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Re: Diameters

Author: cjwright
Date: 2008-01-24 00:46

Cane diameters might be make or break your reed if you have a very specific gouge, but I think it's more important to measure the split/pregouged/cut piece and diameter as opposed to just the tube.

Rarely do you get cane that is perfectly circular, most of the time it's more egg shaped or oval shaped. If you think about the shape of an egg, if you measure the fat end of the curve, you're going to come up with a "wider diameter" than the smaller pointy end of the egg. The same is true with cane.

I think the key to getting consistent cane is getting pieces that the curve is a perfectly symmetric curve (not one side of an egg shape, but either the top or the bottom), and then measuring that piece. In fact, I never measure my tubes, just my pregouged pieces because with cane that is supposeably "10-10.5" I'll get some pieces that measure a 9.0, some that measure a 12.0. (I save the 12.0 pieces for d'amore cane!)

Cooper

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