Make a wood whistle in five minutes

A few people were asking for more details about the small whistle I mentioned at the end of my train whistle video. You can make it with just hand tools. You will need a 3/4" dowel and a 3/8" dowel. And a 3/8" drill bit.
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[@johnlehman6849]

My ten year old and I have made at least 25 of these together since watching your video! ALL the neighbor kids have them now and they love them. Thank you for sharing. It was amazing quality time with my sons. It was also a great way to get them excited about making something instead of buying to paying someone else. That same ten year old wants to start selling them to classmates for $5 a piece. So we may have created a monster!! LOL Thanks again for sharing.

[@chrisparker5372]

Thanks for mentioning that it doesn't matter if the hole's off-center. If you hadn't, I'd still be in the basement, drill hole #93 in dowel #93!

[@GiaRcheulishvili]

0:58 that sound.

[@mikefalkner8295]

THANKS !! One of our grandsons was having a 2-year birthday party in 3 days. The theme was coo-coo trains. So made 20 of these very quickly. WHAT A HIT !! Lots of noise. Parents not so happy however, but who cares. The kids LOVE them. Thanks for showing how simple it is to make.

[@Calmari03]

Awesome! I have all the supplies I need for these in my shop right now...going to make some to give to my brother-in-law's kids!!!

[@NadimahElizabeth]

This was cool to see! I went to a Rudolph Steiner school where all my classmates used their own hand made flutes during music....I had missed the class :( but inherited an old one. They were bamboo and had holes drilled and a cork in the mouth bit....sure its nearly three decades late but I may just make one after all! Thank you!

[@hillbournesian]

That is great! Here in Japan we make them from bamboo- same principle, but we don't have to drill!

[@8Krischi8]

NiCe, as a little kid we used to make these out of elder-sticks and hazelbush twigs, probably an even faster way... if youve got a sharp leatherman or swiss knive =) Really brings up some niCe memmories !

[@grbroussard]

I made one! Works perfect! Thanks!!!

[@Secure-road]

Very good

[@wyssmaster]

I finally made one of these last year after putting it off for I don't know six or seven, out of a walnut dowel. It looked great and sounded great, and then I tried to add more notes by drilling a couple holes...which ruined it completely. Even plugging the holes didn't make it sound as good as it did before. I'll have to look and see if there's some more information on how to make something with more tones

[@Hylander27]

AHHHHHH! MY EARS!!!!!!!!!! (headphones +high volume)

[@eugenelenarz5548]

Regarding applying finish to the whistle: If you want a shiny finish, you may use shellac; it's not toxic (in fact, it's edible). If you want a soft lustre, I'd recommend Kerf's Wood Cream (or is it Kreme?). I use the latter on the wooden spoons that I make for cooking. Great whistle: I just finished making my first out of scrap wood to see whether, in fact, I can make one that works. Next ones will be with cleaner wood and will be Xmas presents for grandsons.

[@SteveRamsey]

Yes. It's easier for people to quickly identify them as my videos.

[@JonWells]

Thanks Steve!

[@wubby9144]

gna make this tomorrow😁😁

[@Engineer9736]

@Tom Polanske, it's the length of the pipe which determines the pitch. Longer = lower, shorter = higher. The diameter determines how many subharmonics there are in the tone. I've been building my own pipe organ from wood.. got drowned in this stuff :-)

[@JustFun-iz9rf]

I like it

[@MrTimb56]

Great video.... I was going nuts trying to figure out were the "more information" was last night .... :)..... how and my snow flakes turned out great! thanks

[@MrSkeeter18]

Thanks Steve.

[@Secure-road]

& very nice work

[@thiswoodwork]

Thanks. I may have to steal that idea! :P

[@NeuroWrangler]

Change the depth of the hole and you change the pitch so a slide whistle does exactly that. Drilling holes should change the pitch too since the tube is effectively longer when the holes are covered and shorter when the holes are uncovered.

[@chachi111769]

Thank you Steve I searched and couldn't find it.... Thank you for doing the video on it I know a couple Grandkids who will be very happy and some parents who won't be Lmaooo Oh the joys of being a grandparent

[@cah0707]

Notice when he says I'm gonna just eyeball it there is a drawing of a eye in the background

[@mirkwoodowl4296]

Cool I made one but out of a thick stick and a knife it works quite well! :D

[@ncsanta]

Love it

[@ironfu]

I wonder if drilling a few holes in it could give you a couple of notes to play on it, turn it into a simple recorder of sorts.

[@RickMcQuay]

If ya wanna get fancy, drill out the notch that you cut by hand. Just need a jig for your drill press to drill a 45d angle.

[@Lilly-ys5wm]

can you do a demo on how to make the cuckoo clock bellows? just the hollow part

[@Gapcoproductions1]

cool i found it :D i must try it out !

[@mpcoleman]

Cool!!! It would be easy (maybe...) to modify this into a slide whistle. You'd have to drill all the way through and make the end adjustable.

[@thiswoodwork]

Nice one Steve, who would have known it was so easy to make a whistle! Oh I also meant to ask you about your videos, I noticed a while back you branded your videos so to speak with the same WWMM design on each videos image. Have you found this is worth it? Thanks, Alex.

[@frankbarrett2974]

thank you

[@gustavoroblesmaldonado5347]

Gracias por compartir.

[@Cerbenix_]

OMG! You used a handsaw. :D

[@belinhafernandes]

Ahahah! That was nice. Do you know those ceramic birds people get water inside and then whistle? I always liked it but never got one.

[@1993MAZDAMIATA]

MY DOWEL KEEPS BReaking

[@thatsawesomethankyou9582]

That'sAwesome!ThankYou! you would think youtube would make this the first video to show up when you type make a wood whistle...but no......

[@lutoevigor]

Be sure to make a whistle. Thank you!

[@foisalahmmed6345]

nice....

[@legoman19951]

hay i tryed to make this and it works but i did not a dowell so i got a tow by four and carved to 1/2 inch round whit a spocke shave

[@ange8855]

Can you have any size hole or does it have to be the size said?

[@elif.9695]

Great video; what size dowels did you use???? Thanks

[@NeuroWrangler]

It's complicated. I've never made a flute but I'm making a xylophone and the book Musical Instrument Design by Bart Hopkin goes into the theory of different kinds instruments in a practical and scientific way.

[@memeland5425]

Steve. Hi what if it doesn’t whistle at all. Have I done it wrong or what I did everything you said

[@steinie44]

Just how I make em.

[@amugs3314]

How deep does the hole go

[@tst698]

Elder works best because the pith is very weak and i instead of using a drill you could you use pointy stick for elder

[@sony8227]

How far do you drill the hole

[@douglashill4592]

Steve Can u show us how to make a whistle that attracts girls?

[@jamesanthony8438]

I think those are called "wolf whistles" and all that they attract these days are sexual harassment lawsuits :(

[@EverydayADV]

The bigger the whole thing is, the deeper the tone right?

[@ShelXanadar]

Dowels fit better into the piece he made, if you could find a plastic or metal dowel to fit the same, they would work as well.

[@schnipsikabel]

nice, but that would take me definitively more than 5 minutes ;)

[@freewoodencrosses]

You did not say, is that a 1/2 inch dowel or larger?

[@zanefisher6522]

How deep should you drill the hole

[@LtFox717]

As Deep as she lets you >:)

[@4wdsome444]

53 miles,

[@DavidANeely]

I'm gonna make me one

[@Rickmakes]

What next...slide whistle?

[@MrBrooklynfiend]

Question how could one finish this? Linseed oil? I am not sure as I know it has to be basically food safe or am I wrong? Id love to make this but stain them

[@Techmatt167Official]

dont use stain. use something like a light coat of vegetable oil on it or leave it without any finish. its safe as long as you dont touch it in your mouth.

[@TheMightyX]

Matthewtchernev123 Could you perhaps achieve good results using the "Bee's Oil" they sell for sealing cutting boards, or would that be all wrong? Or could you use beeswax or mineral oil separately? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@VaporTimes]

I'm trying to do this with some branches I cut off a tree of mine and I'm struggling Anyone got any extra tips on This

[@VaporTimes]

I figured it out. Don't drill all the way thru the branch. My bad 😅

[@ExclusiveManual]

the squeaky noise from the file and the saw makes me want to pull my hair out.

[@dave7810]

Dude it took me two hours to do that 😡

[@LTbeanss]

Patriot 202 not his fault bro

[@Laffy1345]

Patriot 202 😂😂😂

[@W-Ostr]

If you know exactly what you doing and have prepared materials, you can do this in 5 minutes.

[@horizonsystems178]

I like how this video is straightfoward and no bullshit

[@christophermiller8069]

Does it work with bone

[@danielduke6422]

Christopher Miller why wouldn’t it?

[@sezarsezar-ei4wc]

GOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@poostaink2731]

poggers

[@justincase3320]

made a whistling sound with the file

[@AdrenalinRusher]

Make a wood whistle in 1:51 :)

[@GuyRandom]

how far you put it in just keep playing with it drill a hole in there .................

[@RickMcQuay]

People make penny whistles that way.

[@diederichabels8119]

You will find a lot of interesting information and tips on how to do it in stodoys instructions and projects.

[@andychen4220]

Steve Ramey

[@JosephLorentzen]

Now, can you make a dog whistle?

[@maxdecphoenix]

bitte mein obersterblichsturmführer, edit the file-to-wood noise next time please :(

[@NobleMarcos]

Love the video, but those squeaky sounds the wood makes kill me

[@PILOSOPAUL]

Making a wood whistle - 5 minutes Having those necessary equipment - more than 5 days, more than 500 $ Looking for some spare wood in the city - more than forever

[@Roderick895]

More like $20 for a drill from Harbor Freight, $10 for a hand saw from Harbor Freight, $8 for a rasp from Harbor Freight. About $5 for a good amount of wood from Home Depot.

[@chrishenderson1983]

if u make whistles don't let the kids get hold of them or will drive you nuts. lol

[@freakkater]

redid and needed about 2 hours to the store, 1 hour to search every tool, half an hour to build, 24 hours to dry well and 15 minutes to clean up! if you call that 5 minutes...

[@timsheerman]

Ears bleeding lol

[@gunelmahmudova1138]

Tstcj

[@REMIX8604]

I watched lost and not I want to make a whistle god damn it

[@UrMom-vq4en]

How many likes can moto moto get