You know its not all about bowls

[Brad Vaughn]

Before I got into bowl turning I spent allot of hours at the lathe turning Flutes
I have done a couple of hundred of them and now only do about 6 a year for the fun of it.
A photo of 3 I did last year.
Anyone else make these?
Brad

[Paul Atkins]

Welcome Brad. It sure is not all about bowls - coming from a spindle turner. I have not made flutes but would like to try. Here's an 'opportunity' to make a tutorial and show off your stuff.

[Don Orr]

I agree with Paul about you putting a tutorial together. That would be fun to try making a flute. Nice work there Brad !

[steven carter]

Brad,

I couldn't agree with you more. Even though I have made and will continue to make a lot of bowls, I really enjoy spindle turning pens and bottle stoppers, candle holders, vaces etc. I also make boxes, and I am looking forward to starting hollow forms. I also would like to see a tutorial on flutes. I recently did a tutorial on ornament globes, and while it is a lot of work, I really enjoyed it and the comments it brought.

In my opinion, one of the best things about a lathe is the fact that so many different things can be made with them. If a person wants to specialize and make only one or a few kinds of items and they enjoy doing it, I say thats just as good as a person who makes everything under the sun.

Steve

[Scott Lux]

Tutorial! Tutorial! Tutorial!

I think the public has spoken. I would love to make a few of these. I wanted to make a recorder, but they are mush more difficult (I assume) due to the varying bore.

[GLENN THOMAS]

I have also wanted to try something like this but I didnt even know where to start. I dont even know anything about music. If your not able to do a tutorial can you recommend a book, video, or a web site.

Thanks GT

[Brad Vaughn]

Well a Tutorial would be a little to much for me to do at this time BUT I will list some helpful links. The turning of the wood is the easy part its getting the sound that takes most of the work.

So I would suggest two groups on yahoo and one simple book.
http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/nativeflutewoodworking/
and http:// launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/basic_naf_making/
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The first group was the one that helped me the most in learning how to craft these flutes. Look in the file section lots of good info.

http://www.Fluteblanks.com/
Makes one piece fluteblanks at reasonable prices if you don’t want to do a two piece bore and want to just jump in. This is a very good site for blanks I have bought allot over the years from them.

A good starter book at least I think so now it uses hand tools and not a lathe but you can see when its time to use a lathe or not.

The Worlds Easiest to use and most complete manual on making the Native American Style Flute (NAF)
Written by Kieta
Email to: eenncar@aol.com
http://www.cherrycows.com/

Have a look at his site some good info on it to.
And doing a Gogle on how to make a NAF will give you allot of hits.

And last but not least if you would like to hear my flutes you can do so at this link
http://www.flutetears.com/mp3/Night_Visitors.mp3

Hope that helps
Thanks for the comments.
Brad

[GLENN THOMAS]

Thanks for taking the time to post all the info.

GT

[Scott Lux]

I had seen this one a while back. But I haven't been brave enough to try it.

http://www.dbeweb.com/kayak/pages/flute.html

[Skip Spaulding]

Nice work, great sound, good info, thank you. Probably would also make a great loon call!

[Wayne Hendrix]

Bowls, I thought it was all about pens. Don't tell me that soon I am going to want something bigger than the new Delta midi sitting in a box in my garage. :)

[Bernie Weishapl]

Those are some great looking flutes. Thanks for the info.

[David E Keller]

Very cool... It seems that there's no limit to what one can make on a lathe.