I'm currently working on a second edition to
Bow Drill Trouble Shooting and in the new edition i will be dedicating a whole chapter to
bearing blocks and will be looking at the fairly new fashion of having a divot in the handle of a knife for use as a bearing block for your friction fire kit.
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First select a strait green piece of willow. |
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Cut a piece to the desired length, and try and choose a piece with as few knots and buds as possible. |
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I carve the mouthpiece next as it will be harder if you leave it till the end. |
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next a small notch on the top of the whistle. |
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And now score around the bark a few centimetres bellow the notch. |
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After some vigorous tapping of the bark with a stick or your knife handle you should be able to twist it, you should hear a slight 'pop' and the bark will separate from the wood underneath. |
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You will be able to slide the tube of bark off completely. |
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Now you can carve a sound chamber, enlarging the notch you made earlier, although you must not make the hole in the bark larger. You will also need to take a thin sliver of wood off the top surface of the wood in-front of the notch which is what you will blow through. |
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Now you can replace the bark sleeve and you have a completed whistle. |
Have a go yourself
Geoff
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