Author: claire70
Date: 2008-12-29 20:33
Some of you may remember me asking novice reed-maker questions before in the last few months... So I'm back to hassle you again. I've made several batches of reeds now; I'm buying my cane ready gouged and shaped. But I seem to keep hitting the same problem: I scrape it to a stage where I can just about play on it, and I like the tone, but it's just a bit too hard to be comfortable. Then I scrape it a tiny bit more, and it goes 'over', so it's then quacky, not a nice tone any more and a bit 'flabby' to play on. Sometime, paradoxically, it goes quacky at the same time as being too resistant and hard work as well!
I'm aiming for a European more-or-less U scrape. If I hold the reed up to the light I can see I'm getting quite a defined spine and heart, so I don't think I'm taking too much off there; when I'm trying to soften it up I'm taking cane mostly from the sides.
Can anyone give me some pointers as to what I'm doing wrong?
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