Make an ocarina out of stock sheet wood

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In this instructable you will learn how to make a wood ocarina out of 1/8" sheet stock.
I have tried to make this the more comprehensive than my last 2 instructable's (carve and ocarina and PVC ocarina).
The reason is that using sheet wood you can make just about any size ocarina you want.
When making an ocarina in this fashion you can use this as a guide to make one using different dimensions.

materials list:
1/8" hard wood all pieces (I'm using cherry)
(1) 1 1/2" X 3 5/8" (top)
(1) 1 1/2" X 3 1/8" (bottom)
(1) 1 1/2" X 3/4" (front)
(2) 3 1/8" X 3/4" (sides)
(2) 1 1/4" X 3/4" (back + tuning)
(1) 1/2" X 1 1/2" (bottom airway)
medium CA (crazy glue)

Tools list:
1/2" chisel
steel ruler
small chisel
small skew chisel
100 & 220 sand paper
a unibit or various drill bits
a pencil
a drill
various small files

optional:
wood stain
polyurethane


U tube sound sample link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSjJhQeexv8

Step 1 Dry fit

Dry fit all your pieces together first before gluing.
Make sure it's fits, sand if necessary.

Comments

[coppertop8]

Very awesome. You could a two more holes easily and then it could play an octave plus two notes higher.Making one now will tell you how it turns out.

[ilpug]

Kind of a bummer you didn't win anything for this, it's awesome! i Will make this at some point, it is just to awesome to pass up!

[zeldafan2014]

Cool design. Im trying to make this. I do have one question: What did you use to cut the wood?

[10$man]

That design on your ocarina, i think its a tree branch? anyways it looks great! what did you use to make it? dremel (i hope so, i want to make that design to XD)?

[Omegablood]

Thanks 10$man.
Yea it's a tree bush type thing. The top one I made with a V carving tool and the side one was made with a wood burner, the kind that look like soldering irons.
Unfortunately I didn't even make one of the finalist but thanks for the well wishes. :)

[10$man]

I hope you win!, Your Ocarina tutorials are the best i have ever seen! tell us if you win!

(once you get on your way with that buisness i might think about buying a ocarina or 2 :) )

[Omegablood]

Thanks! Here is the sound sample.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSjJhQeexv8

[crossfire]

Very cool! But can we hear the sound aswell as the other ones?