….So one of the questions folks are day in and day out, constantly never asking, is “This is your profession,…why do you insist on building one instrument at a time, from start to finish?” Another is “Do you lease or own the rolling stock, like...
So,....the number of flutes I'm able to post this month, is... None. My home, and more importantly the driveway in front of the Corporate HQ of Querencia Woodwinds, is ever so slowly, sliding down the hill toward the ocean. Ms. Denise and I have...
So I posted my “Covid Collection” to my shiny new website, and temporarily blew it up…..26 flutes, 260+ photos, 26 sound files, and detailed text for each instrument. The builders had it back up in 24 hours, and said it was not my fault. During a break from the cold,...
Well, ….I don’t have any new flutes completed…or even started. I’ve been unable to rip and route lumber due to the weather, and my rather sketchy work ethic. However, I used the time to post the majority of my “Covid Collection” to my website having added text,...
It’s been a month or so since my last post here, and I mentioned I had two potential flute blanks left, already ripped and routed, of some really horrible wood. Since the only volunteer I had...
So I mentioned back in January I had no more blanks for building flutes, so I was taking a vacation to start noodling with my steel guitars. Ms. Denise won’t let me play them in the house because I’m horrible at it, and playing them in my unheated flute shop, at 52° F...
So, finished two days ago, this flute is my final build for 2021. I’m taking a couple of months off, as I have 23 flutes that need sound files, and posting to my website. I also need to refresh my memory and that of any of my neighbors within earshot, as to why I...
With a side order of Good riddance. So much crisis and divisive turmoil is really trashing what’s left of my Golden Years…..but I digress. This Virginia walnut Gm flute is my last instrument for the year,...
This instrument is built primarily from 50,000 year old New Zealand Kauri. The additional woods include Bethlehem Olive, Cedar of Lebanon, and a diamond cut of SE Asian amboyna burl set into the sound chamber. Inlaid...
During the build of my recently posted 3 piece instrument, back in 2011, I had some initial success that prompted initiating a second build a few months later. I was wrong. Five years later, I smashed the Gm...