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Re: reed making question

Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2011-04-05 21:04

If you are doing a long scrape style you might try this:

After you tie the blank, scrape a light back all the way to the tip. Don't go very deep and certainly not too deep in the heart area. Keep it very smooth and avoid nicks.

It might help to count your knife strokes, then repeat on each channel of both blades. Using the same number of strokes will help with balance later.

Ensure the cane bark remains on the rails from back through heart and the center spine stays prominent, although do remove the bark from it gradually as each channel forms. Don't scrape directly on the spine. It'll come off naturally.

Then, scrape tip end of blank fairly thin (this is well beyond where the finished reed will reside. Do this and clip the tip open.

Insert a plaque and rough in the tip area using only diagonal knife strokes towards the corners and complete each stroke beyond the cane's end.

You will start to see a tip and plateau (heart and the transition between them, and you will not have to fight the bark of the cane any more.

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