Thread: Whittled Dog Whistle

That could be carved to any breed-fancier's dream!
Was that on the bench or did you hold it in hand for carving?
I confess I have to have mine on a lanyard (BRIGHT RED) or it would have been lost long ago.
What's your opinion of cherry for carving?

Beautiful work Mike. I've made dozens of whistles over the years but I've never thought to carve one so ornately. Mine are just 'down and dirty' simple things that I sell for a couple of bucks. Might have to try something more elaborate after seeing yours. Thanks for posting.

WOW Mike you are displaying really great talent with that whistle.
When the wife and I come across "old time" architecture displaying "arty" flourishing extra bits purely for decoration, she describes it as coming from an era when people "bothered". With the high cost of everything people cant do "bothered", on a large scale, because of the cost.
Great work Mike.

Really nice.

I admire, and am somewhat jealous, of your handiwork!

Originally Posted by Robson Valley

That could be carved to any breed-fancier's dream!
Was that on the bench or did you hold it in hand for carving?
I confess I have to have mine on a lanyard (BRIGHT RED) or it would have been lost long ago.
What's your opinion of cherry for carving?

Hi RV, aside of the electric drill , it was carved entirely in my hand with a pocket knife.

I've carved a lot of UK cherry , it is one of my favourite woods but it is very variable in quality.
I have carved good tight faces in it, so small you could get 2 of them on your little fingernail, I've had other pieces where I would have struggled to carve a face the size of the end of my thumb , the whistle blank lay somewhere in between the two extremes.
In Japan they carve some extremely fine netsuke with their cherry but the couple of times I have tried North American Cherry I have found it to be very inferior to European grown wood both in it's capacity to take detail & the colour & figure.

Emphatically YES! to do need a lanyard with a whistle ,here is a pic of an antique whistle which has an elegant solution to the problem of attachment.

Cheers Mike

Excellent work, Mike!

Claude

Very nice Mike, very unique. I wish I had the ability to carve miniatures, I might not run out of wood so quick

Really nice

Whistle looks really good.
As a matter of interest, how do you tune it?

Originally Posted by sea dragon

Whistle looks really good.
As a matter of interest, how do you tune it?

Thanks, well the frequency of the tone (musical note) it makes is determined by how long the tube is, so I drill a tiny bit out by rotating the drill in my hand & blow it.
Obviously now I have made one I have a yardstick to make another without going through that again.