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    Make Your Own Wooden Flute
    Make Your Own Wooden Flute
    Make Your Own Wooden Flute
    Ebook67 pages21 minutes

    Make Your Own Wooden Flute

    By Steve Schmeck

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    “Make Your Own Wooden Flute” is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating a simple wooden flute you can play and enjoy. You can build your own wooden flute by following the well illustrated steps presented in this compact book.
    The book covers:
    – Tools
    – The process
    – Stock selection
    – Boring and roughing the blank
    – Turning the tube
    – Marking and drilling the finger holes
    – Tuning and finishing the flute
    – Playing your first tune
    – Fingering chart
    – Tunes to get you started
    Each step is illustrated and the text is geared toward folks who have no prior experience making musical instruments. Additional information on how you might make multiple flutes is also provided. In the examples described in this guide the author turns a piece of firewood into a nice looking and sounding wooden flute. You can do it too!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManyTracks
    Release dateFeb 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310337055
    Make Your Own Wooden Flute
    Author

    Steve Schmeck

    Steve Schmeck has been involved in woodworking since he was young and it has been a large part of his life ever since. He, with his wife, Sue Robishaw, designed and built their own off-grid house and homestead where they have lived for forty years. It is full of Steve’s passion for hand-made and his life as a fiddler, wood carver, boat builder, artist and tinkerer. He is a nationally recognized bowl and spoon carver with both bowls and spoons in many private collections.

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      Make Your Own Wooden Flute - Steve Schmeck

      Make Your Own

      Wooden Flute

      Steve Schmeck

      ManyTracks

      Make Your Own Wooden Flute

      by Steve Schmeck

      Copyright 2015 Stephen K. Schmeck

      Published by ManyTracks at Smashwords

      Thank you for downloading this eBook. The content of this book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoy this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

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      Table of Contents

      – Introduction

      1 – Tools

      2 – The Process – Summary

      3 – Stock Selection

      4 – Boring the Blank

      ..4a – Boring Machine

      5 – Finding the Center

      6 – Roughing the Blank

      6a – Tube Roughing Jig

      7 – Marking the Location of the Lip Plate (optional)

      8 – Turning the Tube

      9 – Carving the Lip Plate

      10 – Marking & Boring the Mouth & Finger Holes

      11 – Tuning the Flute

      12 – Finishing

      13 – Making a Case

      14 – Playing Your First Tune

      15 – Fingering Chart

      16 – Tunes

      – About the Author

      – Books Published by ManyTracks

      – Connect with Steve

      Introduction

      In all my years working with wood I've found that some of the most satisfying projects have been the making of musical instruments. I have built everything from simple board zithers to lap and hammered dulcimers to wooden flutes. Back in our art fair days the flutes were one of the most popular things we sold. Some of the flutes were pretty basic; a hardwood tube with holes drilled in strategic locations. On some I carved a raised lip plate and others I carved the closed end; bird, cat, human face, among other designs.

      I really did enjoy both making the flutes and (there seems to be a pattern here) making the tools and jigs to make them more efficiently and of better quality. The two tools I made that were most helpful were a hand-powered boring machine and my trusty treadle lathe. I have already written about the lathe in Make Your Own Treadle Lathe which is available as an eBook at most on-line book retailers and as a

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