easy peasy whistle!

[fish]

after watching these today we went to the woods with a kelly kettle jam sarnies and made a few,this really is a great little project,takes about 10 mins.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iORQuIMM_sg

lets see your efforts.

[Ben Casey]

Just clicked on the link is says it is malformed ?

[Mang]

Same here. was it Sycamore, Elder?

[Ashley Cawley]

I've edited fish's post to contain the video I *think* he might have been talking about, I can't tell for sure as the link was broken.

[fish]

yep thats the vid,sorry didnt realise it didnt work first off,the whisle is sycamore,works well too.

[Ben Casey]

I'm going to try that it looks cool :)

[jus_young]

Excellent! I will use this with my scouts at camp, after having a go myself of course. Wouldn't want to make a fool of myself now would I?

[Roadkillphil]

Thanks Fish for sharing that link, gonna have a go at that :D

[fish]

hopefully my new camera battery will turn up today so i can film one!

[Mang]

Try an Elderflower one too...a bit easier IMHO!

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/Mang1967/escouts/whistle_1.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/Mang1967/escouts/whistle_2.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/Mang1967/escouts/whistle_3.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/Mang1967/escouts/whistle_4.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e121/Mang1967/escouts/whistle_5.jpg

*Grab yourself a length of Elderflower (this one was snapped off by some mega citizen). It needs to be about a finger thickness. This stuff was just under and a little thin.
*Cut to whistle sized lengths and carefully peel the bark off with a knife at 90 degrees and either do a flat or 45 degrees mouthpiece (I like the former as it looks like a policeman's whistle). Also,cut the notch on the top, about a third of the way along and a third down-A 90 degree and 45 degree cut).
*Use a small stick to push the foam like middle out. You are taking the pith at this stage=D
*when fully cleaned out find a stick about the same size and cut a small piece to block the end. use a little PVA glue if needed.
*Same sized wood for the blowing end but shave about 1-2mm off the top and leave it slightly longer so you can pull it out if you need to reshave the mouthpiece.
*Once you have a sound cut the mouthpiece to shape. they also sound a bit like a policeman's whistle.

[Edwin]

I remember someone making me a whistle when I was little out of elder bark, they tapped all round a short cut off branch to get the bark off in one piece but I cannot remember how the mouthpiece was formed. Possibly one end was pinched and a hole cut in the tube as for an ordinary whistle.

[Edwin]

This vid on making a birch bark whistle is the way my elder one was made I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnEMZOOk5BQ

[Roadkillphil]

Made a coupla whistles today with my new knife. Inspired by this thread :D

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5723928040_7d3c2d03a5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7904270@N07/5723928040/)
Sycamore whistles (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7904270@N07/5723928040/) by roadkillphil (http://www.flickr.com/people/7904270@N07/), on Flickr

Worked a treat, one for Corey, one for Erin :D

[fish]

problem is now i end up making them all the time for the kids.