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Re: Tenon cork replacement

Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-06-24 10:21

Sheet cork is rarely ever cross grain, so you're unlikely to get a large sheet of cork that's cross grain. You can get cross grain cork for decorative use (slicing a wine cork will give you this), but generally if you get a piece of sheet cork it's most likely to have been sawn with the grain (with the pores running perpendicular to the surface).

On a piece of sheet cork, there's no 'right' or 'wrong' way of cutting a strip for a tenon cork. For short strips, cut it from along the short edge and on large instruments (bass clarinets, bassoons, etc.) cut the strip from along the long edge.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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