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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 2007/02

From: "Sameer Al-Abdullah" <simsim29@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Scraping with nicks
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:00:53 -0500

I had no idea we could do that to the tip with the sand paper. I shall
give it a shot for sure. I always wondered why most of the reeds i
used to buy look so smoothed out!

"One needs only the VERY lightest touch for tips "
After scraping the bark off the tip and as I get it thinner and
thinner I noticed that it gets harder removing equal amounts of fibers
of it. That's where my frustration comes from since I find myself
having to either press more with the knife rather than itching or go
back to the kitchen and resharpen the knife!! It also gets pretty
harder when I try to define the tip by scraping in angles to create
the blend. Scraping upward in a straight line towards the tip of the
tip thru the channels is somehow easy but then I can't get the somehow
"half circle" definition of the blend!

Scraping the tip when it's dry does the job but then it's too risky as
I did manage to crack the tip a few times.

Edward, I have the medium Landwell. AND I just got Daryl Caswell book
on sharpening the Landwell knives. I followed the instructions and I
must say that it DOES get the knife sharp. BUT and this is the strange
part, i'd lose the burr quickly as if i'm using a soft knife!

Why can't some genius invent a knife that is 100% sharp and stays
sharp all the time! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr..........i've reached a point
where I'm sharpening my knife and scraping reeds in my dreams!!!! No
wonder my shoulder aches in the morning!!

Cheers

Sam

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