2. Mouthpiece has a hollow head with two lifetime poly tuning plugs.

3. The copper tuning slide is permanently bonded to the head to provide a tight fit with the tone body.

4. If you already know whistle fingering, you can instantly play the Auto Flute!

5. The mouthpiece comes with a tuning slide clip to view your tuning distance. Makes the tuning slide extra strong and lets you leave the tuning clip on your whistle.

6. No puckering up to make an embouchure, no practicing your technique! You just pick up the flute and blow a perfect note the first time you try.

7. You can play ornamentations and special effects on this mouthpiece with practically no effort at all! Just blow in the mouthpiece hole like you would on a whistle and make wonderful sounding music on your flute.

8. Save money and expand your instrument selection by converting all three keys (A,G,F) to great sounding flutes.

Flute head fits WhistleSmith 2007 and up Low A, Low G, and Low F whistles. Flute head is in stock for immediate shipment.

This flute head can be used for making your own custom flute design. Copper slide is a standard size connector and can easily be fitted to a bamboo or metal body of your own design. Sideshooter mouthpiece will blow a variety of medium to large bore flute tubes.

*If you want another solution, you can purchase a Low G Auto Flute for $34.95 and use the head to play your Low A and Low F whistle. The whistle head on the Low A fits the Low G Auto Flute body and converts it to a Low G whistle! Sooo...you have three whistles and three flutes available from this combination.

Allow four working days for UPS orders to ship. Delivered directly to you from WhistleSmith (Monday-Friday).

Here is a great little setup that will save you some cash and work for almost any project where you need to hold your work at various angles. I got the idea after pricing gun makers and pattern makers vise for the shop and found they ranged in cost from $150. to over $200. I might have gone with the cost but, neither style vise was maneuverable enough to get all the angles I wanted to work with. Mouthpieces are hard to hold without marking them up and need to be held very solidly when scraping and finishing the wind ways. Sooo...I had a swivel vise on hand that was adequate in size for a base and easy to mount and I decided to start there. Out in the wood shop there were two dozen Pony pipe clamps for gluing up wood that were just setting there waiting for something to do. By combining an eighteen inch Pony clamp with the vise, I had a really useful device.

When using this combination, you can clamp the pipe into the vise and get any angle up and down that you wish. You can swivel the vise 90° to move the vise out of your way or move it to directly in front so it is easy and convenient to work on. Open up the Pony clamp and you can hold wide pieces and shorten the clamp to hold small pieces securely. You can press parts together by using the clamp extended and turning the tightening clamp screw to push the parts together. I press the mouthpiece into the tuning slide with this method and it is really slick!

One of the great features of using this combination is the vise is mounted ready to use on its own. Just take out the Pony clamp, set it aside and you can go to work on a project that only requires the vise.

I had the vise and Pony clamp on hand in the shop but you can purchase a similar vise for about $30. and a Pony clamp with a two foot piece of pipe for about $16. at almost any hardware store. Oh, I forgot! you can hold very long pieces up to four feet or even longer by just putting a longer pipe in the Pony clamp.

Using the Shoe Jig, you get better results while shortening the time it takes to make a Wicked Good Whistle!

Originally I made the tuning slide on a wooden jig in the drill press, not unlike the setup shown in the photo. The slide requires the bore of the piece of pipe to be cut to a slide fit about two thirds of the way in the pipe. This bore must be very straight with the pipe, cleanly cut, and most importantly, easy to do, because every Low D has to have one. The original jig I used was clever, but slow to load and cranky to get set up and cutting accurately.

When I discovered a magnetic V block in the Grizzly catalog, I got the idea it would be great to set up for doing drilling jobs like the tuning slide. The V block has a switch that turns the magnet on and off and you can set the block on the drill press table or on a slide vise like I show in the photo. The block will not move once the switch is turned on, so you can also use it for a stop or for measuring lengths of cut pieces on your table saw. It is a very handy gadget and Grizzly sells them for about $8. in the catalog. I probably sound like I work for Grizzly, but after looking for stuff everywhere, they usually have it in stock for a good price.

I set the V block on center in the slide vise and align the piece to be drilled with the laser so the drill is true to the bore. The slide vise pushes the pipe into the V block and self centers it into the V. This is a fast and accurate way to drill or ream pipe and it sets up fast!

There are three full sized wood lathes in the shop. They all have a long history going back to about 1940 and I obtained them when they had been replaced by newer equipment. The Powermatic in the picture was made from two lathes that had been junked by a school department. After replacing the motor and getting some bits and pieces that were missing, the lathe runs like new. I use it to turn all types of wooden bowls, urns and fishing plugs and it is a very nice machine to work on.

I needed to turn down the plug material for the whistle mouthpieces so they would fit precisely and it is not practical to do fine tolerance work like this on a wood lathe. I needed a machine lathe to do the job and a good one costs around three grand and change to start. So after thinking about the difference between the two machines, I came to the conclusion there wasn't a huge difference in the lathes for what I needed to do and I decided to mount a slide vise on the lathe and cut the plugs using the equipment I had on hand.

Before I could get everything in place, I made a trip to Boston to visit Jay C. and family and we went to the Rockler Store in Cambridge to pick up some router bits. My long time friend Woody was in house and I discussed my idea about the slide vise being used on the wood lathe. He thought the idea was a good one and mentioned it would be a nice way to turn writing pens and handles that need long straight cuts.

I originally thought I would use one of the Bitmoore slide vises, but I had a Shop Fox from Grizzly that was a little shorter in height and fit the lathe better. After mounting the vise and adjusting the travel and alignment, I can turn six inch sections of rod within .002" tolerances for a nice fitting mouthpiece plug and have zero waste. You can also turn tenons and joints in pipe with very good accuracy.

For safety, I replaced the handle on the slide vise with a rod from an old trophy and I can move the cutting tool in the slide vise without being near the piece as it is turning. This is not a dangerous turning procedure, but turning the handle with the long rod is great fun!

I purchased a steb center to drive the rod to be turned from Penn State for $24. which has a retractable center and fine drive ring that doesn't mark the ends of the rod. You can also mount the rod without turning the lathe off if you like!

All that remained was to hook up the shop vacuum for an air supply and spray! The setup works like a charm and there is no odor or over spray. When I get done spraying, I just snap the cover on the box and everything looks very nice and tidy because it appears to be a nice clean box screwed to the wall!

Another plus feature I had not thought of is vinyl doesn't stick to poly. When the vinyl gets a good film on the inside of the box, you can just vacuum the over spray right off the sides and the box is back to looking like brand new.

This setup would work for spraying all kinds of small items and craft projects and costs less than $20. to put together as long as you have a vacuum on hand.