It's wood that has been worked so I don't know what else you want to call it lol

Who wouldn't it count? It might not be as fancy as building screwless furniture, but it's still woodworking.

well this may surprise you, but cutting a shape out of wood is working the wood

@@landingbirdwoodworking Dont listen to the haters man. Keep making cool stuff

wow for the real prehistoric experience we even have a genuine cro-magnon here to give us his opinion on the video lmao

That all sounds wonderful! Glad you enjoyed the video

From a time before the television became the primary babysitter, and teacher...

dude that sounds awesome

Vivian, Would you teach us some of those things? For me the woodworking and toys would fun. The food is also good.

Grandma made me a buzz button too. I had forgotten about it. Thanks for the wonderful memory.

So why can't I find bullroarer orchestras online? This should be just the sort of thing avant-garde musicians are playing with.

@@pattheplanter probably because it's the kind of thing that avant-garde musicians wouldn't have played with as a kid; it tends to be a "poor kid" type of toy since it's so simply constructed..

I tried looking it up and got nothing so here I am, what does scalloped/Ovid edges mean?

@@jimbob9963 Scallop shells have wavy edges. I assume ovoid rather than ovid, as ovoid is egg-shaped and Ovid was a poet.

Amerindian or Asian Indian?

@@DakotakoPretty obvious which one.

@@Jack_ArborIs it? Bullroarers are made all over the world. And, well, thunder exists all over the world.

Cool story. (Not sarcasm)

I'm going to assume american based off of OPs channel@@Ian-nl9yd

Came looking for this comment 🤘🏻

Needs garlic

Great! Thanks for the direction and encouragement. I’ll be making my first in 2024 when I was 51(mirroring)!

Airfoil shape? Not really necessary. A more or less flat shape will always have a center of pressure at roughly 1/4 of the width from the leading edge, while the center of mass, and thus the line of the string, is at 1/2. Just like a strip of paper when dropped will always spin, a narrow strip of wood tied to a string always will. It's more pleasing to make a nice shape, though.

This is mean and hilarious at the same time. Those poor kids, but now they have a story to tell 😂

I hear that people think that these sounds are bigfoot or other cryptids, now I know to just tell them its you with a couple of bull roarers!

Mean and insensitive. Kids have too much crap to work through. You’re associating fear with the outdoors for them, when they should be learning the peacefulness of it to help them through the fear.

​@@boa1793 Good, the outdoors should be treated with fear and respect. Especially the mountains and the forest. There's a reason we tell kids scary stories about monsters in the woods. There's bears, wolves, Coyotes, deer, moose, ticks, etc. that can easily kill a child. Not to mention the possibility of starvation, dehydration or breaking a leg. Sure, walking through a national park is not going to be a big deal, but if you live near a real forest, that's a real threat.

@@boa1793 Lol. It was 55 years ago, when kids weren't such a bunch of sissies. Get over it, they did.

Thank you!

they've been used in a lot of aboriginal societies. In some they were communication over long distances, in others they were more of a religious tool, to summon the attention of the spirits...

Ah yes! I knew i have seen it before somewhere!

My eldest nephew asked what I was whittling one time. I told him " Bullroarer.". He looked at me and asked " What's it do?". I responded, " It's an aboriginal device that summons people and spirits, so, think of it like the original cell phone only it works for multiple planes of existance.". He just nodded and said, " Cool." Then watched me make it.

Wally: that is the mating call of the Jara-Jara bird, very large, meat eater, don’t worry it won’t come near the fire….

And a few Tomboy girls.

That era? There's no reason anyone should go out of the house without proper clothing and footwear for likely inclement weather, a bit of cordage, a flashlight (it's bright enough when it has recoil), a lighter, a tool for cutting, basic equipment and supplies to deal with major traumatic injury and a paper map of the area.

@@matthewellisor5835This is exactly me when I actually remember to pack in advance. I’m always wearing a jacket, and I never wear a jacket with less than 5 pockets.

Wall of text, only tangentially on topic. @@firstletterofthealphabet7308 And if carrying a jacket is a bit too much trouble for where I'm going, I should be packing a good bit more. Even 5-8lbs (~2250g-3650g) in a small backpack, messenger bag or something like it can save your life or the life of someone else, be they injured themselves (I've been the first on-scene at more than a few motor vehicle wrecks with injuries) or just keeping people from putting themselves at risk to try to find or help you. It would likely shock most people to learn how many in search & rescue are injured or lose life looking for someone who was "just out for an afternoon stroll" on a marked trail in a park or forest (I don't even mean hiking up a mountain) but managed to get mixed-up as to direction and hadn't been prepared enough to avoid the need or at least make it no hurry to rescuers because they were warm and dry and would be fine if the hour or two stroll turned into unscheduled overnight camping. For those who take responsibility for keeping safe and bothered reading my ramblings this far, thank you! Any who haven't considered it before, I hope this gives you something to think on and that it is read as the encouragement I intended.

@@matthewellisor5835jesus I just wanna go down the block to the store

Neat. I wondered if the cable needed to twist or not.

I thought it was the mating call of the Jarra Jarra bird 🤣🤣

I'll have to give that a try!

That sounds like something worth trying.

I have heard of something similar made with a section of hollow log with a piece of rawhide stretched over one end. Would be used at chivarees, or just to drive someone crazy.

@@debluetailflyWas there a name for it?

@@johngayder9249wash tub bass

I learned how to make one from a hunter. He claimed to use it to call Moose. I recommend a nylon boot lace for ease of use and performance. Bigger the can the better.

Sounds like fun! I wish I had known how to make one when I was younger.

Mine was an old wood-handled jump rope. Kept smacking myself with it and got fed up after a while. It was fun while it lasted, I imagine that the adults could hear the sound so they didn't ask about all my weird bruises..

That crossed my mind as I was making them. Now I know I have to try it out. Thanks!

My granny had a button box and there were giant coat buttons and we would use those

Thanks! You don't see it when you're actually using it, but it's nice to make a beautiful object anyway.

Seems fitting for a hobbit to take the name of something that looks quiet and unassuming but is just the opposite

True in my experience. Stick with braded not twisted line.

Thanks for watching!

😂

A good multi-use tool. 😉

Thanks!

Neat! I don't have any bone on hand to test out so I'll stick with wood 😁

Definitely a good idea to do some shoulder stretches beforehand!

Thanks!

Thank you so much!

Yes, very easy to shred your fingers!

There have been many comments asking about specific shapes - I may have to make a video that is just comparing tons of different designs and variables. It would be cool to measure loudness as well.

oh yhea mine is purple heart 12'' x 3 1/2'' 3/8'' thick

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to try with leather or artificial sinew. It's fascinating how seemingly tiny factors affect the sound, considering it's just a piece of wood

This could be interesting. If the cordage was already twisted in one direction, swinging it in the direction that would exacerbate that twist would definitely make it make it rotate, and thereby make sound, more quickly. I don't know what the effect in the overall sound would be if it was spun for a longer period of time, but it would make it spin up faster and probably make the sound more consistent, or at least make the frequency of the louder sound faster. Paracord if fairly neutral by design, so it might not be that big of a difference once it's spun up, but it's worth a comparison at least

​@@landingbirdwoodworking my thoughts are this would make higher pitch sounds of the edges are narrower. Would love to see a saw edged one and a wasp waisted one. Probably the deepest sound would be a lightly rounded edges on a circle.

Thanks! I've never actually seen one, only the stumps they leave behind.

A big knife or small hatchet to carve it, and the drill is made similar to an primitive arrow (sharp pointy rock on the end), and hole drilled using the same hand-drill method used to start fires.

@@pauljs75You got me. Definately worth looking into. 😎

Evidently hobbits knew about these too!

I haven't made any with notches yet, but it must affect the sound in some way. Just tapering the edges versus leaving them square makes a noticeable difference, so notches would probably have an effect too.

Thanks!

Haha that's the one!

They can get pretty loud and carry a long ways. Size, shape, cord length, and swinging technique all affect the sound and volume. The ones in the video are maybe around the same level as an average shout.

@@landingbirdwoodworking thank you

Better Mick than Irwin Dundee

The twisting is where the sound comes from - it causes the wood to spin.

I made one years ago with a large snap swivel, worked fine .

I can't say I know all the physics behind bullroarers and how exactly they work, but I believe the twisting and untwisting that happens as you whirl it is what causes the wood to spin and make sound. So it might be difficult or impossible to get a sound out of it if it had a swivel.

You do not want it to swivel. That's why it works. The rope need to twist

Yep, it needs to twist, that's why it takes a sec to get warmed up

Now that's a good idea. I might have to try it

I've seen a similar idea to what you're saying, from what I gather it was just a hole with sharp edges, this is spinning so I would try a circle with sharp edges and a flat (or fine wire) piece of material across the center.