The Clarinet BBoard

The Clarinet BBoard The C4 standard

New Topic | Go to Top | Go to Topic | Search | Help/Rules | Smileys/Notes | Log In

Previous Message | Next Message

Re: Old BD5 and new BD5?

Author: JTJC
Date: 2020-10-27 23:42

I’m not sure the lines are to emulate file marks. The file marks I’ve seen on mouthpieces are never as regular or deep. If you’re moving a cutting tip on a baffle I suppose you have a basic choice of lateral or longitudinal. Somehow I don’t think lateral would aid airflow. However, in theory, i suppose a CNC cutting head could go over the surface in any way the programmer wanted. I expect it was an aesthetic choice to have line along the baffle. After all, they could make the inside as smooth as the outside if they wanted to. The fact a couple of CNC makers have done it that way might suggest it’s the best way. I’m sure they’ve experimented.

On the subject of lines on mouthpieces and CNC, I noticed on the lay of the Behn Prescotts there’s the faint shadow image of the radial lines you get on the lays of Vandoren’s (or used to!). It’s not a complete pattern, which is odd. It’s almost as if a mouthpiece was 3D scanned into a CAD program and the ghost of those lines remained in the design through to CNC milling. They must have left the lines there intentionally so maybe there’s a purpose to it.

Reply To Message | Avail. Forums | Flat View

Newer Topic | Older Topic

Topics