Hi,
I just finished Eilam’s M&E Xtreme makeover, thought I would share it with you. Gave it a little more contour in the first joint and added silver rings.
It’s amazing that it is the same flute, it really changes the look…
Jon
it looks great!
i’m waiting for my 6 key rudall to arrive. stalks the postie 
Tastefully done, Jon. Excellent sense of proportion! Graceful and sleek.
Foxacious, in fact.
Thanks Peggy.
Here is a Cookstown Ironwood R&R that I also just finished for Eilam also.
Jon
How nice! It’s beautiful!
And, oooooh! What looooovely rings! I had no idea they were so detailed!
I’m afraid to ask . . . do you make them for . . . fingers . . . ???
Thanks, I haven’t made any rings for fingers, but I do where them around a while, before sticking them on the flutes… 
WOW. Very nice work indeed Jon. Do you have a pricelist? I want to add you to the list of potentiall flute makers to order a flute from. I love the looks of your work. Also, what modells do you make and what woods do you have in stock, wait list? Please PM or e-mail me.
You do lovely work!
You know, somehow that “before” pic of the M&E looks awfully familiar! 
Curiosity: do you feel that the flute plays or handles differently due to the work you did?
–James
I do not believe that looks should have any thing to do with a flute. The sound is more important. That being said, weakness in me says that I would rather have a pretty flute that plays the same as a less pretty one.
PS. Just wondering, are the rings lost wax?
Hi James,
The flute has more of a flute feel, less of holding a piece of pipe…
Not to knock the M&E, the flute has a very nice sound, that is why Eilam wanted to fix it up, because he liked it so much. I turned a little off the first section, didn’t alter the tuning at all.
Your right in a Zen sort of way. But following this thinking, it shouldn’t matter if your scrambled eggs are green…
It is all part of the movie.
The rings are made from pattern wire. I would like to get into lost wax at some point.
Jon
Jon C. Check your PM’s. Thanks.
I clicked the little box with a red X and up comes a page about hosting with a frog picture on it. I did na see a flute picture. Tell me what to do.
Jon, I sent the antlers and some ivory vegetable nuts the other day. As soon as it gets warm and the blossems come out, I’ll find a dogwood and send a few billits. They will be green, though. I have been told that a bland after drilling can be microwaved as a minni-kiln dryer. Until recently I had a dogwood mallet that had been used in the lumber woods since 1902. I have steel wedges and mallets that tour up much easier. I’ll bet it is good stuff for a flute. I remember a year ago, someone had Owell make him a dogwood flute.
Anyhow, tell me how to get your picture.
Nelson
Never mind, I got the picture.
Nelson
Wow Jon, it looks an awfully lot like your delrin flutes, although the rings aren’t brass. Now you can do my M&E 
Hows that Manzanita drying out?
That would be me. Dogwood’s very hard and tough, although it responds very rapidly to humidity changes, and so reasonably diligent humidifying is important to keep the wood up to snuff. Every now and then I’ve had to temporarily apply a bit of teflon tape to the barrel tenon because of shrinkage despite my best efforts, and the tenon will swell up noticeably after long playing. It MIGHT be less prone to cracking at the headjoint than most woods, and probably is, but I’m not willing to experiment on Olwell flutes in that regard!
Great sounding flutewood in any case. 
Wow Jon, it looks an awfully lot like your delrin flutes, although the rings aren’t brass. Now you can do my M&E >
I was thinking of your flute, when I was working on eilam’s… For those that don’t know, Michael has a very early version of an M&E, even more pipeish.
Hows that Manzanita drying out?
Last time I looked it was checking. 
But maybe we can still get a whistle out of it…
Jon
Well, my thought was M&E flutes have thick walls and are heavy…I’ve always wondered if reducing the wall thickness wouldn’t change the way the flute handled and played.
Bear in mind, I love M&E flutes, and I think they represent tremendous value for the money. But I always wonder at the “what if’s”, too.
–James
Some of the strong tone may come from the fact that the walls a 6mm thick. Making the walls thinner would alter the tuning some, as the chimney depth on the tone holes would be shallower. I found the flute to be tuned about 30 cents flat, with the tuning slide in., so maybe it wouldn’t hurt, a little thinning. I don’t think anyone wants to donate there flute to find out though… 
Jon
I didn’t think about the chimney depth…you’re right.
The note about the tuning is a bit odd, though. With the tuning slide all the way in, my M&E R&R flute is about 20 cents sharp relative to A=440, and my original model M&E is about 16 cents sharp.
The Seery is comparable; it’s about 20 cents sharp with the slide all the way in as well.
I am a pretty hard blower on flute, though…perhaps that’s why?
–James