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Re: Frying eggs

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-06-05 02:40

Ken Lagace wrote:

> Simple question, difficult to answer, so I just throw this out.
> How many gauges do you use? The old timers I think had four. I
> have increased over the years to 15.

I use the 5 that came with my Erik Brand kit 50 years ago and I have four tip gauges - two tapers and two dials, one of which came with the Brand kit. I know that there are refacers who use many more feelers than that - at least a couple of them who frequent this list. And I guess it's not much of an investment to use more - in fact I have a full set of automotive feelers from Pep Boys that I bought when I had to replace one of my original feelers that got lost, so I could probably start using as many of the set as will fit within the curve - pretty much any feeler less than .032". It's very likely that there will be small differences when the curve is measured so minutely. But are such small aberrations enough to cause this, or is the noise source more likely to found in the blank itself - particularly, I would theorize, in the baffle height or shape?

I should say, if I didn't before, that the mouthpieces in question, both the quiet and the noisy ones, are made by highly reputable mouthpiece craftsmen - they aren't Yamaha 4Cs or Goldentones, nor are they assembly line products. The blanks are produced in batches, of course, for each craftsman.

I will take your lead, though, and break out some more of the feelers in the automotive set and see what I find.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Karl

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