UGLY BOY FLUTES

These are flutes made with unusual or special woods and which may have additional artwork either in the blocks, inlays, construction, etc. They all have finish, come with a basic protective polarfleece bag, as well as a basic information sheet and fingering charts. (Click on “FLUTES” above)

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JULY 7, 2026

SHADOW HAWK FLUTES

This line of my flutes makes the quality and clarity benchmark “Ugly Boy Sound” affordable to even tight budgets. All flutes are made with Poplar, and have been sanded to 800 grit with one coat of Buther Block oil applied. They do not come with a bag or information sheet, but the sound mechanisms are made identical to higher-end Ugly Boy Flutes. (Click on “FLUTES” above)

Hard to believe that the original Ugly Boy came to life July 7th, 2002. It was ugly, alright…totally out of proportion to say the least…giant playing holes that salmon could spawn through…and a piece of silver duct tape covering where I whittled through into the SAC…oh, and the block tied on with green sisal as I didn’t have a leather wrap to use. But it played. LOUD and proud. And a bit airy, but I really didn’t know what I was doing. But. It. PLAYED. And it started a boiling pot in me that continues to this day. Ugly Boy has come a long way. I’ll be posting a video I’ll make this morning and talking more about the genesis of the musical seed that started it all. Stay tuned! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Like fishermen talk about, this is the flute “that got away” many moons ago. Figured you might like to see “Snake-o- pelli” (inlay design up top), an E4 drone in Black Walnut. This is a closed-end flute, where the exit holes are underneath the flute and the extended foot is all part of the flute, not added after the fact. Corn snakes come in a wide variety of colors and patterns, and I had this idea to carve intertwining heads, which was a real 3-D head-scratcher and slow going as I used a Dremel grinder to slowly establish the forms. I used my woodburning tool to carely burn in all the scales, which was quite time- consuming. The eyes are good ol’ BBs that I painted black, and the paints were basic acrylics. For the underneath side, after I was done, I took dirty fingers and ran them over the white parts to look more realistic. So somewhere is this flute that I would love to see again some day… # # # I’m doing my best to stay on top of the MOUNTAINOUS emails full of too much spam, but if you don’t hear from me in a timely manner please gently nudge me again. The amount of emails is stupid, and building constantly…I clear out up to 200 junk emails every day, and heaven forbid a skip a day or two. Eegads… Browse and enjoy! Email with any questions. Bob Child weatherflute@yahoo.com