my new olive wood whistles by Tommy

[Anglorfin]

The grain of that wood is beautiful.

[talasiga]

The white delrin fipple plug looks very classy, I haven't seen that before.

In my experience wooden plugs are better than metal or plastics. Less clogging.

Yes, the olive is a beautiful wood and for aesthetic considerations also I would like to see an olive plug. Olive at the heart, so to speak.

Please take my opinions here with a grain of Aegean salt as I am merely a music maker and not an instrument maker.

My best wishes to Blackhawk!

[blackhawk]

The white delrin fipple plug looks very classy, I haven't seen that before.

In my experience wooden plugs are better than metal or plastics. Less clogging.

Yes, the olive is a beautiful wood and for aesthetic considerations also I would like to see an olive plug. Olive at the heart, so to speak.

Please take my opinions here with a grain of Aegean salt as I am merely a music maker and not an instrument maker.

My best wishes to Blackhawk!

Thank you, my friend Talasiga!

[blackhawk]

Wowww!! fantastic!! pretty whistle, what is your price???

I'm not selling these, AlonE, but thanks.

so, the flipp is of Derlin?

I think so, AlonE, but you'll need to PM Tommy to be sure.

[blackhawk]

Cool! What happens if you blow into the fipples?

It makes a nice sound.

[blackhawk]

Olivewood is glorious stuff. Do yours still have that olive aroma in the wood? When I machine olivewood, the smell is almost intoxicating.

I wish I could answer that, Paul, but where I live it's hay fever season, and I wish I could smell a lot of things right now.

[IDAwHOa]

Amazing looks. Olive is why I switched from Mopane for my Bleazy's:

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=49255

The brass does show off the olive quite well and I also think a wooden fipple plug would look nicer.

[Tommy]

The white delrin fipple plug looks very classy, I haven't seen that before.

Thank you King. For those that ask for wood or garlic. I will have the wood very soon, and the garlic! I'll try later.

[Tommy]

very beautiful, kind of looks like a Schultz or Busman. i hope the sound is as good.

I hope it's not...

Just kidding Tommy-- I hope you do well with these. They look beautiful.
I see you're working on a C: with the same ID and OD, you can also make Eb. Pushing any higher or lower would not work out too well though.

Thank you Paul, and again thanks for the susgestions you emailed to me. They worked. The olive wood does have an aroma when turning it, but seems to dissipate later. Like most hardwoods it takes a very nice natural shine to it. I just have to be careful, and not shine it to much. Shade said the curly maple tour whistle was beautiful to look at. But was almost to smooth to hold on to.

[Thomas-Hastay]

Beautiful instrument! Did you seal it up with wax? acrylic?

Would you consider leaving more thickness at the voiceing window? a deeper window/labium provides more acoustic stability. Increased thickness at the lowest hole location will let you shift all of the toneholes lower and even out the diameters for equal loudness across the scale.

[Tommy]

Beautiful instrument! Did you seal it up with wax? acrylic?

The inside has a lite coat of almond oil. There is nothing on the outside except a lot of hand rubbing. To me there is something more appealing with smooth wood than a clear coat of something that you look through.