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Re: Reed Knife

Author: BGBG
Date: 2016-12-03 10:24

As I said somewhere, I have no experience or knowledge of this except what I recently read online and in forum, and have no fancy tools. Just figured out a plan and went for it. I used the utility blade some but I feel it dulls quickly or isn't sharp enough except for mild scraping. I don't want to spend a lot for nice correct reed manufacturing tools because I don't plan to do this often or maybe ever again. I accidentally damaged 10 reeds that were not old or bad and wanted to restore them. Had to clip at least 6mm of tip and then cut back the bark area so vamp length was right. Then measured 3 points with caliper on a new reed and tried to approximate that by using a half round file, round side at 3 points then flattening with flat side and when proportions similar to new I sanded vamp equally until played well. Have to refine some but they do play almost as well as my others. I have 39 reeds in rotation that go back to 2 years old when I started and one was lost, several had split or chipped ends and I didn't know how to try to fix at that point. I keep them around, maybe 5 or 6, but do not try to play them. I do believe they just wear out eventually. But I would say my reeds date back to maybe Nov 2014 to 3-4 months ago. I do not play professionally or for anyone else so do not have to be perfect but I want to be as good as I can even for myself. Usually play on one reed each day until start over.

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