Trouble with flute guts

[LCL Game Calls]

i got the flute guts from webfoot and am having trouble setting them up. i'm so used to short reeds and havent worked much with flutes. clearly, setting them up like i do the short reeds, is not working for me 
how do you set your flute guts with the alignment and such? i cant get nothin but raspy scratchy sounds out of it.

Thanks!
Cody

[Jon @ JRwoods]

Wish I could help.  I picked up my big river flute for the first time in ten years.  I put that call away tuned and mow I'm not sure how to blow it.
Know anybody that's good on a flute?  Maybe they could lend a hand.

[LCL Game Calls]

most people say they cant blow a short reed, only a flute. well Sof a B now i got good at the short reeds and cant do a dang flute to save my life   

[Honk1493]

Cody with a 3" barrel bored 3/4" and a 6" insert bored 5/8" I set the wedge at the bottom line on the tone board and had to have the wedge down to about
1/8" above the insert. Hope this helps out.  Mark

[LCL Game Calls]

that is helpful Mark, ill give that a try. so are you leaving your insert bored 5/8 clean through with no step? thanks again for the help

[Honk1493]

Yes I bore straight through 5/8. Was helping a guy the other night he tried to glodo the barrel we could never get the call to crack like it should his dimensions were the same except the glodo on the barrel we were using Wades guts and another set that he had but both sets would work in my call Ok. I am no expert on this it is just my experience
with the 4 or 5 flutes that I have made. Hope this helps out.   Mark

[gooseforsupper]

I have found that a shorter barrel that is bored 3/4 inch works best for me.  I mean short, where the guts come up to about an inch from end.  You might want to bore a long practice barrel, then take it to the chop saw and start by cutting off 1/8 inch at a time, then trying it, then cutting more and so on, until you get the sound you are looking for...

It might work, it might not, but it's interesting to see what the barrel length does to the sound of the call..

Good luck! 

[Prairie Game Calls]

Goose is right the barrel length has allot to do with the tune-ability  of the flute. If it is too short it won't work with the flute guts worth a darn!

Larry