Ideas please...

[Dee2]

Last Xmas I made duck calls for everyone in the family. It was a great time.

Need ideas for something this year. A family member requested I make items that "make noise".

Suggestions?

 

[bob vaughan]

Something with a mechanical music box works.

 

[Bas]

Train whistle

 

[Mike Davis]

Bas beat me to it. A 4 tube train whistle.

 

[ScottM]

Since you are a turner I imagine most of your gifts come off the lathe so how about something not turned like a keepsake box.

 

[Steve_Honeycutt]

My neighbor made wooden kazoos. He is 75 and he passed them out to his siblings and he said that had a wonderful jam session. Instructables has the plans Wooden Kazoo

 

[chris_goris]

Turkey calls?

 

[PeteM]

A Tongue Drum is one of my favorite noise makers.

Wood Magazine - Woodworking Project Paper Plan to Build Tone-of-Fun Tongue Drum

Young and old alike will enjoy making beautiful sounds with your tone-of-fun tongue drum by striking the slitted top of this six-note, easy-to-build instrument.

www.woodcraft.com

 

[tvrgeek]

And I was thinking pink elephant disruptors. If you blast one every morning standing on one foot and twirling, you won't have any pink elephants leaving deposits on our lawn.

Wood block vibes are a great idea. You can even design it so next year, you can add another block octave.

 

[LocoWoodWork]

+1 on turkey calls... you will definitely have a jam session!

 

[Dee2]

Thanks much for these ideas and those yet to come.

FWIW, remind me at the picnic, and I'll demonstrate a train whistle without the use of any other devices except those you are naturally endowed with. Look ma! No hands. No tools. Of course there was several hours of throat pain, but.... I did perform once with the Jim Beam band at the distillery, LOL!!

 

[bob vaughan]

Let us know what you settle on and post lots of pictures, too.

 

[Martin Roper]

 

[Mountain City Bill]

Mayan death whistle.

 

[zapdafish]

Duck Cookbooks

 

[Dee2]

Duck Cookbooks

 

[mkepke]

Music boxes if you like them..

..cigar box banjo kits if you don’t.

-Mark