Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-07-01 16:45
I'm just curious as to people's general experience in terms of opening and stability (with the infamous Loree notes) versus thinning towards the side.
I've never actually seen/handled any other gougers than my own, so I'm guessing its a single radius machine.... anyway, the bed is. I was hand-made for a Toronto oboist (Bermann, Baumann??) in the 1950s.
As for the blade, I shape it myself, eye-balling it with semi-circle radius gages.... and I do that on the flat of the blade, so at a 45-deg. angle with the bed. This means the trigonometry is getting pretty darned complex to measure and describe.
All in all, I get about 0.05mm difference between the center and the edge (which gets shaved off when shaping, even at the tip). I've always gotten good, stable and predictable reeds with it.
Thanks
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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