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Re: Reed Profiler

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2019-10-03 00:40

Dibbs - It's hard to sharpen these with due respect to you. Not to get too technical here but it's best to IMHO and again total respect to you, to have a grinding machine sharpen these blades to assure total squareness within just 1 thousandths of an inch. Yes we can sharpen them ourselves as I have and I've screwed them up because they were not square after sharpening them a few times. So like I said above I do have my reasons and when I make my final cut on the Vamp it's nice when every part on the reed blank is SQUARE. You can email me for the measurements I use when cutting the Vamps if reeds and the sides of the reeds at the tips must be dead on or within 0.005" or translated to 1/2 thousandth of an inch. The average blond human hair is 2 thousandths of an inch thick. A black hair in general is 3. 2 is what I allow for the sides of the reeds in the back. The thickness of a blond hair, or I'm not happy with the reed. By the way the right side of the reed has to be lighter, not the left side. This has to do with how we hold the clarinet. Yes it matters and it's a science.

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