The grommets/ferules that you hammer into the top where the strings anchor… may I ask please where can I get them? what are they called? search terms?

Definitely worth the time spent making it. It sounds really good. I will have a go myself once I have worked out the measurements. Did you use guitar spruce for the front sound board?

I suspect making the wooden piece longer would give the louder sound. Also some people say it's not good to sand the edges.

Love this, I am definitely going to make something along these lines. Thanks for a great vid.

Can I use Eucalyptus wood also ?

fantastic ,good job my friend, very talented. gotta try it

Once i saw your video about Tower of Hanoi, i said to myself i am going to watch all of them. Very relaxing! I just hope that we have a Artisan like you here in Germany so i could have my dream puzzle as well..

sweet job

Wait, you skipped the previous step to threading the strings through the bottom holes. How the hell did you get them inside and through them in the first place?

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very Nice , thank You Sir , i will build me a wooden Phone soon

Whats the point? To scare off game??

More like a bullfrog sound, i think...

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Great video. Are your designs available anywhere? I'm a disability support worker and I think my client might like something like this (he's made a cutting board, box, chess board). Great content. Cheers.

As a child,i did that with a ruler

Guy: Begins twirling a piece of wood on a string. Caveman: He did say what I think he said about my mother?

1:40 "They have been used around the entire world for communication [...]" Two men stand on opposite mountains with a vast distance between them. One swings his bullroarer over his head. (Dude! Check out this sick piece of wood I found!)

I'd like to hear how it sounds strapped to a drill or some motor and spun

how loud is this? you cant get a good tell due to volume mixing and speakers. but on the ground. in person. how loud is it? does the sound carry further than you expect?

I wonder if you could call in a Bigfoot with one of these.

There needs to be two wing ventures opposite each side. This way it tries to fly in each direction causing much more disharmony

Almost sounds like ducks or geese.

I've been kind of fascinated with these ever since Crocodile Dundee. I've made lots of versions, basically every time I find anything that is roughly the right shape (dog tags, plastic tags, bits of wood, etc.). I've found that keeping them small and light makes them much easier to manage and the thinner the string, the longer the sound will last before switching modes. In the video, you can see an interesting phenomenon where the bullroarer oscillates between different positions depending on how it's rotating (you can see it going high and low when swung horizontally). Interestingly, you can do something similar without string by throwing anything relatively rectangular with a little bit of backspin. If you get it right, the Magnus effect will cause the object to fly around in the air and make the same kind of bullroarer noise.

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What is that first saw you used called. Great video. Thank you for your work.

Crocodile Dundee

this is what drones sound like, 4 bullroarers going at once

My dad made one of these for me once.

About the handle: I can attest to the fact that adding a handle is a good ide; you wouldnt believe the amount of painful blisters that will result if you dont use one.

Remember the one from Crocodile Dundee 2, didn't know they had a name. Glad to know, there's a hiking spot near a huge valley that would be great for one of these.

1987 Midnight Oil releases Diesel and Dust. Track 8 - Bullroarer. I never knew what a bullroarer was until today.

made these in middle school shop class hearing 25 of these all at once was crazy

Lookie, can I make a suggestion - the finished product doesn't show up so great against that corn coloured background. When I posted my spoon photo on Facebook I laid it on a red tee-shirt. Showed up beautifully. I'm just Sue Collins on fb with a photo of a bird as a profile photo. So if you want to have a look...

You SHOULD be pleased with it! It's BEAUTIFUL!

I love sanding... Sanding is how I made my first spoon. I love my spoon...

G'day, Back in the 1990s the local Tribal Elders gave me permission to make and paint and sell Boomerangs & Gayandis ("Bull-Roarers") ; because I was a Propeller-carver, and I asked politely. My Channel has 23 Playlists, one is "Personal Aeroplanology..." & another is "Aboriginal Technology ". My guess is that you will probably be interested in "Boomerang Aerophysics ; Gyroscopically-Stabilised & Guided Autorotating Hubless Assymetric Swept-Wing Rotary-Winged Sailplanes...!" There's a couple about "The Boomerang-Carving Stone...!" There's one about, "Aerodynamic Aboriginal Artefacts...; Boomerang, Bull-Roarer And Woomera..." And there's a bit of a Series on "Magical Thinking..." Which has a couple of Videos devoted to Gayandis...("Bull Roarers"). And, whereas I can make and sell Boomerangs to anyone, with a verbal explanation ; the Gayandis were only sold with an Owner's Manual - because they're, literally, Magic-Spell Enhancers, or Amplifiers....(!). 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Refers to the point that, traditionally, Women were not permitted to remain within the sound of a Gayandi ("within a Bull's Roar"/ sound of a "Bull-Roarer"...; on a Continent where Cattle (MooCows & Roaring Bulls) are all Imported, Introduced (Feral) {Noxious} Pestilential Species... Indicating that there is NOTHING Traditional...; about the name "Bull Roarer"...(!). Untangling the deeply culturally-ingrained Whitefulla's Blackfulla Stories from the underlying Actuality...; can take a lot of doing, I find...(!). By the way, I pay the Council Rates on a hundred acres of Regrowth Forest atop a Ridge 15 Km out of town, which I've run as an Endangered Species Sanctuary for 33 years. It's where I live, off-grid. After the first few years I was finding "Didgeridoo Blanks" - straight naturally-hollow Branches, 4 to 8 ft long, cut off square, leaning up against Trees and Stumps, and all 80 to 120 + years old - to look at...; and a "half-finished" Coolamon (curved Wooden-shell like a Half-Pipe, used for carrying gathered-up Foodplants, or small Game, a Baby, whatever needed to be held securely...). At the 21 year mark I was given custody of the Boomerang-Carving Stone..., at the 28 year mark l found the Stone Didgeridioo-Spokeshaeve,with two curved Cutting-Edges in different Radiuses..., and last year I found the Coolamon-Carving Stone - whose Eliptical Cutting-Edge ,(one of 3 - one being Serpentine & another one Straight & flat)..., actually FITS THE CUT-MARKS in the Half-finished Coolamon that I found, here, 30 years ago....(!). And, confusingly, 10 years ago my older brother told me that for a dozen years before I was born, our Grandfather used to bring him out here, precisely to where I pay the Rates - to collect Charcoal for his Blacksmiths Forge...(!). As the Tribal Elders put it, when they gave me permission to make and paint and sell Boomerangs & Gayandis...; "...Mate, if you can Explain Aboriginal Technology To the Whitefullas...; Well .., That would Have to be an Improvement...!" And, so, I do try. Currently 7 different local species of wild Unfenced Native Animals & Birds visit me daily, to eat from my hand and another 14 Species "only" come to drink at my Waterdishes, relax, hang out - and otherwise treat me as being a Harmless (though rare, and multi-Species, Shared... )Totemic Human. So, to fact-check me ; perhaps consult the Local Wildlife who know me best. Wild Kangaroos and Swamp Wallabies have zero tolerance of Bullshit coming from Humans ; and the ones who live around here treat me as being harmless, and friendly. I've known some of them since their 7-Greats Grandmother was a Joey in the Pouch...(!). What better Character Reference might a Human offer ? 7 of the 23 Playlists on my Channel are Wildlife Encounters..., sorted by Species (!). Enjoy...(?) (Your choice....). Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

They make a much different noise when they smack you in the face

very cool

very cool

This counts as woodworking? Cutting out a shape and thats it?

So I was looking for a Celt or Scott war whistle swung overhead .makes same sound as in majors & generals by XTC .& Beethoven by Eurythmics

How loud is it? Anything like a whistle in how far it carries?

This man knows how to swing

love it, this is a great video, thanks for making it!

Made these 50 years ago. Been wanting to make one lately to take hiking. Maybe a first defense for predators. Scare them off with noise, and if that don't work...then resort to physical means.

My first introduction to this instrument/tool was from Crocodile Dundee 2.