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Re: Reed Geek?

Author: ReedGeek
Date: 2008-04-15 16:11

There are no serrated edges on the tool.

The long edges are very, very straight. The flat sides are precision ground an order of magnitude (or two) flatter than files. The other blades are hand-ground to precise tolerances for specific uses (see www.reedgeek.com).

There are a couple of issues with sandpaper:

1) flatness of the supporting surface - this can be overcome by using a precision surface block underneath

2) sandpaper loads up very fast - there's no way around this besides not using the surface twice

Using sandpaper on a surface block, with a new area for every stroke is exactly the way mouthpiece refacers work on mouthpiece tables.

Incidentally, the VanDoren plate glass tool has problem 2 as well.

With abrasives, it's very hard to do more than make the bottom of the reed _smooth_ . Flat is another thing altogether.

We'll do a more complete discussion of this on our web site. We'll post when it's ready.

Also, one or more of my colleagues may chime in here.

Thanks for posting.

Tom Briggs

www.ReedGeek.com

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