EDIT: SOLD to a very lucky member of this wonderful community
Hello all,
Due to a finicial crunch that mysteriously appeared, Im having to sell my busman. Its about three months old, made of birds eye maple and is probably one of the best manufactured whistles I’ve ever played. The wood has darkened a bit, its a lovely brown now. The tone is gorgious, with a subtle little bit of chiff and moderate backpressure, tunings spot on (in fact, Paul wanted to keep it a little longer to play himself 
). Anyway, I’m asking US $180 for it shipping inside the US, talk to me about outside or overseas shipping.
PM me if you’re interested.
David
I don’t usually reply to threads about my whistles, but in this case I wanted to add something.
This is really interesting timber called “salvage timber”. About 100 yrs ago, they used to log the old growth, virgin forests around the Great Lakes and float the logs to the sawmill. Many of them sank and sat on the bottom of the lakes for all these years. Now, people are hauling them up and sawing them into amazingly good wood. They were down deep enough where there is little oxygen and as a result, the wood is as good as the day it was sawn.
That is very good indeed-- in the old growth forests with a thick tree cover, new trees grew very slowly with extremely tight graining, much better than anything growing today. Check out:
http://www.oldlogs.com/
There’s this Busman for sale and there’s also a Birdseye Maple Busman in the Jerry Freeman raffle. For anyone looking for a great addition to your collection, you might consider buying this or getting in on the raffle.
I just received my new Busman this past Saturday (April 3). It was one of the whistles that helped Paul win his first place prize in the Northeastern Woodworkers Association Show a couple of weeks ago…
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=18732
As everyone always is, I was very excited to get my new whistle. I started playing it as soon as I unwrapped it. The worst part about it is I was limited to only 20 minutes (you have to limit playing initially to allow the wood to adapt to the drool/humidity/evapotranspiration gradually). I didn’t want to stop playing. Paul does a beautiful job and all the notes just ring out. The sound is moderately loud (not as loud as my Susatos) and has a warmness to it that probably comes from the wood. Nothing like having an instrument that will just improve with age.
[quote=“Montana”]I just received my new Busman this past Saturday (April 3). It was one of the whistles that helped Paul win his first place prize in the Northeastern Woodworkers Association Show a couple of weeks ago…
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=18732
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Not first place: it was third in the “miscellaneous” category. I’m not complaining. This was my first competition, and there was some really first rate woodworking there.