Doublereed Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/10

From: "Lawrence Rhodes" <primobassoon@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] Gouging bassoon cane. 23 to 35mm
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:46:11 -0400

There is a lot of bassoon cane that many consider too big or too small for
bassoon or contrabassoon. I got to thinking that the waste is incredible.
Getting just that perfect size is many bassoonists goal. To be honest the
radius of the cutter is very important here. It determines how the can will
fit the profiler. But just as important is the depth of cut. I was
thinking that the square trough I have cut in my gouger ( I use a push
through type gouger) will center smaller diameter pieces of cane and make
them useful. They however will be a little eliptical. My thought is if the
trough was not a round but an adjustable square. The cane only touches two
places and slides along it.. For large pieces you would widen the two
sides. The cane would drop down into the square trough and be cut without
gouging out the middle. This would make the gouger accept cane off by a a
mm or two & just change the reed from having hard sides to neutral to soft
sides depending on the diameter. From my experiments simple adjustment of
the wires will compensate for the different cane hardness. Has anyone
developed a gouger that can sucessfully gouge different diameters of cane
that is quickly adjustable? Lawrence Rhodes.......

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