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Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-01-02 03:21
A good question Howard,
By my own experience, limited to a beaten-up machine that I have always maintained myself (could never find anyone anywhere at any price to help!), I can only tell you this: it depends on your gouger!
The standard gouging machines should never care about the inside part of the cane. So long as the "walls" (the side curvature that gets removed even with a hand-held knife) are low enough.... as long as the arc of the cane is small enough to fit the machine's bed, the gouger blade will handle the rest with no negative effects at all. In other words, after the cane is split (and pre-gouged if necessary), the width should fit nicely in the bed and the blade should be able to cut at least all the width of the cane eventually.
However, the new Udo Heng machine with the cylindrical blade that gets turned.... I'm not sure how the cane gets pushed out of the way, so I don't know if a more expensive pre-gouger could prevent stoppages. I don't mean dammage to the blade, I mean cane pushing its way into parts of the machine it is never supposed to reach.
One thing that I have seen mentioned in several places (here, web sites and other literature) is that cane can suffer from being compressed. If your pregouger presses on the cane: might prefer not to get it. Same with gouging: we like really sharp blades not just for precision (the grain density reaks havoc on that!) but also so we don't have to press hard when gouging.
Best of luck!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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HautboisJJ |
2011-01-01 13:28 |
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cjwright |
2011-01-01 20:41 |
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RobinDesHautbois |
2011-01-02 03:21 |
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