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Woofus Factor

Author: huboboe
Date: 2014-08-10 00:32

At the IDRS Conference on Wednesday evening Frank Swann, Tom Blodgett and I were talking about establishing some means of describing cane in a manner that reflected measurable physical characteristics that could, taken a group, define the characteristics of a given batch of cane in an understandable and repeatable manner. And so the Woofus Scale was born.

Don't ask. It was late and alcohol was involved.

We invite the members of this forum to participate in establishing a set of factors which can be accurately measured and whose comparative results would provide the potential user with information useful in making a choice. Obviously the reedmaker would need to familiarize him/her self with a few batches of cane of different descriptions to feel comfortable with 'reading' the Woofus description, but over time this approach might allow cane to be described in ways more concrete than is now done.

A few examples of possibilities:

1) Hardness of bark, hardness of 'meat' as measured by penetration of as probe with a ball point falling a fixed distance, driven by a constant weight (as metal hardness is today).

2) Flexibility of a length of known dimensions with/without bark, as measured by deflection with a known and constant weight.

3) Twist or torque of a length of known dimensions, as measured by the deflection of a weighted lever of constant dimensions...

...and so on. See if you can thing of some (Woofus) Factor which might have an effect on either the reed making process or the finished reed.

Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com

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