute making both in person and via Skype, with computers set up at each other’s lathes to make this possible. I may have to do that some day as I like to teach but unfortunately have a workshop similar to what Geoffrey Ellis describes! Chris got Rod’s engraving bug as well. Rod once provided me with a GRS Engraving unit. I never ever got into engraving my silverwork, partly out of lack of time and partly out of a desire to keep things simpler. So I passed this unit onto Chris. Its great to see him at his artistry!
As far as making videos - I’ve taken some footage of the flute making process myself but my main priority is getting the flutes out into the world as quickly as possible and keeping my queue as short as possible. Someday I might get around to a video. Probably after I complete my “retirement pile” of some 1500 Folk Flutes (I am sticking up on completed Folk Flutes to sell over the remainder of my lifespan basically). Someday hopefully.
Casey