I own a really, really, really old low D bamboo flute by Erik the Flutemaker. I love it. It’s fun to play and, until recently, durable as heck. Well, I pulled it out and started playing the other day, and it sounded horrible (in a very thin, weak sort of way) I discovered a four-inch crack at the end of the flute and nearly cried. … Okay … Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but I was rather woeful.
Anyway, short of binding it closed with duct tape, I really don’t know what to do. Does anyone have a better idea? If not, I’m going to go the duct tape route – but I’m gonna make it a really cool style of duct tape. LOL.
super glue, the very thin stuff that will flow
thread wrap after, something esthetically less challenged than duct tape JMHO
lay a loop over the area to be wrapped, leave a tail, and wrap toward the loop…tightly
tuck the end through the loop and pull the tail until the loop is just hidden
cut off the end & tail
put super glue on the wrapping
In Native American flutes and shak’s, glue and binding is recommended. If interested, I can give you a url that will talk about it? I have done with a lot of success for bamboo and river bottom cane.
That is it. Thanks. I got sail thread from one of the sources. It works very well and good advice on sealing after binding. I have done it on bamboo and stabilized cracks that way.
Ah! You folks are great! Thanks! … A hangman’s noose. … Those things come in handy for doing something other than … um … hanging things? Hahahaha! I’ll check that out, as well as the binding links. Those look nice.
Thanks again. Like so many others, I don’t have the funds to just get another one, and to be honest, I love this particular flute.
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Like so many others, I don’t have the funds to just get another one, and to be honest, I love this particular flute. 