Author: huboboe
Date: 2011-04-02 04:37
Hi, gang -
First off, Oboe Francais suggested the very thing I was talking to Cooper about offline yesterday. I defer to him and to those who have actually played with gouge dimensions. I've always tried for the classic 45 - 60 - 45 gouge, and I need to learn more especially about double radius gouging. I'm going to start a new thread so we don't have to navigate so far down this one. Please join in. (How could I prevent it???)
Oboe Francais: Hey, I'm an equal opportunity praiser. Landwell makes a really fine knife, the best knife I have used - until I designed the one that will be unveiled at the IDRS in June. Look on the website soon.
You can check how well your blade is centered by gouging to completion without turning the cane. Then measure the sides for evenness...
Craig: Don't know if you were talking to me or Robin, but I'll think on it. Do you know the carbide blade sharpener called the Samuri Shark? It sharpens blades, scissors, etc with an angled carbide scraping blade. (Google it). It might be your answer. I'm not fond of aggressive sharpeners for finish sharpening because they are hard to control and wear out the blade too rapidly, but, as I said, I'll think on it.
Robin: I make a splitter out of a 3 bladed arrow point but I dull the edges quite a bit both for safety and because I want it to split along the 'grain' of the cane, not cut across it.
Mike: Yup, Ramm didn't have fancy tools. Check out the engravings in the front of the Barrett Oboe Method. It's a couple of generations later than Mozart, but the tools are probably the same: scrapers of different dimensions.
I'll start that new thread now. See y'all there...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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