Author: mschmidt
Date: 2007-02-20 18:14
I'm also in the 5-10 minute category, and I do much the same two-step process that wrowand describes.
One new thing I have tried recently is, when drying a tied blank, I put it in an open plastic bag. Here in Southern California, things dry very quickly 9 days out of 10, and I was suspicious that this quick drying wasn't good for a newly-tied reed. I figured that drying it more slowly would allow it to dry more evenly, and create fewer stresses in the cane. So far, my casual impression is that I have less cracking. But I haven't kept detailed statistics, or done a controlled experiment. I generally find it easier to make good reeds out of Dunkel/Severson "XH" (extra-hard) cane, and cracking can be an issue. Yeah, this is sort of off-topic, but it wasn't really worth its own thread.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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