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Re: Reed Adjustments

Author: jhoyla
Date: 2008-06-19 05:21

Superb advice from everyone here. I would add one thing only to what vboboe has written, and that is to consider adjusting the angle of the inverted "V", making it a tiny bit more acute. The trick is to adjust only the edges of the V without touching the vertex.

Whenever I need to do this, I first think of turning my inverted V into a half-moon/fingernail sort of shape. Then, if this is insufficient, I scrape the blend a little bit closer to the vertex which gives me a "V" again, but with a more acute angle.

First check that the slope of the shoulder/blend is correctly defined all the way to the very edge, and that you don't have some "outriders" extending into the tip from the rails of the heart (use backlight to check). If this is not the problem, very gradually dust on the extreme edges of the shoulder/blend, extending the tip backwards into the heart.
Be extremely cautious as you do this - never get to the point where the cane at the bottom of the blend is thinner than the rest of the tip, since this will cause the tip to vibrate independently and give you a very "tippy" sounding reed.

Crow and play often (the reedmaker's mantra - rather like "lather, rinse, repeat").

J.

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