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 Re: Pre-tying question
Author: Loree BF51 
Date:   2014-04-15 01:14

I totally agree with Chris P.. If there isn't a layer of bark present at each end of the cane, then that bark can't crack there, because it isn't there anymore!. I know I'm being redundant by repeating myself, but that is how I sew it or in this case, don't see it. Unfortunately, at the point where the bevel ends (towards the tip end) and there is bark there, then it can crack, like one did for me last week, only one out of four though. Even though I saw it, I continued to complete the tieing and then cut the bark off on the crack, right above the thread. If I don't get away with it, then soon enough, I will notice that the reed tends to crow high and play low. Fortunately, that hardly ever happens to me. Most of the time you can't see the crack, unless you have a very strong light.
I find that if you soak in very hot water (the hot(t?)est you can get out of the tap) , the cane is more flexible and less prone to cracking while tieing. Even though I bevel, I still get a gap sometimes in the top threading, at the crossover, as it tends to slide down the hill, so Chris's advice is good to coat the thread, intil it, at least clears the cane. Actually, when I attach the thread to the I-hook, I coat it with bees-wax, beyond where it will be cut off, and then I run my fingers back and forth on it, which causes the wax to melt into the thread. Even with hot water, I would expect un-beveled cane to be cracking almost, all the time. But then, the now late, Mr Still, used to say that the oboe is just one, long series of paradoxes, or something like that. I remember that once, he had me show four, visiting oboe students, how to tie reeds, so I couldn't have been too far off! Regards, Loree DX something-something is on its way to me - yippee!

R. Still former student

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