Generation vs. blowtorch

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Wed May 12, 2004 7:15 pm

Now you guys tell me. The head is not supposed to touch the cup. I guess I will buy another Oak too. But I wanted a white cap now I have an excuse.

Ron

OutOfBreath · Post by **OutOfBreath** » Thu May 13, 2004 7:10 am

Hmmm, a blowtorch seems like overkill. A hammer worked fine for me.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Thu May 13, 2004 7:14 am

OutOfBreath wrote:Hmmm, a blowtorch seems like overkill. A hammer worked fine for me.

Truly spoken by the man who ran his Gen over with a car (on my advice, no less).

Chuck_Clark · Post by **Chuck_Clark** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:14 pm

amar wrote:blowtorch against a generation???

How do you play a blowtorch?

Bloomfield wrote:Truly spoken by the man who ran his Gen over with a car (on my advice, no less).

No doubt it improved it...

amar · Post by **amar** » Thu May 13, 2004 1:16 pm

Chuck_Clark wrote:
amar wrote:blowtorch against a generation???
How do you play a blowtorch?

with hot lips baby, with very hot lips..

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu May 13, 2004 3:10 pm

amar wrote:blowtorch against a generation???

Final score:
Blowtorch = 1
Generation = 0

amar wrote:one word:

eeeeeeeeeeeeedjitttt!!!!!!

no offence

None taken, Amar. I actully felt like an eeeeeeeeeeeeedjitttt as I was pulling the melted head off the tube. It was a Homer Simpson moment. D-OH!

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Fri May 14, 2004 1:29 am

Paul, what in the world were you thinking? "What, plastic can MELT??!!" I think this is the most over-the-top attempt of tweaking I have ever heard of...

Jens

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:48 am

Feadog heads, both D and C, come off nice n easy after a few moments under running hot water. I've put a Feadog D head on my Doolin two-piece (which originally had the worst made head I've ever seen) and a Feadog C head on a Walton Mellow D tube (sounds *nice*... or at least it would in the hands of a competent whistler).

Gen Ds come off under running hot water too, but those Cs... I've never managed to get one off without damage. I prefer Feadogs anyway, so no biggie.

rkottke · Post by **rkottke** » Fri May 14, 2004 6:11 am

If the people who make the Generation Whistle read this message board, they must be getting a blast out of it. Here we are a group of people destroying their product in the process of trying to improve it! Has anyone ever tried to contact the manufacture of the Generation Whistle to see if the Whistle could be purchased without the head glued on? Just think, they could charge us more for a product that took less manufacturing steps!

This raises another question, who makes the Generation Whistle? Do they have a Web site, email address, or mailing address?

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Fri May 14, 2004 2:14 pm

rkottke wrote:who makes the Generation Whistle? Do they have a Web site, email address, or mailing address?

This was posted a while back, and saved in my bookmarks:
http://www.barnhide.co.uk/
They also make other instruments, like kazoos!