Here are two whistles ready to ship-- they just need a final buffing.
The top is a Kingwood D with stainless steel fittings.
Second one down is Burmese Blackwood D+, also stainless steel fittings.
You can’t easily see it in the photo, but the Burmese Blackwood has a lot more visible grain than the African variety. It’s also a very hard, dense wood.
The samples below are a new material I’m trying along the lines of Dymondwood. It’s a Birch impregnated with phenolic resins and laminated under extreme pressure. These colors are VERY bright and vibrant. I mistakenly photographed two blue pieces: one should have been purple. So far, the material seems to machine well. I’ll post pictures of finished whistles as they emerge.
