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 Re: Hand shaping cane and the knife to do it
Author: RobinDesHautbois 
Date:   2012-07-19 10:41

I would really not use expensive reed knives for shaping: you could wreck both the shaper and the knife!!! Wrecking the knife means heart-ache after heartache when making reeds, wrecking the shape means you bought it absoloutely for nothing!

What many people use are those disposable window scrapers that look like razor blades. What I do is use a heavy-duty retractable box-cutter: the blades are as sharp as any razor and they break-off in sections. The shaper will wreck the blade: just break off a section! The blade won't wreck the shaper.

http://robindeshautbois.blogspot.ca/2011/04/oboe-reed-shaping-and-fibro-fog.html
The above shows my 2-cents on different shapers.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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