Author: huboboe
Date: 2013-02-14 04:47
Gotta ask you, Drew, how are you determining your tie length.
My take on it is the top of the wrapping needs to be at the place where the cane is just wide enough to wrap around the diameter of the top of the tube (which is different for different tubes) with a tiny bit to firmly seal the edges. But please don't take anybody else's numbers, because their tubes may be different from yours.
The only way I know to do this is mark the cane where you think the end of the tube needs to be, put the and wrap to the mark. The cane will close progressively as you wrap up to the mark. (And, of course, it must close symmetrically...). If it doesn't close, move the mark further up the cane, but, more important, if the cane closes sooner than one turn before the mark, then you are wrapping too short, the cane is too wide, there is so much cane that it can't be pulled fully tight against the staple. Then it will spring open somewhere in the belly.
Once you have found the wrapping spot for any given shape you can mark all the cane from that shape at the same distance - assuming of course that you are wrapping onto the same staples. Variables are a real pain and the more you have the more bookeeping you have to keep track of...
Forgive me if I'm teaching Granny to suck eggs, but the variety of shapes makes me wonder how many uncontrolled variables you are struggling with...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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