Any uses for a poison oak barrel?
-
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:36 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Dublin
Any uses for a poison oak barrel?
Bought an Oak whistle a while back here in Dublin, unfortunately the mouthpiece has the very nasty chemical smell and lip numbing effect described on this board previously. Washed it, but to no effect and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. So my question is: is it worth keeping it for the barrel?
- chas
- Posts: 7707
- Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2001 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 10
- Location: East Coast US
Oaks are wonderful barrels. I've put one on a Feadog head, and it's much better than the Feadog with its own shaft. Also, the Oak has one of the most in-tune cross-fingered C naturals.
Charlie
Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
Whorfin Woods
"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
- Jerry Freeman
- Posts: 6074
- Joined: Mon Dec 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Location: Now playing in Northeastern Connecticut
- Contact:
Definitely keep both the mouthpiece and barrel.
Oak tubes are very good, and you may find another whistlehead plays better on that tube than on its original one. And, of course, you can get a Gary Humphrey retrofit head or a Mack Hoover Whitecap (or both) for it.
I would say, put the whistlehead somewhere it will be exposed to air and forget about it. Check it every six months or so and eventually it should finish outgassing and become neutral. It might take a year or more (or less), but that whistlehead should eventually be OK.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Oak tubes are very good, and you may find another whistlehead plays better on that tube than on its original one. And, of course, you can get a Gary Humphrey retrofit head or a Mack Hoover Whitecap (or both) for it.
I would say, put the whistlehead somewhere it will be exposed to air and forget about it. Check it every six months or so and eventually it should finish outgassing and become neutral. It might take a year or more (or less), but that whistlehead should eventually be OK.
Best wishes,
Jerry
- FJohnSharp
- Posts: 3050
- Joined: Thu May 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Tell us something.: I used to be a regular then I took up the bassoon. Bassoons don't have a lot of chiff. Not really, I have always been a drummer, and my C&F years were when I was a little tired of the drums. Now I'm back playing drums. I mist the C&F years, though.
- Location: Kent, Ohio
- Chuck_Clark
- Posts: 2213
- Joined: Tue Jun 26, 2001 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Illinois, last time I looked
- Redwolf
- Posts: 6051
- Joined: Tue May 28, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 10
- Location: Somewhere in the Western Hemisphere
I second this recommendation. My Whitecap fit on my Oak barrel with little trouble, and it's a fine whistle now (and quite striking looking, really, with that shiney nickel body and white head).FJohnSharp wrote:I got a Hoover Whitecap for mine and it's nice. I recommend sending the barrel to Mack for fitting because the Oak tubes seem to be a little thicker and the fit is snug.
Redwolf
...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
- Jerry Freeman
- Posts: 6074
- Joined: Mon Dec 30, 2002 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 8
- Location: Now playing in Northeastern Connecticut
- Contact:
- Darwin
- Posts: 2719
- Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:38 am
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Flower Mound, TX
- Contact:
That's funny. I was just looking at my white oak jo, and thinking that it might make a nice whistle. The jo (actually, "o" is long, but I don't seem to have a macron available) is a short staff, about an inch in diameter, and the wood seems relatively smooth and dense, in contrast to my red oak bokken (wooden swords), which have that sort of heavily-pitted look. (I have a lot of odd martial arts stuff left over from my Aikido days.)Walden wrote:Oh! The title of this thread confused me! Mack and I had been discussing oak wood, and oak barrels, a couple days ago.
Mike Wright
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
--Goethe
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
--Goethe
- brewerpaul
- Posts: 7300
- Joined: Wed Jun 27, 2001 6:00 pm
- antispam: No
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 10
- Location: Clifton Park, NY
- Contact:
I would think that a poison oak whistle or flute would make cocuswood sensitization problems look trivial
I must be luck because neither of my Oaks (D and C) gives me any allergic reaction. I don't play the D that much anymore (I have other whistles that get more playtime) but still like it quite a bit. The C gets played some every day - I keep it in my desk at work.
I'll second the "keep it around unwrapped until it finishes outgassing" advice - Oaks are my favorite cheap whistles.
I must be luck because neither of my Oaks (D and C) gives me any allergic reaction. I don't play the D that much anymore (I have other whistles that get more playtime) but still like it quite a bit. The C gets played some every day - I keep it in my desk at work.
I'll second the "keep it around unwrapped until it finishes outgassing" advice - Oaks are my favorite cheap whistles.
- ChrisA
- Posts: 629
- Joined: Wed Apr 24, 2002 6:00 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Central MA
Further insight into the Oak problem, btw: I had dropped an oak in the woods,
(among birches, actually, thanks for asking), and not found it again until the following year,
meaning it had suffered all kinds of extremes of hot/cold/damp/dry (this is vermont woods
we're talking about), and lo and behold it has the 'chemical smell' and numb-lip effect that people have talked about.
So, I'm thinking the effect is caused by poor treatment, like storing in a 120+ degree warehouse for example, or a similarly extremely high (or low) temperature container car on a railroad siding somewhere...
--Chris
(among birches, actually, thanks for asking), and not found it again until the following year,
meaning it had suffered all kinds of extremes of hot/cold/damp/dry (this is vermont woods
we're talking about), and lo and behold it has the 'chemical smell' and numb-lip effect that people have talked about.
So, I'm thinking the effect is caused by poor treatment, like storing in a 120+ degree warehouse for example, or a similarly extremely high (or low) temperature container car on a railroad siding somewhere...
--Chris