Author: cjwright
Date: 2011-03-13 17:00
I overlap as it is a critical part of my scrape, as I've learned from David Weber, John Mack, and now Martin.
Traditionally, you overlap with the top blade to the right, bottom blade to the left. Obviously you don't want to do it a lot, but enough to get the entire blade overlapped, clear down to under the string.
When you tie it, you want to make sure that you pull the string so that it pushes the overlapped blade back into the other blade. So for example, if you're overlapping the top blade to the right, you want to tie so that the string goes from right to left to produce counter-torque. This will prevent your blades from slipping further once the reed is tied.
I personally think it's easier to tie an overlapped reed more consistently than a reed which is perfectly sitting both blades equally. Also, overlapping gives a bit more leeway in terms of how clean/precise/neatly you have to shape a piece of cane, as if you have any slightest imperfection, a blank which isn't overlapped will leak or be unequal.
In any case, i think the most important thing you can do for yourself is be consistent.
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