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 beginner reed maker in despair!
Author: claire70 
Date:   2008-07-30 19:59

Arrrrggghhhhh.... I have just almost thrown my reed-making bag (with contents) across the room and burst into tears of frustration....

My teacher has set me the task of tying on three reeds for my next lesson (a week on friday). I had done some for the last lesson (with difficulty) but she told me off that the thread wasn't tight enough and I needed to keep more tension as I tie. But I'm darned if I can get the bl**dy sides to close up. This was a problem before but seems doubly so now I'm trying to increase the tension.

I know in theory that I'm supposed to jiggle the cane around on the staple - but if I jiggle it so it closes up on one side, it just opens up more on the other side instead. And everytime I jiggle, I lose the tension on the thread that's wound already.

Help?!???!

(And as for doing the knot at the end... But let's deal with one thing at a time.)
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