Well, I’m not selling right now. Getting ready to move and trying to finish up the last few instruments promised before I do so. Don’t know if I’ll make it, but should come close. I’ll ramp it back up in a couple months when I get settled in. For now, don’t order anything, unless you’re willing to wait a long time to get it! 
I found one of the first whistles I ever made, while cleaning the shop up. Copper with a cherry wood fipple plug, brass pin, kind of rough-and-ready looking square-end head, beak too short to be comfortable. It sounded good. Too bad it’s out of tune too far to fix. Thought about cutting the head off and making it into a tunable with a properly-drilled barrel, then thought, why do that? It’s kind of my history. So I’m gonna keep it, sloppy looking workmanship, out of tune and all. Not #1, but not far down the line.
I’m going to miss my little, cramped, messy shop. I know the next one won’t be nearly as hard to work in, as I know how to put one together now for max efficiency, but I’ll still miss the teensy bench, 2 big drill presses crowding the floor space with a big bandsaw, milling machine clear over on the other side of the room - not convenient at all, and the wood lathe I use for polishing. The little jeweller’s lathe’s motor bit the dust a few weeks ago, and I’ve been using an old battery-op DeWalt drill to run it for the last few things I needed to complete. Not convenient, just functional. I’ll replace the lathe motor when I get to the other place, wherever it is, or else I’ll replace the lathe with a bigger one with a larger spindle bore. I like being able to shove a whistle clear through the headstock to turn a decoration without having to use supports.
Most people here on C&F have been really nice to me. Supportive, and I have appreciated it, and will continue to. Thanks to all of you for giving me some motivation to improve, too, and to be kinder and nicer to people here on this forum, for which I also thank Dale Wisely immensely. The few barneys I’ve had with folks kind of vanish in the bright light of friends made and kept, reviews like the one Dan Fernandez just did that made ME want to buy a MolyBrass! 
the critiques from Jessie and others… this is starting to sound like a “goodbye”, and it really isn’t. It’s just a “hang loose for a bit, make music, have fun… I’ll be back and join ya in a while” like heading for the loo during a really good session!
So, hang loose, make music, have a beverage of your choice.. nah… Have a beer - preferably a good bitter - save one for me.
I’ll be back…
Bill Whedon
