Doublereed Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2007/02

From: Michael Benthin <benthin@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Wooden Plaques - was: Scraping with nicks
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 23:48:37 -0500

I use an ebonite tapered plaque for reed work up to the final tip
thinning; then I switch to a guitar pick (thinnest sold) as this allows
for better (even) thinning when the tip is flat as opposed to trying to
scrape on a curve, where one can risk thinning it too much in any one
area. For cheapskates, one can make these from the flat breadbag sealers.

Keith Sklower wrote:
> I'ld like to mention an alternative to wooden plaques, as demonstrated
> to me by Roger Wiemeyer, now English Hornist with the Nashville syphony.
>
> He used to get $.50 plastic guitar picks, which he cut up into a couple or 3
> oboe-plaque-size pieces with a pair of garden shears, and then sanded down
> the edges.
>

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