How to make a sanding tool for cleaning the inside of your flute
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2018
- Learn how to make a sanding dowel for cleaning out the inside of your material when making a Native American Flute. Be aware that sanding the inside can change the tone of the flute! Visit us on the web at www.bluebearflutes.com
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That’s a great idea Charlie. Im also going to try it on a limb flute and a flex cable to get around the curves. I learn something from every one of your videos. Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge of NA flute making.
cool idea
I love your videos because nothing is too small to interest you.
This answers my question exactly and more, thanks for the helpful video!
Bluebear, please do a video about making the closed-vessel instruments (sealed on the opposite end) like the bone, gourd, chunk of wood, or even something like the ocarina.
Thanks! Keep up the great videos!
Btw...
The vid about making the bone whistle you made a couple weeks ago was a great introduction, i just wish more details like measurements were included.
Thanks! This helped me to get rid of some fungus inside by flute.
Excellent! Don't forget tea tree and peppermint oil also help keep it from coming back as well as spiders and other unwelcomed visitors. 😁
Great video!!!👍
A million thanks!!
I'm going to try this now... It worked for fine fuzzies a while back, and also I previously got by compressing scotchbrite (whatever grit equivalent needed) into a shape that, when inserted into the bore, was pressing outward against the walls more or less 360 degrees evenly (and I'd just manually push it back and forth a bunch of times, slow but made it slick as glass). But for the first time I tried sealing the bore with epoxy and accidentally left chunks of cork from pushing excess out with a stupid old cork. So now I have to sand down epoxy fortified cork lumps. As always thanks
Thanks again for watching Jeff! Good luck with that!
G'day Charlie.
By accident, sanding a bamboo flute as you have just shown, I managed to give the flute a conical bore while trying to sand out a big lip at a segment and gave it an easy to achieve extra octave. I have been trying to do it again for some time, well, I have a lot of bamboo to try with. lol lol
Thanks Charlie
Tom
Yes, sanding the inside will often times change the sound. I don't think I mentioned that.
Beautiful flutes
Q: How do I keep the sandpaper from falling off?
A: Cut the dowel slot 1/2 inch deeper than needed for the sandpaper.
Insert a 1/2 inch shim into the dowel END and glue it in place.
You now have a closed slot into which you push the sandpaper from the side.
The sandpaper is now 'captive' and cannot slide out.
THanks For THinking!
Or, just stay a half inch away from the very end and use a 1/16' drill bit and drill the slot out. You're welcome
Love the Quena flute you made for me. I use a very similar method for sanding my Cottonwood bark flutes. I learned the hard way not to turn on the drill until the sanding tip is controlled by the flute or the hand. LOL Thanks Charlie, Scott
Neat idea. Thank you.
I made this sanding rod tool today to work on a new flute blank. Awesome, absolutely awesome. It produced a very smooth bore. Easy to make, very good results. Thank you.
Thanks Charlie :)!! Thank you for accepting my request. This video is super helpful :)
You're welcome!
BlueBearFlutes Charlie is that large piece of bamboo for a bass flute? Will you be showing the final product :D?
I use a piece of ready rod or all thread. Works great and lasts for ever
That's a great idea!
It IS a great idea. I wonder how a shotgun bore brush would work. It’s a lot lighter and perhaps the wire would ‘scrub’ out the fibers better, perhaps just fine finishing with the sand paper. When bamboo returns to the garden center, I’ll try it.
Charlie, a tip for you.. If you will use duct tape and tape on side of the sandpaper to the dowel, then roll it over the taped section, it will not come off..
The only thing is, we use the same towel and 20 different sheets of sandpaper at different times throughout the day. So I like to leave mine loose in order to be able to take it out. What do you think?
I do the same thing to apply my finish to the inside, but I don't use the drill. I find that a smaller diameter threaded rod with a couple of nuts and washers will hold the cloth/sandpaper and prevent it from coming off.
How do you drill the partitions out ? I've tried to knock them out with a piece of rebar but the wood bust or splits.
Good stuff to learn. I wonder if I put a rag of oil on that dowel would it be easier to oil the inside? or maybe a bore snake like for a shotgun. Ok Charlie, when are you going to open a school of flutes, so we can go and learn hands on, and maybe even get a certification from the one and only Blue Bear. I can see it now blue Bear's School of flutes.
I bought a flute (not from you) a few years ago when I play with all the notes closed it sounds way off.btw I know flutes somewhat I have a few.anyway is there a way to fix this I also have a electronic tuner
Hi Say can I ask this. In using bamboo I punched the inside nodes through to make my hole. What I have noticed is there is still quite a bit of node inside the flute. Does the inside node need to be fully cleaned out? And if so, will using this technique of sanding bore the rest of the node out?
The answer to your last question is yes. With regards to "does it need to be cleaned out completely?" Actually no. It will play without cleaning the nodes out completely however it will play better if they are cleaned out better. It will mostly affect how the individual notes are in tune and a little bit of how the flute might jump octave. Great questions, and thanks for watching!
HELP PLEASE . I do not know where I am going wrong . I have made several flutes and I run into the same problem every time . Everything works just fine until I make the finger holes . First hole works fine but no sound change from other holes .
Can someone help me, i am very much getting into flute making and have even progressed from using pvc pipe to bamboo now that i have found a local source for it, but i am finding not luck from any tutorials on when or not the position of each hole along the flute and the spacing is actually important or not? I know that hole diameter dictates the pitch of the note, but i have also been lead to believe that how far up the pipe the hole is also plays a part in that, and yet with every tutorial i watch they seem to keep leaving out how to work out where along the pipe one should put the holes which leaves me thinking you just put them where ever is comfortable. Can someone please clear this up for me? thanks.
FYI i am referring to the finger holes.
Hole placement:
OPTION A: Study a lot of physics and use the equations.
OPTION B: Buy his book with tables of measurements - ($40 - The Art Of Native American Flute Making)
OPTION C: Watch his video where he is flipping thru the book and FREEZE the image
when you see a hole chart. Print that image or write down a bunch of numbers from the image.
THanks for THinking!