Woggle aka a big bead/lanyard bead

[Kepis]

Simple little project to keep those grey cells of mine working, a woggle made from a section of Hazel. the initial hole was drilled out and then refined using a fine tipped blade, of course it could just be drilled out to the right size in the first place, but carving is fun and ive not done much in the past week or so due to illness.

 

[Wildgoose]

That’s really smart. I suppose a design could be carved in the bark as well?

Thinking out loud for a kids summer activity

 

[Mesquite]

Next comes the woodspirit woggle

 

[Pattree]

Now! This is interesting! I’m impressed.

For more than a year now I have been trying to make a bushcraft musical instrument.

How long do you think that you could make that tube?


This little whistle (technically it is an occarina and can play Beethoven) is the longest working tube that I’ve made just using a drill bit in a handle and following with a hand auger. (Lathes are hardly bushcraft tools!)

Could you get a blade into the ends of a tube say three times the length of your woggle bead?

Edited to wage war on the autocorrect.

Edited again to say:
Drilling it out to the right size to start with would be VERY much more difficult than it sounds.

 

[Kepis]

Next comes the woodspirit woggle

Funny you should say that.......

 

[Mesquite]

Funny you should say that.......

I look forward to seeing it soon

 

[Wildgoose]

My brother is starting to look like one of your wood spirits so would happily buy one from you

 

[Keith_Beef]

Now! This is interesting! I’m impressed.

For more than a year now I have been trying to make a bushcraft musical instrument.

How long do you think that you could make that tube?

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This little whistle (technically it is an occarina and can play Beethoven) is the longest working tube that I’ve made just using a drill bit in a handle and following with a hand auger. (Lathes are hardly bushcraft tools!)

Could you get a blade into the ends of a tube say three times the length of your woggle bead?

Edited to wage war on the autocorrect.

Edited again to say:
Drilling it out to the right size to start with would be VERY much more difficult than it sounds.

I would think that drilling a smaller diameter hole, then drilling out to a larger diameter would work for three times the length of the woggle and you could make two pieces with matching internal/external tapers.

I trick I saw on the internet is to use a spirit level to get your workpiece level in the vice and slip your wedding ring over the drill bit. Keep the drill bit aligned left to right by eye and use the ring to judge up and down. If your hand drill is too low, then the ring will move towards it; if the hand drill is too high, then the ring will move away from it

 

[Pattree]

Now that is a clever idea KB.

However I am able to hollow about half a meter of branch if I want to but not in any manner that I could call “bushcraft” And this is what I’d like to achieve.

I put a 350mm x 8mm drill into the chuck of a lathe and mount a roving support in the track. I then move the tailstock up the lathe to get a parallel hole.

But
This is not bushcraft and @Kepis ’ woggle gave me hope that, at least for my little ocarinas, there was a bushcraft way of doing it. By “bushcraft” I mean that I could sit outside of my tent and make the instrument with my hands and some simple tools.

Edited to link to Kepis.

 

[forrestdweller]

Now! This is interesting! I’m impressed.

For more than a year now I have been trying to make a bushcraft musical instrument.

How long do you think that you could make that tube?

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daft question: is that tube open on both ends or just the lower one?!

plenty of bamboo around so i might give it a try making one (although i've to admit the only instrument i can play is the fool...)

 

[Pattree]

I don’t want to hijack @Kepis thread. The tube is closed at the mouthpiece end by a shaped windway. In this case it’s cork.

I learned my flute making with a master of bamboo flutes.

I’d like to hollow out 90mm with a knife and @Kepis is two fifths of the way there.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Maybe burn it out with a piece of metal heated in your camp fire?

 

[Kepis]

@Mesquite

Carved with the SAK from a piece of well seasoned Hazel, I had to settle for a lanyard bead rather than a new woggle as i didn't have a suitably sized piece of Hazel handy.

The central hole was made initially with the awl on the SAK and then enlarged to approx 10mm with the saw, the length of the bead was determined by the length of the awl, ie the bead is just slightly shorter so i could awl all the way through.

It's a bit bit rough and ready, but the bead should mellow and gain softer edges over time and use.

 

[Pattree]

You’ve risen to the challenge . Very well done.
It can’t have been easy carving that short piece of wood - or did you cut and bore it after the wood spirit appeared?

 

[Kepis]

You’ve risen to the challenge . Very well done.
It can’t have been easy carving that short piece of wood - or did you cut and bore it after the wood spirit appeared?

Carved on the end of a larger stick inc boring the hole for safety, then removed when it was done.

 

[Wildgoose]

Looks great, will develop even more character with a bit of wear and dirt

 

[Mesquite]

@Mesquite

Carved with the SAK from a piece of well seasoned Hazel, I had to settle for a lanyard bead rather than a new woggle as i didn't have a suitably sized piece of Hazel handy.

The central hole was made initially with the awl on the SAK and then enlarged to approx 10mm with the saw, the length of the bead was determined by the length of the awl, ie the bead is just slightly shorter so i could awl all the way through.

It's a bit bit rough and ready, but the bead should mellow and gain softer edges over time and use.

Now that's a woggle with character

 

[Kepis]

Did another in a different style, again all done with the SAK, although this time i only used the awl to make the hole and didn't bother enlarging it with the saw, gives a nice grip on the paracord, but it does need pulling through with another cord to get both bits of cord through the hole.

That's enough for today me thinks

 

[Wildgoose]

Woodspirit whistle/occarina?

 

[Pattree]

If this is to me (@Pattree ) - I do have @Kepis ’ tutorial but I haven’t embarked on a Wood Spirit yet. Also I don’t possess the tools as described in the tutorial.

Besides my lathe produced instruments my next project is an attempt to bore a branch with an awl and blade.