Bruce, I worked with 11 and 12 year old students in making PVC flutes. I made each TSH myself. They drilled and decorated. Decoration is the fun part for them....
Drill a starter hole. Remove most of the waste with a Dremel tool using a straight cutting bit. Clean up the hole starting with needle rasps and graduating to...
... the ... Ty, I attended a flute making class by Raymond Redfeather at Musical Echoes. He burns all his flutes. He showed us a couple of his burning irons....
... Woodcrafters (www.woodcraft.com) has a great, agressive 1/4" flat needlerasp... also a 6 pc set. ... Grizzly tools (www.grizzly.com) has 2 great sets of...
Russ - Excellant reply! You suggested a Dremel 'straight cutting bit'. Any chance you can get more specific, ie. Dremel bit number or even a size would help....
Hi Ty, I have uploaded a photo of a couple of burning tools I use in my flute construction. I have a total of 22 burning tools I use. I never use a drill on my...
It produces the same effect if you use a dremel tool with a cone shape stone bit. It burns the hole as it drills it and you can even shape them for different...
... or ... i think the straight bits only come in two or three sizes. theyre mainly intended for drywall and plywood cutouts and trimming lamminate or veneer. ...
no thoughts on any of this?? some kinda taboo subject perhaps that i was unaware of? thanks. i did very well at the art exhibit and had a blast teaching people...
lol. exactly what i use, in different diameters and slopes. also for tsh and exit i like using (for the bulk) a rotozip spiral saw bit. try it sometime. :)...
Brian, You must have missed reading the advice in the software and all the books that suggests that you first tune the blank and then drill and tune successive...
... the ... Ty, You can. I use the rectangular end to start my final hole. It takes it up to about 1/4. The finaly tool should be as described here. I use...
... Hello, It is my understanding that a chimney is in the bird. It channels air from the TSH. I am told that it reduces or eliminates unwanted noise at...
Hau Matthew Only advise I have is dont set your price low expecting buyers to raise em for you. I caculates mines at $10 hour for labor then add cost of...
... Dremel calls it a 'high-speed cutter' #194, 1/8" Dia. Also, I use Dremels' tapered grinding stones to enlarge and tune playing holes #'s 953 (1/4 dia.) and...
ohhh.i have that one too.i still prefer the longer ones(tiger bits or something its called) the cutting part is longer..they both look spiral enough to me,,but...
i think its interesting ,maybe serendipitous is the word..how alot of us arrive to using the same techniques/tools independantly of advice from others and this...
... and ... Hi Don - thanks for the feedback. You are right that I did'nt follow the steps - I relied on a friend with the software. I should slow down and...
... I believe that there is a lot of ... You are right, and there will probably be arguments about the following. Chimneys have several effects, the first...
... Price ... ~ 5 ... It ... wondering ... pretty ... Brian, I agree that you should not cut some off. My experience is that this is disaster. Also, if you...
Russ wrote: BTW ordinary oven cleaner is a great fast way to clean clogged files, but be careful it is very caustic. Russ Thanks for this info Russ, I think it...
There may be disagreement with the following or someone have a better way of working. But it's very easy to ruin a flute at the point of starting the TSH...
Re. the subject- an old machinists trick to helping keep files from clogging when working with metal was to fill the file with common white blackboard chalk......
... toothbrush ... There are file cleaner wire brushes that do an excelent job of cleaning files in about 30 seconds of wood, metal or just about anything else...
I have placed a photo in "Eric's Folder" of one example of an approach to fixing misplaced fingerholes that several of us have used to good effect. First fill...
Another machinist trick (from a machinist) is to use a small piece of coppoer tubing, flattened on one end, to run 'with the grooves' to clean out the file....
Greetings, As a retired engineer I have picked up some usefull tips on file care. The easiest and quickest way to clean a file, is to obtain a piece of...
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