Hi everyone!
I need to make space in my cramped workshop for teaching a pair of beginning guitar makers this winter and so I am going to start auctioning off stuff that I should probably keep but haven’t used ever and wanted to post a notice here to wake everyone up to this. Some instruments, a collection of reject flute, bagpipe and whistle parts that someone will find interesting, and tooling of various sorts. Currently an old instrument that sold but then I never got paid for it. You will never see one of these in new condition - a Double Flageolet by Burns. Ends Thursday.
Next up are some lathe tools that came with the Myford ML-10 that I redid as a semi-automatic profiling lathe. Things like 3 and 4 jawed chucks, centers, lathe dogs, face plates, etc. I have the same for my Super 7 and don’t need to hang on to all that metal.
After that some various surplus woodworking tools - chisels, gouges, planes, etc. Also some Japanese waterstones.
10% of the auction proceeds from all of these will be going to www.arghand.org started by fellow flute player and former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes who is now doing wonderful agricultural peace work in Afghanistan. She is my hero!!!
Still coming this winter is a flute turning video instruction, which will include my Rudall design acoustics which I am planning to discontinue (you heard it here first). Why am I discontinuing it? Because I am mostly interested in my own designs now - not someone elses. Also, my RudallReamer for it is worn, I don’t want to bother making another, and I want to convert this worn out reamer to my C flute designs meaning I’ll no longer have a Rudall reamer. The Rudall is a great flute. Its just not MY flute which is as good or better. Am planning to sell the video standalone as well as the video plus plans. My silversmithing methods will also be featured.
But don’t expect me to perform as a session player on this video to demonstrate the flutes. I couldn’t keep up in a session to save my life! I practice flute as little as possible and that is actually better for my flute making. Keeps my embouchure weak and soft and it forces my flutes to do all the work for me - which is why most can get a sound out of them. At 28 years in to this, I don’t mind sharing this very important trade secret.
Finally the long awaited bagpipe reed making video that I did with Brian Steeger in 2001-2002 will be out as soon as I do some re-editing and reshooting. Called “Reed it and Weep”.
If the Lyme Disease clears up from all the Cipro and other drugs I am on - I’ll get this stuff out in the world sooner.
Coming up - I will be a guest caller on a popular Public Radio Show Network broadcast nationally and available as a free podcast on iTunes. As soon as they have inserted the segment we just recorded earlier today into the program and tell me when, I’ll announce it here and on my website. Has nothing to do about flutes (or cars with snakes, like last time. That was a different show!).
Casey