Finished a couple of whistles this weekend. About my third attempt. This time I actually got out a fairly playable product. Pure copper save for a polyclay fipple block I cooked here at home. Key of Eb, cause I didn’t have an Eb. Also have a C body I painted and isn’t dry yet.
Anyway.
http://vomitbunny.tripod.com/
Pictures at the bottom. Still rough and needing polishing. Sorry about the crappy quality.
Mp3 under the name “home made copper whistle”
Yes I know it aint much, but I managed to get it out and still have enough fingers to play it with. I’ve played worse.
There’s probably something wrong with my ears, 'cause it sounds pretty darned good to me.
Looks pretty nice. Btw, if you only write with green ink pens, why not make all your posts in green font?
yes VB
very Cupidic.
(applause)
Hmm …
Its funny that -
the copper, Venus and rabbit connection
that is.
Wow! I’m blushing! 
An’ thatsa good idea. I should have been typing in green too.
The pictures of your whistle show an interesting fipple design. Please describe how you constructed the fipple and whether you were working from plans or not.
JB
No plans. I looked at the whistle building book from jubilee, looked at my sysn whistle, looked at some pictures, and scratched my head a lot.
Yeah, my ears are screwed up too. 
Nice job.
Wow! I’m blushing so much now that my lowwer extremeties don’t have enough blood flow!
I’ll post pics and sounds of the one I made last night asap. It’s a pvcd/copper construct.
VB: What did you do to the clip scartaglen.mp3?
It has an unusual “swirly” sound on my computer.
Is that an electronic effect, or some way you’re playing (what I’m assuming is a Jubilee practice Low D), or am I just hearing things?
I don’t hear any swirly sound on my end. But I do hear him trying to inhale the whistle during breaths.
Takes a bit of air, doesn’t it!!! 
I think that’s a combination of using a really crappy mic and then trying to clean it up with software.
I figured out some of those problems.
I need to put some more up. I have a few more low d’s now. Also a pvc which I made last night. Hopefully I can turn out another one tonight. I’ve had a bit of practice now, and I may return to trying to work with the cane I cut back last year. Gee, I guess I could call a cane whistle I made a …lets see…how bout a vomboo whistle?
Um…you know…vomit/bamboo…vomboo.
Dangit. Can’t get it to play on my winamp. I’d really like to hear it, though, as it looks beautiful.
Forrest
vomitbunny (<–Man, I can’t believe I am typing that), that whistle looks and sounds terrific. Kinf of like a copper Abell. Bravo!
Wow! Yall guys are giving me the big head. I was trying to decide if I needed to take my tools with me on vacation or not. It seems I will now!
BTW, I feel downright eastery.
Do you now?
Don’t have any really hot showers then.
We don’t want to see you running on your vacation.
Very nice sounding.
Are you sweating the joints on the different secions or is it just a pressure fit. Glue maybe?
Good Job.
Glue. I intended to solder, but the fipple is polyclay. (yes, clogging is bad) I may move up to delrin. This weekend will be wood though. In fact I may stick with wood. I’m entertaining the thought of a wood fipple and a wood blade together. Such a thing is done with at least one make of recorder, and said to have good results.
BTW, I’ve learned at least as much in my few attepts as I have in my entire time searching through post.
I have been woking on my own design for a whistle so it is always cool to see what others come up with.
If the poly clay is what I think it is it doesn’t have a really smooth (mirror polished) surface after it is baked. (does this sound right?) I wonder if by treating it with nail polish or some other type of smooth drying microgap filler like super glue or even rubbed parafin would fix your cloging problem. I would probably try that even on a wood fipple that you could sand down to 1000 grit paper with.
Best of luck!
Scott
It’s fairly smooth. Not bad. But it’s like hard rubber. To shape it, I stuff it in the size pipe I’m going to use, bake it, and remove it. Guarenteed fit. I need to make another along the same design but with thicker copper for the head. Or thicker something. Hard to make a cut-away design with pvc. Even thin pvc is a little thick for that. You come up with a whistle that take an awful lot of breath, at least for a sop. I’m taking some sched 20 3/4 with me on vacation. I believe I can make a decent low whistle using it and the cut away method.
My step father has a fairly well equiped shop. I may get around to a clarke type clone that I’ve been thinking about. We did a prototype at the shop with mixed results. We didn’t have the proper metal, but we had plenty of old duct work metal. Taste terrible. Feels terrible. But you can make a whistle out of it. I’ll get some nice old fashioned tin when I get there.
It’s unfortunate that most of the skills I aquired over the years doesn’t help me much. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a metal smith or wood worker. The possibilities would be endless. I’ve got friends that can help me though. The biggest problem is the tools they are suggesting for me. YOu can buy a lot of whisltes for what you’d pay for a milling machine.
BTW, what kind of bone are you playing? I can’t tell by the pic. I’m partial to Kings and Holtons myself.