The whistles are all spoken for! I’ll hopefully have another batch in a month or two.
Well, I’ve finally got enough stock to market whistles from my first two batches. Here are a couple of pics, hopefully scaled properly so that they don’t cause all hell to break loose for browsers nor hang up those on dial-up.
Left to right:
Yew, Mk0 with Asian boxwood fittings, not for sale
dogwood (a tree I cut down myself), MkII, this and all the rest have brass fittings, not for sale
Three Mk II’s
padouk (gone)
bocote (claimed)
cocobolo (one of the prettiest pieces of wood I’ve seen) (gone)
Five Mk I’s
Three in rosewood, I think Honduran, although a couple of pieces claimed to be purpleheart
Two in cocobolo, one piece of which is the darkest damn coco I’ve ever seen. (dark coco claimed)
These are somewhat based on the Abell/Schultz/Busman design. The walls are thinner (5/8 OD, so 1/16 wall), fittings are made from standard tubing.
I’ll charge $50 for the Mk I’s; I was tweaking the design and several of them cracked at the female part of the slide. An undersized reamer. 
They’ve been stable for a year.
The QC on the Mk II’s is a lot better. I’ll charge $75 for those. None cracked, the sound is much more uniform, the tuning better. My teacher, a fantastic flute player who can hold his own on whistle, called the dogwood whistle perfect, the best whistle he’s ever played. The dogwood is for him; he’ll hopefully be recording a couple of clips that I’ll upload. (I’m just too out of practice on the whistle.)
None of these whistles will come with guarantees, although if you hate the whistle I’ll take it back. The first generation are pretty rough, even the second generation are far from “visually perfect.”
I’m just making whistles to get used to wood turning. These are the last of the extremely thin-walled with the brass fittings (except possibly a couple of undersized pink ivory turning squares I got). The next batch will be basically the same, with acetal fittings. A final batch will be conical, a Bleazey/Swayne type design, on which I’ll be cutting my teeth for reamer making. Baby flutes.
All prices include shipping within the US. Click on the email or PM buttons with questions or to purchase. I’ll think about taking orders from other countries, will charge shipping.
Thanks and best wishes.
Edited to add: In keeping with all my hobbies except winemaking, I’ll name my venture after something from Buckaroo Banzai: Whorfin Whistles, a division of Yoyodyne Industries. Other divisions include Bogbootee Brewery and Chateau Therrieault. I’ll have to slomo through the list of names to come up with something alliterative for the flutes when they come.
And I’ll edit to indicate which whistles have been claimed.
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