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Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-03-15 21:26
I have done it both ways with good results.
Now I gouge wet, because I do think the dry cane is more abrasive and dulls the blade sooner.
But I also use a planner Vs. real pre-gouger so the gouger has more work to do.
For a while I'd plane and do a basic unfinished gouge wet, and then finish it dry.
That using a double-radius gouger, and I am pretty sure it introduced more variables related to cane changing the contour of its arc while drying after a double-radius gouge. Its architecture was certainly altered. I wonder how that would work on single radius gouge? Perhaps I'll try that again.
One teacher thought that burnished the gouge for good results. And sometimes he'd place a few drop of vegetable oil on the cane right before dry gouging, trying to protect the blade.
Gouging dry does make for a slightly thicker gouge once the cane is soaked, so that can be helpful or not.
Aside from your concern about the blade, do you perceive any differences in how the reeds work dry-gouged Vs. wet? If you don't expect a positive playing impact, I'd stick with soaked cane for gouging.
-Craig
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thereedsmith |
2012-03-15 19:35 |
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Re: Gouging wet or dry new |
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Oboe Craig |
2012-03-15 21:26 |
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cjwright |
2012-03-16 05:27 |
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