The Low F is bloody, but unbowed. Thanks for your condolences and concern Zub, Bloomfield, and Loren. I just successfully completed the amatuerish repair with crazy glue, and Grinter is growling again. DOesn’t look bad either; some careful sculpting of a couple layers with ultra fine steel wool. Let’s see how it endures.
Just supports what I’ve always believed - there isn’t anything that Advil or Crazy Glue can’t cure!
Regards,
PhilO
Good for you Phil, glad to hear the Grinter lives!
Loren
Great!
So, when can I get my greasy paws on it?
Smoke signals from under the Bridge in Brooklyn suggest perhaps…February…
PhilO
All is well that ends well…
I wouldn’t mind a good whistle having a stitched crack–perhaps because I’m not collector-minded after all.
This also should serve as caveat for those who tend to buy timber for its looks, disregarding the old masters of past who favoured (in hardwoods) Afr. blackwood and some not all rosewoods. More recently, cocobolo seems to bring a general consensus as a “surviving” wood. Btw, Michael Grinter wrote to me in Spring that from now on he intends to stick to cocobolo whistles…
Also, a well-glued crack may well be the last one. See the NA flutes: most of them are of a split, carved, glued construction. They were stressed by the lathe, and whatever internal stress was in the wood was relieved by the splitting, planing, gluing. My cabinetmakers friends all tell me it’s the way to go…
Yeah well, that’s why they are cabinet makers and not flute makers 
Loren
P.S. Did Michael G. mention (specifically) why he was sticking with Cocobolo?
Sure, and you could pull the same truism about ship carpenters… but there’s a lot of lore in cross-technology, rather cross-craftsmanship in this case. Make a solid mast, and it will warp by itself and/or break under effort.
Also there’s a lot of three-century-old furnitures–or luthery in its prime sense (strings)–to prove the cabinet makers’ two-bits worth.
No, he just discouraged my inquire about other woods: "I am making nearly all of my whistles from Cocobolo now - the F whistle you would be getting is no exception - it is made form Cocobolo with brass mounts. (sic)
Yeah, but no one has been blowing up the dresser’s drawers every day either, have they? At least I hope not 
Loren
Y’know, Loren, that could really be taken wrong, depending on whether the dresser in question is a piece of furniture or a person who helps you get dressed…
Steven
Heh Heh, my intention precisely
Loren
Good, as long as you don’t twist my quote as an opportunity to blow in a century-old Lutheran’s prime sense… 