Improved whistle

[Drstrangefart]

These are getting kinda fun to make. I managed to make a better one by skipping the closed end. I glued the cap from a red enameled Slim in there. Made the reed out of Corian as it was still mostly shaped from the last one and it's stable, especially as precariously as it was perched between the end of the mandrel and the live center to do that.(Drilled about 2 inches at 7mm and slid a Slimline tube in there, slid that over the end of the mandrel and made sure it was clamped against bushings) It's loud, takes little wind power and breaks octave pretty easily, so it should be fun. Brooks803 blank.

 

[3Peake]

Thats smart,what shape do you cut the read?
Could you not have put the end of a keyring in so it could be fastened on with keys?

 

[boxerman]

Very cool whistle. Nice job.

 

[johnnycnc]

cool! nice work.

 

[Drstrangefart]

Thats smart,what shape do you cut the read?
Could you not have put the end of a keyring in so it could be fastened on with keys?

There's a reed on the second one. It's made the same way.

I had the thought of doing the keyring, but lacked the fob. I turned the reed round down to a bit below tube size and flattened the top on my bench grinder. Cut it off with a bit of extra, glued it in and ground the extra off. Used micromesh to clean it up.