The General Process

This is not a how to make a flute plan and I won't be responsible if you injure yourself while making a flute!!

Always be sure to read the safety rules for any power tool!

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After cutting and marking the blanks I rout out the slow air chamber and the sound chamber using a jig I made.

This jig holds the wood tight and centered for the router.

These are some of the tools I use to finish and tune the flutes. (Second picture from R-L) Here are two sets of blanks, an already glued blank, one that has been rough hand planed to shape and my little cauldron with incense /ceder burning.

Here I have a blank that is being glued and clamped, along with a wet rag on a split dowel to clean out the glue from the sound chamber. Not an advertisement but I do use Tightbond III because it is water proof and it has worked very well on the woods that I have been using. (Poplar and ceder)

I use a small hand plane to shape the flute.

Does anyone need ceder shavings? ;-)