Author: OboeCraig
Date: 2012-03-28 04:16
A slight aside from the responsiveness question, but still related.
Mary, if I find cane that require more than a few days to stabilize and become ready to be a reed candidate or a recycled staple opportunity, I do not use it.
I have some of that for sure, and it tends to be newer batches of cane. After 5 - 10 years it tends to settle down.
And this is a tough subject for lots of players. How do you get ahead of a 5 - 10 year cane curing curve.
1) Wait for someone to die and try to buy all his/her cane.
2) Buy a lot and keep stockpiling it.
3) I have never done this, but do both. (I do 2).
However, to accelerate or approximate the curing process, tie a blank...do an initial scrape, let it dry and then wet-dry cycles daily for a few days before scraping the reed.
It really helps, may take a little life out of the cane, but those useless, troublesome and variable first 8 lives of a cat are gone and the really important 9th one remains as the potential reed.
Also, if you tie up 100 or so blanks a couple times a year and work through them 1 reed a day 5 days a week, life tends to improve with the reeds.
It is really nice to just sit down and scrape w/o gouge, shape, tie before you scrape.
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And I am with you. I could not do a reed business, at least as a full-time job. I would go nuts, all over again.
Post Edited (2012-03-28 04:19)
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