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 reed making question
Author: claire70 
Date:   2011-04-05 20:07

I'm a fairly newbie reed maker (made maybe 30-40 now), and want to know whether I'm doing something wrong when I'm making a reed, or if this happens to everyone. Namely: I scrape the tip first, but as I do so I end up with a kind of 'line' / wall where the tip meets the unscraped bit, where I'm initially putting my knife down to scrape the tip. Hard to describe so I'm hoping someone will know what I mean! (It's too subtle too come out well on a photo although I'll keep working on that...)

As I continue to work on the main part of the reed, this funny line gets scraped away again, but I'm wondering if it should be there in the first place, or what is causing it? I'm trying to copy Ke Xun Ge's reeds, and he has a clear and definite demarcation between tip and not-tip that I want to emulate. But I can't figure out how he does it so beautifully.

Does this ring ANY bells with anyone???!!

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