Author: mschmidt
Date: 2014-12-07 21:57
Are people confusing me with the original poster? I do not experience any frustration in tying my reeds. I have standardized my staples to be 46 mm Guercio d12s that I get from Germany, and I have several dozen of them. I am doing a little experimentation with cane shapes, which is necessitated by my changing cane suppliers, but I am happiest with narrower shapes.
The only reason I entered this thread is that I thought I might have stumbled on a reason for why people do the crossover, which I have never done for almost 40 years, and which has not seemed to cause problems in 95% of the reeds I have tied. I was just wondering whether that 5% I did have problems with years ago were due to the lack of a crossover. You have now convinced me that they were not.
I think measuring the cane is probably a good idea, but, given my imparied abilities to keep things where they belong, I would spend more time looking for the calipers each time than doing the little low-tension adjustment shuffle that I do with each reed, which takes no more than 15 seconds.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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