Author: jhoyla
Date: 2009-02-10 10:40
Cooper, hi,
Thanks for the tip about inserting electrical tape - although I think I'll look for something a little less sticky and elastic. Perhaps one of these re-usable page tags you can buy in office-supply retailers.
On my standard-bore 3 year-old Loree (QI 23), the bore-diameter of the bottom of the top joint tenon and the bore at the top of the middle joint well match exactly, to within .05 mm according to my vernier caliper. I'm very surprised that your oboe is not the same! I have never heard of an oboe where a step was introduced deliberately at that point.
The bore diameter at the joint of my oboe is exactly 10.00 mm.
Elizabeth, thanks for the info. There was a case where I had a new staple with a tiny ridge or flare at the very tip, which caused my cane to split on tie-on (wasted two pieces before I cottoned on). I filed the edge down and tied on again, and the resulting reed was actually beautiful. I never made the connection with the thinner tip edge, however. It is a simple thing to do, so I'm going to experiment more!
I'm running out of different color thread, so it is hard to keep track of all my reed experiments as they work slowly through my bull-pen. Come to think of it, I think I saw a photo of Coopers reeds marked with a dot of coloured nail-varnish. Good way of keeping track.
J.
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