Klarinet Archive - Posting 000599.txt from 2006/03

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Conductor batons
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:01:34 -0500

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:12:12 -0500, Fred Jacobowitz
<fbjacobo@-----.net> wrote:

>Get colored Lucite rods and turn them down on a lathe. Or get hardwood
>dowels from the hardware store and again, lathe them down. Then you'll
>have to paint them white or some such
>

Lucite is somewhat brittle and doesn't react well to fatigue. I would
have guessed that it was unsuitable for a baton, and would have a
tendency to shatter when whacked against a podium, as batons sometimes are.

Fiberglass, as in the fishing rods he mentioned, is probably the
near-optimum material.

I would have guessed that many hardwoods would be too delicate when
lathed that thin, but my friend Google tells me that birch and maple are
both commonly used in craftsman-quality batons.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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