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Re: Diagnosing Mouthpiece Asymmetry?

Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2004-12-11 18:03

No, I wasn't worried about "warped", but thanks. No "rocking" at all.

But your description of "asymmetric" now has me puzzled.

I thought it related to the degree of the curvature as you "travel" down the rails away from the flat table, toward the end. If one side curves away more than the other - which is what the "water-drop" test will show - that was "asymmetric" - more open at the tip on the side with the greater curvature.

But your description seems to imply that an asymetric m-p would have a _longer_ rail on one side than the other such that an imaginary line drawn across the end of the m-p (at the corners of the open area, the "wind-cut", say) would not be perpendicular to the central axis of the piece.

Perhaps this is all the same thing said in a different manner.

BTW, what are the units of your measurements?

JDS

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