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reed knives

Author: claire70
Date: 2008-03-28 20:34

My most advanced student has just got to the stage where he could learn to scrape his own reeds. (And is starting to attack them at home with a fruit knife, so I want to teach him how to do it properly!!! That's 14 year old boys for you...)

So I've just been checking the Howarth website so I can tell his mother what to buy. It's years and years since I bought my own knife, so I was mildly surprised to find that some of the knives listed there have different 'measurements' - eg Gregson does a no.4 and a no.5, the Graf knives are 75mm or 85mm. I take it that these are to do with the angle the blade is set at, but can anyone enlighten me further? What difference does it make to your average non-professional reed-scraper?

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