baroque flute making: fitting key slot and axle

Adjusting the key seat on the footjoint and getting a straight hole for the key axle may not be easy with very low technology. Here a possible solution that has worked decently well. The footjoint shown is not the same during the different steps:

1-footjoint turned and acid stained
2-jig for holding footjoint on lathe
3-milling the key slot
4-strip of sandpaper glued on ridge
5-cleaning the key slot
6-drilling radially a blind hole (about 3 mm depth)
7-correction of hole bottom with a flat surface vertically oriented (step not indispensable)
8- tapering hole walls
9-aspect of tapered blind hole
10-jig for holding footjoint during boring
11-footjoint is held beetwen the two conical guides
12-1 mm twist drill fixed on top of hand held shaft
13-boring axle hole
14-the drill exits from a conical guide and enters the other
15-cleaning the hole and making it straight
16-(if available) four corner tapered reamer for correcting hole axis
17- sitting the key and drilling with the 1 mm twist drill

email: filadelfio.puglisi@tin.it

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• baroque
• flute
• making

[flutemakeryoung]

thanks a lot for the attention master puglisi!a good suggestion would be to show as if it manufactures the keys of the flute!

[filadelfiopuglisi]

A juweler makes them for me (easy in Florence!) using the lost wax process and sterling silver. The key comes quite rough from the mold and needs sanding and polishing.

[javijazztazz]

I'm interested how much do you sell your flutes

thanks

[instrumentmaker777]

What super attention to the finest details. This is being very faithful to original artifact. Molto Grazie Maestro!

[YANAGITAtokinori]

Thank you for many image !

I cut key slot by mini mill.