BilletSpin Titanium Whistle Review

The BilletSpin Titanium Whistle has an incredible flame and polished finish, and serves as a loud safety whistle! Read on for more photos.

Official Specs

Here’s a link to the BilletSpin Titanium Whistle product page.

Short Review

This whistle is a great entry into the world of EDC-type whistles. Or if you’re a seasoned veteran whistle carrier, then there are some special-metal options you likely won’t see elsewhere.

Long Review

Package

The whistle ships in a bubble wrap pouch.

Look

The copy you see here is a stainless steel flamed titanium pin mouthpiece ( $45), with a low pitch polished and flamed titanium body ($70). Both parts are required, and they are selected separately on the site. So the price of the whistle as seen is $115 plus shipping.

There are other options, though. There’s a plain stainless mouthpiece (all mouthpieces are stainless). There are all manner of special metal bodies, too. Stainless, titanium, timascus, mokume, copper, brass… And many finishes (bead blast, polished, flamed, etc).

A small, metallic, cylindrical object with a gradient color from purple to blue and silver, rests on a weathered wooden surface outdoors.

A small metallic object with a cylindrical shape and a gradient blue and silver finish lying on a wooden surface. The object has a rounded end and a narrow, silver tip.

A small metallic object with a cylindrical shape and a gradient blue and brown finish lies on a weathered wooden surface. The item appears to have a keyring hole on one end and a metallic connector on the other.

A small, metallic, cylindrical object with blue, purple, and silver sections rests on a wooden surface. The background is out of focus.

Close-up of a metallic cylindrical object with a blue tip, viewed from the front and resting on a wooden surface. Background is blurred.

Close-up of the base of a bullet lying on its side, with a metallic casing and a central blue primer, photographed on a blurred wooden surface.

The pieces do come apart, of course, as seen below.

In fact, this is a bit of a defining characteristic of the Billetspin whistle – the threads seen above will always be a feature of the whistles, so no matter how many revisions the whistle sees in development, old bodies will always mate with new mouthpieces and vice versa.

Maintenance / Disassembly

There’s not so much maintenance to be done here. Just keep the item clean and free of debris, and it should work well for a long time. Disassembly is easy; just unscrew the two parts. The o-ring is important to the sound of the whistle, so it would be prudent to keep that clean, too.

Sound

I don’t have a bunch of awesome audio equipment, but just to give you some idea of the sound, here are a couple of videos. There’s a bit of a start-up to getting sound out of the whistle – ie blow hard for best result. Billetspin tested these whistles (low and high pitch) at around 120 decibels at 6 feet. Whatever that means to you, what you can take from it is that these are quite loud.

Billetspin has stated that while there are two tones, it wasn’t a goal to have two specific notes being hit. They suggested that future updates might see that (ie, you might be able to get C or D or E or whatever, in the future.)

Retention

There’s a loop on the end of this whistle to allow easy connection of a split ring or lanyard.

Otherwise, the body is fairly slick. If you need something with more grip, consider a blasted mokume version

Size

I measure my copy at 13.72mm in diameter (thickest point), and 53.8mm in length. I believe the high pitch and low pitch bodies are the same sizes (at least very close).

A two dollar bill lies flat on a weathered wooden surface with a small pen placed horizontally across the top left side of the bill.

A vape cartridge filled with liquid is placed vertically on top of a two-dollar bill, which rests on a weathered wooden surface.

Conclusion

What I Like

Tons of metal options! (Even matching some of their tops).
Low and high pitch bodies
Future compatibility

What I Don’t Like

A titanium mouthpiece would be a good bet for being safe to use in the mouth, even if other metals might not be.

Notes

This whistle was provided by BilletSpin for review. I was not paid to write this review.
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