I make uilleann pipes & sell some reedmaking supplies.
After much procrastination I have upgraded and added to my website:
http://www.lightlink.com/nwhitmer
I have added pictures, descriptions, and a few other goodies. Perhaps worth a look.
Regards,
Nick Whitmer
Well done.
Nice to see that Bass Regulators are soon to be on the menu!!
Heya Nick, I was browsing through your site yesterday. Nice job sir. I also like the o-ring on the base of the staple idea, mind if I steal it sometime? 
Hi Nick, nice to see you on the Board.
I really like that article on Pipes in 19th c. fiction, it’s great that you posted that! Have you passed that info on to Sean Donnelly?
regards
Bill Haneman
You beat me to it, Bill. I just finished reading that page.
Nice stuff, Nick! 
djm
Mr Moderator,
The thingy on the staple is not an o-ring - although that’s not a bad idea - but a couple turns of waxed thread. It serves both as a seal and as a marker for the position of the reed in its seat.
I’m thinking that I stole the idea from Tim Britton so what’s to keep you from, etc., etc.
Nick
Ahhhh, I see.
For me, I usually add a second binding that is adjustable/removeable and leave the winding at its best position once tuned.
This is a recent reed for Nate Banton’s C chanter.
Nick’s article on Pipes in 19th c. fiction,
provides an interesting companion and contrast with
IRISH PIPERS IN LITERATURE AND OTHER STORIES: IDIOSYNCRACIES OF IRISH MUSICIANS (Chapter XXXI from Captain Francis O’Neill’s “Irish Minstrels and Musicians”, Chicago, Regan Printing House, 1913). Of course O’Neill has a different perspective which may well be reflected in his choices of citation - (and of course the O’Neill chapter is not a modern scholarly article). If you liked Nick’s article the O’Neill chapter may be of interest too - as well as O’Neill’s other chapters on pipers and pipes.
for anyone else who might stumble upon this thread way up here in 2013 and be interested in information on Nick Whitmer’s pipes, etc., i’d like to offer that his website is now at http://whitmerpipes.com/.
Ian
Ian,
Thanks for the update. I had completely forgotten about this thread.
There is a zombie website at the old URL. I tried to get Verizon to remove it, but it was only an exercise in frustration. So, yes, http://www.whitmerpipes.com/ is the only “official” updated site.
Nick Whitmer