Ugly Boy Flutes

CLICK ON PICS TO ENLARGE, LINKS TO PLAY SAMPLES *****PRICE INCLUDES S/H VIA PRIORITY MAIL*****AND NOTE THE *NEW* EMAIL WHICH IS SWITCHING TO WEATHERFLUTE@GMAIL.COM BELOW ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE “UGLY BOYS”. PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT A PARTICULAR ‘KID’. ALL UGLY BOYS COME FINISHED IN POLY COATS (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED) ; ALL COME WITH A LIFETIME GUARANTEE THAT IF YOU EVER HURT THE FLUTE OR DEVELOP A PROBLEM WITH IT, I WILL REPAIR FOR FREE AND THE FLUTE WILL BE BETTER THAN NEW. ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU INCLUDE $20 FOR RETURN SHIPPING AND HANDLING.

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 Waynesville, North Carolina  weatherflute@yahoo.com

E5 branch in Rhododendron, bright litte player! This is a great flute for someone with small hands! $175

G#4 in figured Chechen, with Black Walnut sweeptail bird. $330

***Just a note about the Spalted Tamarind I procured a few months ago. There is a lot of spalting in most of my pieces, which is fungus doing it’s ‘thing’ in wood…you can have spalting in just about any wood under the right circumstances. My pieces of this wood will require a great amount of stabilizing with non-toxic, food- safe materials, and I mean on the order of taking a week or more for curing and drying days in my multi-stage process. I finish my fancy-grained woods with gloss wipe-on poly, which accentuates the patterns and seals this wood for a lifetime to come. More boards of this unusual wood await, which means more flutes coming out…in time. :-)

I have thought long and hard over this one. I have very few “keeper” flutes, and this one was going to be the first one i’ve decided to keep in over 10 years. But I have projects and goals I’m trying to reach, along with paying bills, and I’ve decided to let it go. Yes, it has a higher price tag, so if it doesn’t get adopted I’ll still have it. But if you want one crazy beautiful playing flute that’s a showpiece, this is it. This is an A4 in Corkscrew Willow that I collected by the creek at the Waynesville, NC dog park, which Hurricane Helene destroyed. $450

Bb4 in heavily spalted Tamarind with a Morado sweeptail bird. (The wood has been stabilized with non-toxic and food-safe materials for safety.)

$440

E4 in Black Limba with a Walnut bird, ready to fly. Bold player and lightweight. Limba is a great tone wood. $340

A4 in figured Chechen, with stylized Maple bird block. A bright bold player, this one. $350

CLIP HAS HISSY ARTIFACTS…WILL RE- RECORD AND POST LATER TODAY!

Bb3 in African Mahogany $380

(Just placeholder text for future flutes. I have an identical pair of F#5s with highly figured Walnut bodies and higly figured Maple birds. I’ve had some customers in the past buy a matching pair so they and a friend far away can be ‘connected’. The flutes and blocks are finished, I just need to final tune them, photograph them, and get sound samples made. Check back!