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)

News and Updates

JUNE 19,2026

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)

CHANGES. BIG CHANGES. COMING VERY SOON. For me personally, for the website, for the world of Ugly Boy Flutes, and beyond, changes are afoot. A big leap of faith (not the first time). Yes, that was a sentence fragment, but I call ‘poetic license’, having been a 10th grade Grammar and Composition teacher. :-) I have much to take care of in a short period of time, which includes a lot of photography and making sound samples (and soon VIDEOS!) as I FINALLY found my Zoom recorder, having dropped down behind my chest freezer in my shop. Oopsie! I have a good handful of flutes that no one has seen or knows about, so if you read this and are looking for a particular key, email me a the addy below. Tomorrow, I’ll be traveling to Townsend, TN for their flute circle at the Heritage Visitor Center. Always a great time with great people! And the other best part is the leisurely drive through the center of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 2 hours in nature, early enough in the day that traffic is light….until my return trip LOL! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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