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...
Straight out of the ‘What’s The Rush Dept.’ here at Querencia Woodwinds, is an instrument I’ve been building since 2011, and I think it’s done…..Oklahoma red cedar, interchangeable barrels, tuned to F#m with the shorter barrel tuned to the neighborhood of Am. The...
So Peruvian huangana negra is the material used for this G#m instrument, as it remains one of my favorite tone woods, I continue to be the only builder on earth using this material, and it is not the most...
And the primary wood is pretty special. New Zealand Kauri is about as big around as a house and still grows there. This kauri was harvested from a tree that fell over, and into a peat bog, about 50,000 years...
So about 12 years ago, I cut some live edge amboyna Burl, and had a tiny scrap left over. I thought then….maybe I can make something with this someday. I stumbled across it once or twice a year since then. I just finished a flute of Oklahoma red cedar, and used...
Laotian flamewood is one of the hardest, most beautiful, and nastiest of the rosewood species on the planet. There are aspects of this build that look like they were done by a six year old, owing to the...