No Gundrills?! 
No Metal Lathes and Milling machines?!? 
No store bought vitamin E Enriched Almond Oil!?!?! 
Next thing ya know the guy will be making Ferraris up on that hill top.
Um Colin, I think it best you not show him any aluminum tubingā¦
Loren
Terrific story. Great whistles. Mine is in A.
Dale
lovely picsā¦makes one want oneā¦hmmm by all means get those whistles out into the world!!!
berti 
Sounds like a 3 year wait, to me.
ā¦does look appealing, though.
JP
Wait a minute. When did this board start showing edits?
They look and sound (description wise, that is) wonderful! I would be interested in obtaining one if I donāt have to hock something importantā¦ Iām on the low end of the financial wall here, LOL, and although I donāt think I exactly qualify for !Whoa!, I know a beautiful thing when I sees it, matey!
Ah, wellā¦ another thing to add to the āwhen I win the lotteryā listā¦ and the 'after we replace the recently defunct freezer and the terminally ill Ford, and get my whistles tweeked by Jerry, and put a propper case around my Martin, and a lot of other necessities. 
Colin, may I put myself on a waiting list? please? Iād like a skinned one.
thanks. 
No WhOA, or financial wherewithal here, but wow! Wouldnāt mind playing one of these shepherdās pipes either!
Ha ha you have a martin? I almost got a job making them. The plant is only a few miles from here. I got a job working for Binney and Smith making Crayola Crayons, because it paid more. I should have picked martinā¦ maybe I would still work THERE. We have more Elder trees around here than you can shake an Elder stick atā¦ maybe Iāll go make an offering and hopefully get a few branches 
ā¦ My grandmother used to make Elderberry Preserves and Elderberry wine. Both delicious, a big sppon full of preserves on a nice pan sized flapjack, roll that bad boy up and eat it like theyāre meant to be eatenā¦ not smothered in that crappy syrup stuff.
Later
Cy
note: flap jack= pancake
Yup, a very old and wonderful 0021ā¦ I love it, but its original case succumed to age and useā¦ anew one is needed.
As for the Elder wood, hereās another case of the tree mixed up with the plant - Elder wood comes from a tree, while elder berries come from a bushy plantā¦ and boy they are good!
āYour mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or we shall taunt you some more!ā
Thatās what comes to mind when i hear about elderberries.
Whatās that from, Glauber? There is a tiny little tinkling of what might be a bell in the back of my mindā¦ LOLā¦
Methinks it be Monty Python and The Holy Grailā¦
Ah..Yes.. Wellā¦ Now, for something completely differentā¦
WHAT is your name?
WHATāS your favorite color?
WHATāS the average rainfall in the Amazon Basin?
ā Whatās your name?
ā Launcelot.
ā Whatās your Quest?
ā The Grail.
ā Whatās your favourite colour?
ā Blue! No! Itās red! Aaaaaaaagh!
Yes, the bit about the elderberries is what the French knights say to the Brits before they start throwing livestock at them (cherchez la vache!).
One of the greatest quotes of all time!!! My avatar inspiration 
āI faht en your general direction!ā
Um then why is it that all Arborial studdies show Elderberry Tree, as another name for and Elder tree? I donāt know about a ābushyā plant but I have personaly clipped many a bucket of elderberries, for wine and preserves, and I have had to use a step ladder many times. The Tree doesnāt grow any larger than 30" and I have plucked Berries from quite a few 20 footersā¦ thatās a big bush Takes a lot of berries to make jam. For some reason they like to grow along old railroad bedsā¦
http://www.2020site.org/trees/elder.html
Cyfiawnder
peace in the Light /|\
Hmmmā¦ wellā¦ the plant that I know as Elderberry is not capable of becoming a tree though it makes for some fine fruit ā¦ perhaps Mulberry?