Charlie, what a wonderful video. You make the creation of a bone flute look easy, and I know first hand that bone flutes are not easy to make. You always make videos that are both a joy to watch and educational at the same time. You are a talented artist and a good guy. Keep up the good work..!! 🙂

Sitting here in awe! Your talents and skills never cease to amaze me! With many Blessings and Thanks for all you do and share. 💙💙💙

Your Fluges are great.Goof Luck with your Shopsnd Channel.I believe in you.

This is so Exciting. i love seeing the different woods and how they will look when worked to perfection. Dang Cool!

Thank you friend for a beautiful video 🙏 May you have happy days 🌲🦋🌲

I have eaten mesquite berries. I had a supervisor who told me about them. Her family had eaten them as far back as she can remember. She was of Mexican heritage.

such a cool video. thank you for letting us watch over your shoulder as you worked. the whole video was excited to hear the different sounds coming from each material

A joy to watch and very informative. Thank you Charlie

Your discussion regarding Agave has mentally taken me back to the Summer of 1988. While in Mexico, I had 2 culinary firsts for me, the first being drinking Pulque, which is the sap of the Agave, unrefined, fermented with the makers saliva. Thick, with a kick. To eat with them I had tacos filled with Jumiles (Mexican stink bugs). I much preferred the live ones to their fried counterparts. They were kept in the tortilla by smearing honey to keep them in place, and to accentuate their sweet, crunchy goodness. 😂

Love your work brother 😊 it's always a pleasure watching your videos and sharing them with people from all around mother earth.

I saw an amazing video of a guy playing a flute, made from a large feather. So amazing! I’d love to know how the heck he managed that, but can only see so much when I zoom in. Pretty cool Thanks for sharing as always Charlie

The way I have had it explained to me, agave from various regions and species yeild different " variations" of the " tequila" family depending on how they are processed during the fernentation prep procedures. There are about 6 catagories of spirits, each one with it's own unique characteristics: tequila, raicillia, pulque ( a type of agave style mead), mezcal, bacanora and sotol. Aside from the fermented beverages, agave produces various other products like alternative sugar sources ( zweeteners, syrup, and honey) as well as soap and fibers used in textile fabrication. Hope this helps out!

Seeing your cat on your shoulders reminds me of the pet Racoon (named Troubles, for obvious reasons) I had when I was 8 years old. He rode on my shoulders like that while I rode my bike. Michael

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I have a mesquite tree, but the bats and birds get to eat all the berries. 😊

Here for the cat. Love how kitty is Hugging his daddy. Hopefully you will run a special…. free shoulder cat with every purchase…..

Awesome

That's cool. Definitely has some pitch to it. I've been thinking of other stuff that could be used. I know that most isn't historically accurate, but would be neat. Wonder what one made from marble or another type of stone or large enough quartz crystal or similar would be like.

Another great video. I have been able to make vertical bone whistles before without any sort of plug or ramp but I do not have a reliable method yet haha. I found something interesting visually in the video- where the camera is so high def the focus is very noticeable. So because there is so much detail on you, and the machinery is out of focus at their distance it almost looks you somehow green screened the shop in the back (of course not in reality- you are interacting with machines and tools) but it sort of look likes it otherwise. It gave me a laugh a few times anyways. I have seen deer leg bones before with the hole in the tendon groove. Not every leg has it. Not sure if it is a back vs front leg thing or any leg can have it if the deer has the gene for it. Anyways, loved the video and look forward to the agave video next :)

Hey my friend, I was thinking about this video again earlier today. I do a lot of driving at work, so I've been listening to your history and ancestry videos.and too. You've mentioned boring flutes out before, but you don't really do it anymore, I understand why. But I've been curious on trying it myself. I haven't been able to find any videos of you boring them, if you even made one. Just wondering if you have or not. And if not, what would be the best way of going about it? Oh and definitely continue with the story and history videos, I really do enjoy listening and learning from them when I'm driving from job to job and my 45 min commute one way, to and from home.

Have you ever tried traditional hide glue? On any of your flutes?

Hi, I received a wooden flute from you in the mail today. Was there a mistake on my receiving this?

Hey Charlie, did you try and sneak that one in in me?☺☺. Does the deer bone chip or break if you get it too hot during drilling? I may just be a bit too hard on it with my drill press. I may need to try a Roo ( kangaroo) bone though, we don't have deer available here. There are deer around that have escaped from farms that imported them, but not that many. Thanks Charlie, another great video. Tom

I'm going to cut bamboo today,but won't be able to flame treat it right away. How many days can I wait? I heard within 48 hours,but because of the cold rainy weather it will be a few days.