Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2008-10-15 20:53
I'll address the comfort with the reed in your left hand question, since I had trouble with this too.
Instead of doing what my teacher does and hold the reed in one position while changing the position of my scraping arm for the other side of the reed, I hold the knife position constant and change how I hold the reed in my reed-holding hand.
For one side of the reed, the mandrel handle is down in my palm, and for the other side of the reed, the mandrel handel is between my thumb and forefinger, very similar to how I hold a pencil.
For me, this was easier to learn than changing the angle of my scraping arm and having to learn two ways of scraping.
As usual, YMMV.
EBH
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