Suum cuique (To each his own—with amethyst, of course)
Well, perhaps this one is a little busy.
Dude, kinda’ beatin’ a dead horse here, ain’t ya?
Yeah, I know…just being ornery (and I was kinda bored) LOL!
Question, Brian: I take it that the above engraving and insets are in this instance on the side of the outer blowing edge, am I right?
If so, I wonder - not being a flutemaker myself - how the engraving and such might affect best performance by causing any air turbulence, particularly considering its proximity to the blowing edge. OTOH, of course for our purposes the conventional wisdom it that when the edge cuts the air stream, it’s what goes IN that does the business, but I still wonder if the effect on the breath coursing the outer surface has any bearing. I’ve never seen anything but smooth surfaces on that region of a flute before.
No, Nano, it’s clearly on the near, contact side.
Now I actually quite like that design-wise. Wouldn’t want it on a flute of mine - a bit girly and suspect from the looks might be uncomfortable against the lip, but it’s pretty.
All right, and thanks, Jem. Still, my question about turbulence were it to be on the other side holds. Any wiser heads to weigh in on this?
Ok, that is the first one where I wonder what that would feel like under the lip.
There’s absolutely nothing in front of the sound hole—that would cause trouble.
If anything, the gemstones are less than 1/4 mm proud (above) the surface.
Any flutist would “feel” their presence and might find them annoying.
The truth is the design was a good one on it’s own, sans gems. I decided to add them as an after thought.
Like I mentioned----I was bored.
Tacky Bling sat next to me in 5th grade. His sister Marcia was a couple of years ahead of us. Surprised to hear his name show up here.
Best wishes.
Steve
Ha,Ha…That’s funny Steve.
Hard to tell, I guess the settings looked a bit more noticeable than what the traction of stippling and engraving of your other work would be. I’m sure there is a happy medium of traction between slippery and knurling, but I can’t say that I know where that is.
So are you doing your work on replacement heads for future sales or are some of these commissioned pieces?
Lip blisters. Also, none of this really makes the flute sound any better.
@ I.D.10-t This is me playing around with some of the “spare” HJ’s I have laying around the shop just for this type of purpose.
Casey is 100% correct. Doesn’t make the flute sound any better----Just makes it individual and personal.
The more of this kind of work you make and show, the less precious it becomes.
Seeing as this is a tradition of (for the most part) simplicity, you’re really marketing to the wrong audience with this gaudy sort of embellishment. All we need to make a flute “individual and personal” as you say is a simple carving on the headjoint or perhaps a well-placed scratch from years of happy playing. Seeing as most of our flutes are wooden, this sort of thing is doubly pointless.
However, I’m sure there’s a 13 year old girl out there somewhere looking to integrate rhinestones into yet more aspects of her life. Try the Junior Band forums over at Valley Middle School.
^^^ Oooh, saucer of milk for Table 5! 
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In other words, “Don’t go away mad, just go away”----that about right? LOL!
Have to say that (while I don’t actually want it myself) I’ve no problem with seeing it here…
However, I’m sure there’s a 13 year old girl out there somewhere looking to integrate rhinestones into yet more aspects of her life. Try the Junior Band forums over at Valley Middle School.
And (whether you like it or not) that’s seriously misjudging the quality and target market of Brian’s work!
I just find it funny after receiving overwhelmingly negative feedback on almost every post he’s made, he continues to toot his own horn, as if maybe we’ll all go out and by some GlitterFlutes ™ if he posts just one more sparkly picture. Heck, excepting a very few threads, he’s not even working on the same instrument we all play. Aren’t there craftsmanship forums out there you could join rather than doing your attention-seeking thing with the unappreciative?
As for target market, well, you can glue rhinestones to a flute for $3 or mount them professionally for $400, but the end result is still rhinestones on a flute. Not that that’s a narrow audience by any means; see http://www.friendshipismagic.org/forum/.