Making a Wind Chime

Welcome to the Bearded Woodworker. In This video, I show you how I made a Wind Chime from galvanized steel bought at the local hardware store. The steel is 1 1/2 fencing post and can be purchased from $6-9 per 6 foot poles. You could use all sorts of different pipes to make a wind chime, but I chose the galvanized steel as it's my 11th year anniversary married to my beautiful bride and the traditional girt is steel,

My micro phone was turned off on some portions of the build and that's why some instructions I had videoed, didn't make it into the final cut. Here is the website I used to find location of the holes, length of the pipes and even what tones I wanted to use.

I chose to go with the Pentatonic C9 chord, as I read it was one of the best sounds.

Here are the lengths and hole locations:

C note - 40 7/16" , hole placement 9+
E note - 36" , hole placement 8+
G note - 33" , hole placement 7 3/8
Bb note - 29 7/16" , hole placement 6 1/2+
D note - 27" , hole placement 6+

Here is the link I used to make a paper pentagon from a square piece of paper.

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[gerribearden]

It’s a beautiful wind chime, your wife will love it. Congratulations on 11 years of marriage plus many more.

[jackman]

my wife of 45 yrs loved wind chimes we had maybe 30 different kind an i still do today in honor of her we called it music of the wind love them

[JGmf]

Beautiful Sound! I'm impressed and honestly it exceeds my expectations in terms material sound quality, I used to think aluminum was the exact sound to achieve that quality, now with this project of yours It gives me hope I could go with the galvanized steel pipe and still getting the desired results, will do this project soon, thank you very much Sr.

[tlrmdyou]

"This is so much harder than it looks!!" I took some old manure spreader pipe line that was 3 and half inch around, trying to make farm memorabilia, but as far as where to drill the hole and how far down to hang them and then the longer and placing LOVED YOUR SOUND!!!!

[gratefulgato]

Thank you for sharing the link to the website explaining the different notes and types of metal and lengths. Wow that is so helpful,

[dclaet]

Beautiful sound on those chimes. Thanks so much for teaching us how.

[Granddad]

Congratulations to you and the wife on 11 years. Thanks for the video.

[nicolekollman]

This was excellent..the best do it yourself BIG WIND chime I have been able to find on the tube...really easy and practical and a beautiful tone..thanks from Mexico..saw one that size here for 400 dollars..imagine!!!!

[gregniederhaus]

The specific lengths and the distance of 22.4% individual pipe length for each hang hole make this video the magic charm for me. Mine's going under a bird house, but the sound has been my trouble spot. Thanks for the video!

[achillelalonde]

Thank you so very much for sharing your love with your wife.
The proof’s in the harmony of your gift of celebration 🙏

[racabon]

Bearded woodworker your the man! I’m making a wind chime based off your video with some old fence posts hopefully it turns out as wonderful as yours

[charlotted]

Just found heart is as massive as your Awesome and Happy Anniversary....What a sweet take the time to make her gift.

[ingaliang]

it's so beautiful wind chimes and
beautiful harmony, Thank for you shared ~

[antonypalmer]

Thanks for keeping in the mistakes as well. Loved watching it.

[zoponex]

these are the most beautiful sounding wind chimes i have ever heard!!! better than the $500 ones after which i have been lusting. just gorgeous and amazing.

[andyvoss]

Watching this video made this idea a little bit more attainable! Can't wait to try this out.

[spidertickles]

2 yrs later and this vid is still spreading knowledge. Thanks for the link to the math end of this project. "No mistakes, just happy accidents" Thankyou, subbed, and hopefully she likes it🤞🤣🤷‍♂️

[Redberryfarm]

Yours looks quite doable for reasonable cost ( ie: honey-do please... ) and sounds fantastic. Well done. (Lee's site and videos are a bit overwhelming and technical for me, though a great resource for many things like templates and such.) Now to hunt down some tubing, fencing, or even shower curtain rods to cut into that amazingly soothing Pentatonic C9 chord sound. Thank you!

[mlgauss]

I was looking for a DIY windchime video when I came across yours. By far, the easiest for ME to understand! LOL! Some out here are just way too technical! This is the exact size and sound I've been looking for! I needed to do a DIY because to buy one of those, in that size, is outrageous! I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty! 😉 My husband has a workshop, he works, I'm retired...soooo😏😉 Thanks for sharing, and I'm sure your wife loved it! ❤

[hermievillaluz]

So very nice sounds and completely beautiful...