Here’s the latest flute in Bb, headed to a player in Chico California. There is just one tiny flaw in the wood - a tiny knot on the backside of the foot joint.
Some would consider the grey staining a flaw as well but I actually like what it looks like on the unstained background. And if the piece of wood has figure, and is otherwise flawless, I will use it! I have a fair bit of this figured wood.
Casey
Note - the distortion is from the camera. This flute is as straight as an arrow!
I’m starting to twitch. Thanks for the look Casey.
Feadoggie
Beautiful Flute Casey!
Russ
wow ! beautiful, thanks for posting.
Oooo… tasty. 
Hi Casey
Noting that you shot this at your camera’s minimum zoom (a hunch confirmed by checking the photo’s EXIF info), I’d suggest shooting at a longer focal length (zooming in a bit) from further away to minimise such distortions. If you’ve got the resolution/quality to keep the instrument away from the edges as well and crop the shot later (which you must have done to at least the long sides here given its shape?) that’s even better, but the first trick is probably the best start in avoiding that all-too-common (not just in your photo) ‘bent’ look!
Cheers
P
(Edited to correct ‘minimal’ to ‘minimum’.)
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve actually got a Photoshop application to un-destort photos somewhere. I was using macro, from about 2’ away to fill the screen. Its usually just to document the flute so if I se it later on, I’m able to compare. Thus usually I don;t worry about such things (usually I am in too much of a rush to get these into the mail to worry about being a photographer!).
Casey
Casey, you and I have the same problem. We have what we need “somewhere”.
Nice looking flute, by the way. It looks like one of those magical boxwood flutes, if I am not mistaken.
OK, in which case I’d still recommend moving the camera back and zooming in as being an effectively instantaneous route to ‘straighter’ documented flutes! 
Cheers
P
If ya’d just put the flute a bit beyond the eaves and climb up on the roof…
I’m all ears with regard to comments about focal length and straight-flute photography.
By the way, Casey, when I try to ask a question or make a comment at your ebay ad, why does Grey Larsen reply to me? Is he your boss? Here I thought that you were a small, independent flutemaker and not part of a larger consortium.
yer gonna need one of those feathers, they don’t look near big enough to get ya airborn
FWIW, I’ve found putting the flute on the floor and standing up (sometimes on a chair) to be enough! 
That’s interesting, Doug. The link you gave goes to Grey’s eBay Store - Grey Larsen Music but the item’s location is out Casey’s way in Kingston. If you look at the other items in Grey’s store, at this point Susato whistles, they all seem to show Bloomington as the location of the item, which I think is where Grey resides. So it would appear that Grey is a reseller of both products but the flutes ship from Casey’s in Kingston. Does that make any sense?
Feadoggie
yes, I’ve done that…worked fine
Casey isn’t quite as tall as I am…
Yes, Grey didn’t explain it to me, said it was complicated. I’m trying to give him some ideas to embed some links to websites and audio files on the ebay description page. It was my idea to revise the ebay photo and use the 3-piece model instead of the small photo of the assembled flute that he had been using. Before, Casey’s ad was getting lost in a maze of attractive but awful Pakistani flutes at a fraction of the price.
To help the confused: Grey is one of my few retailers.
I usually sell most of my flutes directly but do have a few online and brick and mortar outlets who also carry my flutes, or at least market them, and take orders.
All I wanted to do here was to post a pretty picture of one of my recent flutes. My business practices and relationships shouldn’t really be part of this discussion.
Casey
Sorry for interjecting an attempt at humor into your simple intent of showing off a pretty picture. Of course, I know that you are a one-man operation and that Grey Larsen is not your boss. To speculate that he may be, I think is humorous, and with the things going on in this world, I want to grab on to any bit of humor that I can, hopefully not at your expense. You are obviously not part of a large consortium. You do your own thing. I have ongoing ebay ads of my own, so as I look through the ebay pages of ads, I saw what I thought was an ebay ad that you were managing yourself. Hence, I tried to contact you through the ad to make suggestions. I though that I was doing you a favor by including the link to the ad in my comments on this forum. It may be good for business, you know. Posting on a social network like the C&F flute forum, you expose yourself to someone like myself who may take the discussion in an unintended direction. Again, I’m sorry for the detour.