Josh inspired me a couple years ago with all of the flutes he had been making but it wasn't until now that I finally dug in and found out how to make one. I bought a few cedar balusters from home depot and went to work on this one. Used a table saw to rip it in half, then ran it over the router to shave the two chambers into it's bore. Glued the two pieces together and went to work tuning it. I used an online calculator to figure out the hole spacing, just guestimated the hole size and adjusted them to get it in tune, using a free tuner program I found online. The tuning is bang-on thanks to that program, although I've noticed it drifts a bit depending on temperature and humidity. I tuned it to D minor pentatonic scale.
The totem or fetish was supposed to resemble my Native zodiac, the otter, but I don't know how close I got with that
I put some ipe and hickory into the mouthpiece part. If anyone is interested, I can try to post a sound clip once I learn how to play it a bit. The tone is really nice, but the last time I played a flute was in grade 8, so it may take some time to brush up.
