Rod and Casey measure a couple of bores...

[Casey Burns]

(taken while visiting Rod Cameron in his workshop last week)

[Gabriel]

Now that is a caliper.

[radcliff]

MUhahahahahahah! that's a good one!!!
will this improve your flutes somehow? :- D

[Casey Burns]

Lightweight aluminum. $9 at Harbor Tool. But watch out for that expansion coefficient!

[Doug_Tipple]

I see that you both like green shirts, which surely reveals that you shop in Army Surplus stores. No too long ago it was fashionable to measure different aspects of the human head with calipers much like in the photo. It was widely believed that these measurements would yield important information about human intelligence and other human characteristics, an idea which has been discredited, especially after the abuses of these ideas (eugenics) by Nazi Germany.

[LorenzoFlute]

So who has longer flutes?

[MTGuru]

it was fashionable to measure different aspects of the human head with calipers much like in the photo ... an idea which has been discredited, especially after the abuses of these ideas (eugenics) by Nazi Germany.

Technically, phrenology/craniometry and eugenics are two separate issues, and not necessarily linked.

For example, one could be fascinated by the obviously bizarre size of Casey's skull without wanting to create an entire race of super-Caseys. In fact, I think super-Caseys are explicitly banned by the United Nations charter.

As for the coefficient of expansion ... All known attempts to determine this value for flutemakers' heads have met with failure. The measuring equipment simply doesn't go that high.

[benhall.1]

I'll take a Rod action flute and a simple Casey for it.

[crookedtune]

Casey may win on size, but Rod's got the honker.

[Casey Burns]

Come on people! You are getting confused by the perspective and the distortion! Objects in view may be larger or smaller than they appear.

[Holmes]

If that's how makers come to look, I'm staying out of the workshop...
H
Save your hot air for blowing down your flute
Holmes Mooney & Wood play; The Laird Of McNabb - http://www.box.net/shared/5tx0jxtd7cbbgjfsjkp0 (Holmes McNaughton D Blackwood eight key).
http://youtu.be/zrNs33H7uxY Cuig Emag reel - How Sweet The Name of Peggy..
http://www.box.com/s/fvvfmefsrommgx7084zg B min Jig D 8 Key

[dlambert]

See Mahalanobis distance. Something useful came from measuring skulls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_distance