Project by GnarlyErik | posted 07-01-2018 09:02 PM | 1470 views | 3 times favorited | 6 comments | ![]() |
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My dear sister invited me to a flute camp’ s recital in Asheville, NC held on their final day . I enjoyed the whole trip and learned some things, one of which was that such a thing as a flute camp even existed. My sister showed me a fellow student’s flute stand. – another thing I never knew even existed. She asked if I might make her one, saying that she had one but it wasn’t ‘anything to write home about’. Translation: It was some cheap make do with no character that she’d bought somewhere.
My version is a little over six inches in diameter with a seven inch spindle. It is made from walnut with hard maple intarsia stylized heart inlays for decoration. Finish is marine varnish – I use that for just about everything except my teeth. It was fun to make and I got a little carried away as happens often with me. I turned a recess in the bottom into which I poured two pounds of molten lead as ballast so the stand doesn’t tip over in use. The spindle is removable, and the biggest challenge of the project was getting a brass nut inset into the base, and the matching threaded brass rod in the spindle so that everything lined up properly in the end.
A layer of felt is glued on the bottom, and I sewed up a simple little felt carrying bag for transport between gigs.
My payoff is that my sister loves it!
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woodbutcherbynight
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#1 posted 07-01-2018 09:31 PM
Sweet!! Good to put some ballast into it. I played clarinet and never bothered to make one, just used a store bought one. Might be because I was never very good??? LOL
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JCamp
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#2 posted 07-01-2018 09:53 PM
Looks like a great project. Glad your sister likes it. Next time u go you probably take a dozen of them with you to sell.
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hunter71
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#3 posted 07-02-2018 12:36 AM
Very nice
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#4 posted 07-02-2018 03:16 PM
That is really nice.
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#5 posted 07-02-2018 04:48 PM
Pretty, functional, and will be APPRECIATED! What more can we ever achieve?
All that makes it a great project.
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#6 posted 07-02-2018 04:59 PM
Great project
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