Dogwood Olwell Arrived Today...Now with Pix!

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Cool! Jessie, agree or disagree: it looks just like boxwood in color, but the grain is "wrong." Vis-à-vis boxwood.

Very nice! I didn't realize you went whole-hog on it. It's quite a looker!

I wonder what it would be like to put something like this in a tanning bed, if you really wanted it to "turn" quickly? Do they even still sell sunlamps?

Or maybe you could just use some of that spray-on-tanning stuff. ;)

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Yes, Stuart. I agree that the grain is different from boxwood.
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I was just asking because it's been a LONG time since I saw any boxwood.

Golly, I didn't mean it as snotty or snooty or nothin'! Serious question!

It really does look like boxwood with a different grain. That's all.

Sheesh! I'm not Mr. Negativepants.


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Somebody else mentioned the color similarity to fresh-turned boxwood. Of course the grain is different, and is starting to show more character with darkening, but isn't all that remarkable looking as flute woods go.

BTW, the body section has a slightly different coloring from the head, barrel and foot, which are more reddish by comparison. Patrick asked did I want more color uniformity, but that wasn't so important to me for a couple of reasons: added visible individuality of the stick itself, and I wanted to see if and how the differences even out over time.

The flute is numbered 692, BTW. Working on The Farting Badger, today, which I've neglected far too long. Gotta love the name. No wonder it gets billed as "Tommy Peoples'" on CDs! :lol:
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The flute is very simple but very elegant. I love the way it looks.
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Absolutely gorgeous! :party:
Enjoy that thing. Love it. Play it every day. My Olwell gets more and more lovely every time I play it. Seriously, I think it just (after 2 years) finally got really broken in. One day I picked it up and it was like a new instrument. Just incredible. Fantastic crack, deep tone, amazingly responsive. I love it.
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One of our band's sets has me starting out soloing, with bodhrán, The Otter's Holt on the flute. Working on that at practice, last evening, it was as if the flute drove me as much as I drove it. It's a living thing, I swear.
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I really love being able to see the grain. With all four blackwood fluts I've had they arrived with beautiful reddish colors in them and shimmering bits of light inside, but darkened after a month or so and ended up "Black. Pure black. It's kind of an off-black, a pastel sort of black". No really, it's blacker than my liberal heart.
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LOL, Chris! :lol:

Why, then, mine's paler than me lily-white arse!
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