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 Barrel design
Author: Tony F 
Date:   2016-04-21 03:29

Some years ago I looked at my clarinet barrel and thought "What can be so difficult about this? It's just basic wood-turning 101".

Since then I've produced about 3 barrels that actually worked and quite a lot of decorative firewood. My successes have been achieved by luck and slavishly copying one that works with no real understanding of why it works.

I've experimented along the way with reverse taper, parallel bore, polycylindrical bore with some success and I'm gradually coming to an understanding of how much I don't know.

Do you know of any text which is a distillation of the barrel makers art, or did other barrel makers travel the same road as me?

My failures were not entirely wasted, I pass them on the a friend who is a custom knife maker and he uses them as knife handle scales.

Tony F.
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