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Re: Erick Brand Measurement Kit

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-02-10 06:33

Not an actual, original Erick Brand kit, but both Theo Wanne and Lomax market kits.

You can also buy the components individually - you need a tip gauge for the tip opening and a glass gauge with graduated markings and a set of flat feeler gauges to measure the curve. If you want your length measurements to compare to ones given by commercial mouthpiece companies, the thinnest feeler should be .0015 inch.

IMO, a good, accurate taper gauge for tip measurements is more reliable than the much more expensive dial gauges that account for a lot of the cost of the kits. I find that the dial gauges are too fussy about exactly how I line the mouthpiece up on the table and my result is too variable.

Karl

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