Making a Brass Whistle

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  • Опубликовано: 13 апр 2018
  • Whistles have been around since forever, and they're so useful, from annoying everyone around you to...no...that's basically the most thing they're useful for. Today we're building two small brass whistles, check it out!
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    Josh Woodward - Twinklebell
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Комментарии • 115

  • @galaxydreaming
    @galaxydreaming 6 лет назад +9

    I will most likely never make a whistle yet I sit and watch the whole thing, your videos are always so nicely put together. ❤️👍🏻

  • @mversantvoort
    @mversantvoort 6 лет назад +2

    Looks great, well done!
    I especially like that the single tone version can be made without a lathe, so I might have a go at one...

  • @RetroPlus
    @RetroPlus 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful, simple and effective.

  • @Boudico
    @Boudico 6 лет назад +19

    *Loud Noises* ... pweeet! Hahahha

  • @BruceAUlrich
    @BruceAUlrich 6 лет назад +1

    Cool techniques using the piece of wood with the hole drilled in it to find the angle!

  • @Tugmun11
    @Tugmun11 6 лет назад +1

    yep I thought you might be going down the fire piston road too. Regardless Great wideo, Awesome proyect, a true home run... Love your channel. . .

  • @MarcelDiane
    @MarcelDiane 6 лет назад +15

    When I saw you put the O ring on I thought you where making a whistle/ fire piston.

  • @kookyflukes9749
    @kookyflukes9749 6 лет назад

    Nicely done.

  • @heyimamaker
    @heyimamaker 5 лет назад

    I made some of these in shop class many years ago!

  • @danmalgo7087
    @danmalgo7087 6 лет назад +2

    Your videos have such a great production value! I’ve been watching for ages now and are always so glad to see you’ve uploaded! You inspire me to stick with my Product Design degree ❤️

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      Cheers! Where do you study?

    • @danmalgo7087
      @danmalgo7087 6 лет назад

      UTS in Sydney, Australia

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      Very cool! I didn't know of it before but did some reading up. Looks like a well balanced programme. I wish we had a bit more engineering and manufacturing processes during BA at UID. Do you get to do any hand modeling and making or is it mainly digital? What kind of workshop do you have?

    • @danmalgo7087
      @danmalgo7087 6 лет назад

      It’s split pretty evenly between practical skills and more technical CAD and computer rendering processes. An entire floor of the Design, Architecture and Building building is a dedicated machining workshop - it’s pretty sweet! Most of the assignments are usually a few weeks of ideation - then a foam proof of concept model, then CADing the shell and 3D printing or manufacturing of the part. The course has its ups and downs but it’s pretty great overall. Thanks for taking the time to respond!

  • @dolfinmagikpro
    @dolfinmagikpro 5 лет назад +1

    What is the angle of the cut you made into the wood block at 1:03? Great project by the way!

  • @alonzosanchez8577
    @alonzosanchez8577 6 лет назад

    Awesome Video!!! 👍👍👍

  • @RRINTHESHOP
    @RRINTHESHOP 6 лет назад

    Great project, enjoyed.

  • @ftaloYT
    @ftaloYT 6 лет назад +7

    Lmao this track is found in every DIY vids. I suggest you use lofi/chillhop music or something calm and rhythmic the sort like the ones used in KMA.

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +2

      I choose the music I like for the videos, I chose this because I liked the wibe and it has whistling, which is appropriate. If you don't like it there is a mute button :)

    • @jeffreybrown2061
      @jeffreybrown2061 3 года назад

      @@SwitchAndLever
      Thanks for this video. Just what I needed right now. I just bought a small tea kettle for backpacking and it has no whistle, so I have to create one.
      The spout of the tea pot is only 1/2 inch in diameter. Very small.
      Jeff in Colorado

  • @reforzar
    @reforzar 6 лет назад

    I want one!

  • @VentureWelding
    @VentureWelding 5 лет назад

    What size or angle file is that? That I'd ask for at a hardware store

  • @fxtrader6647
    @fxtrader6647 3 года назад

    how do you know the exactly sizes (length of the tube, diamenter, shape of the holen etcetera) for achieving the most clear and loud whistle?
    In your video you don't give no measures. May be that with the same materials and work could get much better results...

  • @CoolKoon
    @CoolKoon 6 лет назад

    The finish is really nice, that's for sure. And kudos for using brass. That being said when I saw you cut the notch into the piping I was thinking "whoa! That's WAY too much!" though. And in the end when you tried the whistle, my suspicions were confirmed. I would've suggested starting out small (with the notch), trying the whole thing first, then tuning, then trying again (rinse and repeat) right until the sound is good. Then do the soldering, the surface finish and all the rest. But oh well, it's a bit late for that I suppose....

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +1

      It sounds a lot louder in real life than in the video though, the camera mic is crap. Either way, I do agree that that method is probably better all around.

  • @jerrymilligan2418
    @jerrymilligan2418 6 лет назад

    Do you think it would be possible to add a metal ball to make it sound like a coach's whistle? I'll be honest, I'm not used to working with metals. Maybe the reason that those whistles have a rounded body is to allow for a "rattle" like that.

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +1

      I wouldn't add a metal ball, but a rubber one. However, this whistle is not suitable for that as the opening is too big (ball would fall out) and the chamber too small for the ball to move around in.

  • @nightmarecuiture
    @nightmarecuiture 6 лет назад

    Can't stop whistling that damn song.

  • @HachaNov07
    @HachaNov07 5 лет назад

    Nice tools )

  • @GeneralBoboDK
    @GeneralBoboDK 6 лет назад

    You are a smart man, by any stretch of the word! :D

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      Haha! Depends entirely on the topic. Put me in a garden and set me to keep it alive and flourishing and I turn into a cro-magnon person. Ama, teşekkürler! :)

  • @wernerpfeifer
    @wernerpfeifer Месяц назад

    👍👍👍Grandios!

  • @sockman6058
    @sockman6058 6 лет назад

    nice music !

  • @rjbennington8468
    @rjbennington8468 6 лет назад +5

    I quite liked the music. The whistling was not lost on me.

  • @qvatch
    @qvatch 6 лет назад +3

    Didn't sound right, is too much air getting through?

    • @LeviG
      @LeviG 4 года назад

      I think it's simply too short and narrow, making too high-pitched sound for us to hear. I did that mistake when I made my first whistle with wood.

  • @PollyBonanzas
    @PollyBonanzas 4 года назад

    I thought I was going to go insane listening to that music loop so many times. lol. I didn't though, at least I think I didn't.

  • @dylanm.3692
    @dylanm.3692 3 года назад +1

    3:19 "All that for a drop of solder."

  • @fredlllll
    @fredlllll 6 лет назад

    could you make one of those wooden pipe organ pipes? preferable the bigger ones. i once tried myself but it didnt make a sound v_v

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      I probably could, with sufficient research into it. I don't know even the first part what goes into them. I looked and found there are many videos about it on RUclips already though, like this excellent one: ruclips.net/video/wQ_cw2sXPEA/видео.html

    • @fredlllll
      @fredlllll 6 лет назад

      hmm guess ill have to adapt mine to the numbers he used

  • @kadebrown6162
    @kadebrown6162 6 лет назад

    nice music, 🔊

  • @pleasetakemynamenow
    @pleasetakemynamenow 6 лет назад

    What angles do you use for the insert and opening? Or am I just a little full and uninformed? I have always struggled to get a whistle to sound...

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      The angle isn't all that important, the key is to direct the air stream towards the sharp edge at the far side of the hole we filed up.

    • @mach0elf
      @mach0elf 6 лет назад

      I tried making one and it worked until I soldered it. Will try again.

    • @pleasetakemynamenow
      @pleasetakemynamenow 6 лет назад

      that is awesome - this opens up a couple of things for me! thanks - sorry i took so long to reply internet access has been a little issue....

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary 6 лет назад

    I don’t have all those power tools, but I’ll bet I could make one of those whistles with just a file and a hacksaw.

  • @mikejames1860
    @mikejames1860 5 лет назад

    I want someone to do this large scale and use em as muffler tips hahaha

  • @raymondo162
    @raymondo162 3 года назад

    does not need the o-ring. it will work better without because it will slide more easily, so it's easier to move the slide faster. check out vintage birdcage automata to see proper whistle job

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  3 года назад

      Does not need it maybe, but works better with it if the fits aren't very tight. Never did I make this out to be a "proper whistle job" 🙂

  • @fsecofficial
    @fsecofficial 3 года назад

    You’ll get a sharper pitch if you sharpen the flute

  • @manickn6819
    @manickn6819 6 лет назад

    Hand reamed and you have a lathe? Personally I would have gone for a press fit. Silver soldering is very strong but it never looks neat and I hate how the heat discolours the brass. Too much rework after.

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      I wouldn't trust a press fit over time though being in contact with hot and cold cycles. It would have to be a hot press fit, which at that point I could just as well solder it anyway.

    • @manickn6819
      @manickn6819 6 лет назад

      I am from the Caribbean so I never really considered the temperature cycles on any of my projects. I am sure even in temperate zones they do a lot of press fits. I am no machinist. Just hobby stuff like you so I may be off here but I find about 4 thou works fine. Someone like Stefan Gotteswinter might be in a better position to chime in on what is appropriate for the diameter and temperature variations.

  • @SweetTooth8989
    @SweetTooth8989 2 года назад

    Locktite should work just as well if you don't have a solder.

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  2 года назад

      I would not put Loctite, even cured, in my mouth.

  • @doubledarefan
    @doubledarefan 6 лет назад +1

    0:16 Independence Day (1996 film) parody?

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +1

      Haha! I don't know what it was, I just had fun 3D modeling :)

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 5 лет назад

      @@SwitchAndLever I wondered where that came from!

  • @tunbergtunis85
    @tunbergtunis85 6 лет назад

    I miss you talking and describing your process and cracking jokes. :)

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      I'm only doing one of these non talky videos every now and then, there's no cause for missdom! :)

  • @behindbars1659
    @behindbars1659 4 года назад

    That freaked out my dog

  • @95nystuen
    @95nystuen 6 лет назад +2

    Love ur vids man

  • @pjhalchemy
    @pjhalchemy 6 лет назад

    Dogs bark and yet the caravan passes. ROLF, Non Sequitur on instagram. Following in that light, that file was very high quality looking to me. Can you please ask me where you got it ~¿~. Love all these simple musical instruments...especially the 35k year old 5 hole one made from bird bone found in Germany. Thank you Daniel! I will warble on non sequiturely now, until next time. ~PJ

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +1

      It's a Vallorbe file, gotten from a local supplier in Sweden.

  • @wtfiswiththosehandles
    @wtfiswiththosehandles 6 лет назад +39

    Nice little project, absolutely awful music. It's like one of those generic tunes they use for commercials...

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      You can't please everyone, if you don't like it you can just mute it :)

    • @CoolKoon
      @CoolKoon 6 лет назад

      MasterBata Yep, except the commercials last only a couple seconds (thank God!) and the background music is much more quiet so that it doesn't distract the viewer from whatever crap they're trying to sell.

  • @danyzimo2064
    @danyzimo2064 Год назад

    0:44 well

  • @ralph5450
    @ralph5450 6 лет назад +1

    I made a wooden whistle but it wooden whistle. I made a steel whistle and I steel couldn't whistle. So I made a tin whistle..... Now I tin whistle.

  • @koi-irako
    @koi-irako 6 лет назад

    bristle

  • @VentureWelding
    @VentureWelding 6 лет назад

    Great production but damn if that music isn't as annoying as Mr Roger's Neighborhood.

  • @corncobjohnsonreal
    @corncobjohnsonreal 6 лет назад +17

    I don't like the background song, it's so basic

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +4

      Then turn off the audio :)

    • @corncobjohnsonreal
      @corncobjohnsonreal 6 лет назад +2

      Switch & Lever I did

    • @puddinhead99
      @puddinhead99 6 лет назад +1

      Switch & Lever why the switch to commentaryless video?

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад +2

      I haven't switched, I'm doing both. In reality the production time goes up dramatically with narration and the video becomes less interestingly cut. For videos like these that don't require a lot of input, where it's more clear what I'm doing, I'd rather keep it without narration and have more fun editing the video.

    •  6 лет назад +1

      I like the background song, it's so basic.

  • @franklima
    @franklima 6 лет назад

    The background music killed this video for me.

  • @Kapten_R3
    @Kapten_R3 6 лет назад

    3:02 how to make a brass whistle look ugly

  • @benali2923
    @benali2923 5 лет назад

    I can do this with my lips 😑

  • @MartinWobble
    @MartinWobble 6 лет назад

    That song........................ seriously

  • @Kapten_R3
    @Kapten_R3 6 лет назад +1

    Första svensken haha

  • @nicolea2839
    @nicolea2839 3 года назад

    Hotel doormen use these

  • @1019wc1019
    @1019wc1019 6 лет назад

  • @birdman7083
    @birdman7083 4 года назад

    $50k of equipment to make a $2 whistle

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  4 года назад

      Oh my god! You’re right! I really should stop getting equipment, making a tiny part and then throwing away the equipment. This is really destroying my personal economy!
      Or if you failed to get that sarcasm, stop being obtuse and watch my FAQ video where I cover your comment in detail and why it is so abysmally ignorant.

  • @nicolea2839
    @nicolea2839 3 года назад

    Doorman tech

  • @maxschaefer7429
    @maxschaefer7429 6 лет назад

    8th

  • @siggyretburns7523
    @siggyretburns7523 2 года назад

    Not very descriptive in making it.

  • @nicolea2839
    @nicolea2839 3 года назад

    Any doormen watching this?

  • @kentowakai1234
    @kentowakai1234 6 лет назад

    WARNING: Ginger beard

  • @95nystuen
    @95nystuen 6 лет назад +2

    First

  • @lucasleroy2584
    @lucasleroy2584 6 лет назад

    Hey I really like your videos, but I'm sorry, this music, it's hard to listen to, really. It makes you insane to be forced to listen to a song that repeats exactly every 8 bars !
    If you're not gonna talk, leave the sound of you working, we ain't exactly here to listen to some music, especially some bad ones ;)

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      Or how about I continue making the videos I like, and if you find them not to your liking you don't watch them? I think that sounds like a better deal all around, as the person I'm first and foremost making videos for is me. Not to mention that the videos would be getting copyright strikes left and right due to music playing in the workshop while I work.
      Don't know where you feel you're forced to listen though, I'm sure you know how a volume button works.

  • @RoscoRSR2
    @RoscoRSR2 6 лет назад

    Cut. Those. Fingernails. Please!

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      As long as it upsets small minded people, never!

    • @rjbennington8468
      @rjbennington8468 6 лет назад

      What's the difference between a crafts-person and a hand model?

    • @SwitchAndLever
      @SwitchAndLever  6 лет назад

      Dirty fingernails, open wounds, bandages and scars showing past mistakes?

  • @redgum1340
    @redgum1340 11 месяцев назад

    Doesn't sound much good

  • @ianbarber2937
    @ianbarber2937 5 лет назад

    This music gave me a headache! Cool build, horrible music.