I just got a new Water Weasel and had heard that the fipple plug was made of wood. When I got mine, the plug is brown but doesn’t quite look like wood. Does anyone know what this material is? By the way, I was impressed with the sound of the Weasel as well as my new Dixon right out of the box! Fantastic tone and, at least to me, easier to play. It appears that a better instrument (more expensive) does make me sound better!
Some kind of plastic. It’s been a few years since WW whistles has wooden fipples.
‘Some kind of plastic’ is real scientific, isn’t it? 
Stuart
Red stuff.
Doc
Or pink stuff.
But I like the red stuff better.
I never heard of a WW using wood…
Here’s what Glenn had to say recently when I e-mailed him with the same question:
ciba-geigy makes a closed-cell polyfoam for the automotive modeling trade—stuff’s machinable, hard enough, lasts forever, no swell no shrink. i pick the off-cuts out of the scrap bin at GM and turn stix out of it. also i sometimes use a poly tooling wax which is red in color, but that’s mostly on pvc instruments.
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[ This Message was edited by: raindog1970 on 2003-01-10 09:09 ]