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Re: How to Sharpen things.

Author: RobinDesHautbois  Date:   2011-04-13 19:23 My last on this point..... promise! I wish you had clarified this earlier, it might have saved a lot of useless haggle. I definitely respect and sympathize with your frustration with advice given by people who lack the necessary specific experience. It just so happens that I said people are still getting it wrong because I've spent time with oboists (some at the Master's degree level majoring in performance) take out a reed knife that would barely scratch my thumb nail. Yes, some of them had books: if they misread, I can't blamed - and I have no obligation to learn techniques that appear to not work for others when mine work fine. Please don't presume that a software engineer (or anyone) cannot have spent time in the trade. Don't presume, either, that yours is the only way. And do read my statements in context: the burr method you promote applies to deep concave double-hollow-ground blades used in a planing action (swing of the wrist or not, the cutting direction is the same). Though I repect people like you who choose to use this, provided you good results from it, I find it too much trouble so I stick to simpler methods on different blades that have proven very satisfactory to myself and oboists who are now long-time professional performers; methods and blades which have been used for centuries in many countries, including the U.S.A. I'm guessing that the Caswell method is relatively new: novelty does not mean superiority.... if it did, we'd all be playing MIDI controllers! As for your point of just liking it.... you certainly have the right to enjoy abrasiveness and discord: not everyone will agree. (I haven't decided yet: you don't strike me as an outright bad guy!) Cheers! Robin Tropper M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed. http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

Topics	Author	Date
How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-04 23:52
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	hautbois francais	2011-04-05 00:13
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-05 10:23
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-06 15:36
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-06 16:04
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-06 16:55
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-06 17:21
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-06 18:10
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-06 20:14
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	mschmidt	2011-04-06 18:37
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-06 18:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-06 21:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-07 15:17
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-06 22:02
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-06 23:04
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	hautbois francais	2011-04-07 00:02
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-07 17:54
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jendereedknife	2011-04-09 06:37
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-09 12:45
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jendereedknife	2011-04-13 09:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-13 16:39
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jendereedknife	2011-04-21 13:58
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	mschmidt	2011-04-09 17:13
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Bobo	2011-04-09 14:49
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-09 19:47
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-13 12:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-13 14:24
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-13 14:29
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-13 14:30
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-13 14:39
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-13 16:30
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-13 17:50
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-13 19:23
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jhoyla	2011-04-13 18:34
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-13 23:18
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	johnt	2011-04-14 02:00
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	hautbois francais	2011-04-14 05:43
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	huboboe	2011-04-14 06:02
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-14 18:18
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Wes	2011-04-14 19:10
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-18 23:01
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-20 10:34
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-20 22:21
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-21 10:33
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	huboboe	2011-04-22 01:46
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-22 02:22
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-04-28 17:17
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-29 00:10
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-29 01:39
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-29 10:48
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-29 13:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	ohsuzan	2011-04-29 02:20
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-29 03:50
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	ohsuzan	2011-04-29 16:31
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	huboboe	2011-04-29 17:08
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-04-29 19:19
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-04-29 19:54
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Wufus	2011-04-30 19:19
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jendereedknife	2011-05-02 11:04
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-04 14:57
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-04 14:59
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-04 15:02
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-04 15:04
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-05-04 19:12
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	jendereedknife	2011-05-06 08:45
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-04 20:47
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	huboboe	2011-05-06 21:11
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-06 23:15
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-06 23:17
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	RobinDesHautbois	2011-05-06 23:50
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	Oboe Craig	2011-05-07 03:18
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	ohsuzan	2011-05-07 03:40
Re: How to Sharpen things.  new	oboedrew	2011-05-07 13:56

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