The mouthpiece consists of stabilized, twice dyed box elder burl, between layers of Amboyna burl, and capped with radiata.

The fetish block is cut from radiata, bonded to an Oklahoma red cedar base. Overlays to the bird include abalone, systemically dyed maple, mappa burl, addl. systemically dyed maple, and African ebony. Systemic dying of the maple was achieved by feeding the tree harmless colored water during various growth cycles, prior to harvest.

Inlay begins at the mouthpiece to include a 5x8mm dome cut Australian lightning ridge boulder opal, flanked by two 4.2mm dome cut old Tibetan turquoise cabs. A small void in the amboyna burl was filled with 22k gold, as turquoise would have been visually distracting. The compression chamber is accented with 22mm disks of box elder burl, themselves accented with crushed turquoise from Arizona’s famed Sleeping Beauty mine, as well as crushed Ethiopian jasper. The disks have been inset with 4.2mm Australian black opal doublets as well. Moving forward, accent to the sound chamber includes an addl. black opal doublet, as well as a beautiful 11x15mm African Pietersite. The slightly dished or cupped finger holes are accented with four 4mm abalone cabs as well as an 8mm quartz capped abalone cab. Lastly, the fetish includes a one carat 6mm aurora azotic topaz set to the crown of the bird, as well as 2.3mm faceted African black diamonds, set as eyes.

The flute was tuned at 72.5 degrees F, with a humidity factor of 46%.

In order to create an unobstructed surface for inlay, the fetish ties run through the flute, rather than around it. It is not necessary to remove them entirely from the flute for drying purposes. The fetish is open ended allowing the player to simply loosen the ties and slip the fetish out from under the ties.

Included in the purchase is a protective fleece bag as well as a hardshell travel case from Flutecase.com.