Okay folks, here is the place to put pictures of flute woods if you have them.

I suggest that the posts be strictly wood pictures (including pics of flutes from different woods, of course) and no discussion. To be useful as a "gallery" of woods, it helps if a visitor does not have to wade through ten pages of posts where the pictures are mixed with "chat". We've got some threads for talking about the woods already, so this is a "media only" gallery. Descriptions may accompany the wood pics, of course.

Jarrah Burl (Eucalyptus) inlaid with jet black crushed stone, with regular Jarrah and Ebony accent woods



Jim Davis

Top two: Eastern Red Cedar. Top flute has a walnut block, second flute with spalted maple block (Douglas Thunderhorse flutes)
Third: Yellowheart, with Purpleheart Accents and block (Craig Noss, Fire Flutes)
Bottom: Black Walnut, block is same wood (Matt, Blue Deer Spirit flutes)

Black and White Ebony -C- by Earth Flutes/Chuck Theroux. This unique little pup is only 14 & 1/4" long, has a circle of inlayed malachite on the block, and was acquired at the Silverhawk Gathering/Dade City, FL Oct 2008!

Tiger Wood and Ebony (E) . . . by Dennis Lombard, of Mountainflutes

Macassar Ebony & Gabon Ebony (G#) by Dennis Lombard/Mountainflutes

Two recently completed G's in, do I have to even say it, CURLY REDWOOD. With stripes to make a Bengal Jealous .

F# in Redheart, AKA Chakte-kok. The block is Dark Claro Walnut and the inlays are three Lapis Lazuli Cabochons.

"F#" Gabon Ebony with Amboyna Burl, crafted by Dennis Lombard, of Mountainflutes.

The upper section of the attached combo photo shows the original "flute package" with it's two different blocks/totems! The terrific ebony feather block was designed for "dress up" and the other very nifty two tone back up block was created for safer travel usage and . . . Just In Case! However, . . . Since the carved ebony feather block was truly the perfect "correct" size, it was recruited to enhance my already sassy and slick Purple Heart "F" (By Mountainflutes) into a total Flute Hottie! Yes, I was a "naughty flutie" and I am totally guilty of swapping out another extremely handsome delicately carved feather block to use on this Ebony flute! Since ya'll are not supposed to reply to this post, and therefore cannot fuss at me here, . . . I will now raise my right hand and promise that I will never again swap any of my flute blocks! ... ... Wado for this wonderful wood Brother Dennis!!!

Finally, here are the pictures of the first three flutes I've done. I made the cherry from a stellar pre-bore kit.
The pear is all mine, cut the wood from a large felled branch after a storm took out the tree. The red cedar
is my wife wolf's it is a pretuned kit from stellar, I did the shape to her specifications and carved the wolf block
to look as if you were seeing the wolf looking at the moon from a distance. This also was the way she wanted it carved.
There are plans to add gold pearl eyes to the carving in the near future.

Ebony on Ebony - High G with Malachite - by Larry Evans of Mockingbird Flutes!
Shelly Stenzil, of Feather Ridge Flutes gifted me the green leather ties to match this absolutely beautiful stone!

Walnut High F# by Ray Wood of Island Flutes

Left photo: Left2right---> Alder drone with Walnut center spline; A matched set of Maples found in an old log rotting on the ground on our 5 acres; The little flute is a high F Rosewood.

Right Photo: Left2right--->Some Maple bought from a pair of unscrupulous guys driving a black Lincoln, they sell the stuff in big slabs..no idea where they get it from but it's very reasonable; A pair of driftwood styled Western Red Cedars; An Applique' Walnut with Tiger maple overlay.

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Alaskan Yellow Cedar with Redwood, F# by Dennis Lombard, of Mountainflutes
Photos do not do this wood true justice, since the color is tad bit more like a deep rich butter!

OK, here's some of the different Maples used in my Searching Bear set

Old Spalted Maple:
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Old Spalted Ambrosia Maple:
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Slightly Spalted Ambrosia Maple:
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Young Ambrosia Maple:
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Hard Curly Maple:
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Curly Ambrosia Maple:
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Rio Grande Cottonwood

Red Oak, Rocky Mountain Juniper Block

You can view different wood images here..

http://www.woodworking.org/WC/woodsampler.html

Burl images
http://www.gilmerwood.com/Figure_burl.htm

Rosewoods
http://www.gilmerwood.com/rosewoods.htm

Other woods
http://www.gilmerwood.com/Gilmerwood%20Woo...le%20Images.htm

I just bought some Red Heart I like working with It makes a nice looking flute.

Beetle Maple Wood Drone

Spanish Cedar

Ash with grain lifted and dyed.

These are beautiful. You should email us the pictures so we can post them as examples on our web site: support@stellarflutes.com
No one has sent us pictures of the animal totems yet. the wolf turned out great.

I thought I would get this going again
here are some differant woods I use .....
Have a great day
Randy Taylor

http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/573913727rirEXs


Curly Redwood
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Bloodwood
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Blackwalnut
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Hey Randy,those flutes are INCREDIBLE looking!!!!!! If they sound as good as they look....they have to be outstanding!!!!!

High "D" apricot drone, made by Bill Hughes
Thanks Bill

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here is a link to some pics i took of some of the wood i have that i use for flutes.

Randy Taylor

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/575564075LOoyoV

Some almost finished flutes and a working flute rack.

Marsha, here is the photo of my working flute rack, it only holds 28 flutes, apparently I can't count when I run out of fingers and toes

The Yellowish flute is the "root flute" made from a section of mullberry tree root, inlayed with purple sand and copper before making the finger holes. The other two are aromatic cedar, note the birds are tuning birds, carved ones will be fitted when the flutes are final tuned.

Two flutes made from the piece of birdseye maple shown on the left (which was purchased from gilmerwoods.com). The top/lighter is a "G" (made from two "slices" from the left hand side of the board) and the bottom/darker is an "A" (made from two slices from the right). The size of the original board was 13/16 x 6 7/8 x 21 7/8. The bore size of both is 7/8" with a wall size of 3/16". The block on the "G" is from Camphor Burl and the block on the "A" is from Walnut.

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-tom-

Here are the 3 lightly spalted maple flutes finished that Gordon posted on the first page.

Spalted Sycamore . . . Low C by Dennis Lombard/Mountainflutes

My latest flute. Made from Goncalo Alves, this is an A with a Padouk block.

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It was made from the board shown below. The portion used was the right half of the board, and the center half of that portion. This wood is very hard, on the same scale as ebony (at least, from my experience). When oiled, it darkened up much more than I expected.

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Marblewood flute made by Russ Wolf. The block is Purpleheart.

WOW!!!! I LOVE that Marblewood!!!!!! I never saw or heard of that wood before!

Oh, I almost forgot...
Tulip Wood:

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This is an "F" flute made from Figured Quina wood. The block is from Texas Ebony. The maker of this flute is Russ Wolf.

One of my true favorite woods. "Red Flame Box Elder:

Spectacualr Redwood Burl.

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Speaking of Red Flamed Box Elder~this wood was a gift from Ed (Greybeard)

That's the natural color!?! Wow!

I have to agree that the Red Flame Box Elder is super special. I will have to get my hands on some of that!

Two Black Limba Flutes -- The one with the ambrosia is a Stellar flute. The one with walnut plugs is an Ugly Boy (by Bob Child). Both flutes shown have bloodwood blocks.

-- Janice

Russ Wolf flutes in Texas Ebony

Figured walnut with pipestone inlay and bloodwood block. Ugly Boy Verdi E by Bob Child.

Figured myrtle (and claro walnut block)

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This is figured camphor - flute made by Dan Arrington of FL - NL-SS flutes:

Hobbyist Flute maker - some photos of my flutes:
Drone - Gm: Cherry with maple fetish
F#m: Walnut with maple fetish
Em: Maple & walnut with walnut fetish
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Those are some nice looking hobby flutes. The oak leaf is pretty cool, I've never seen a totem like that before.

Sound sample?

Eric

THESE BABIES ARE NICE, how did you get the leaf to bend, or is there wasted wood (cut out from solid block)