Author: mschmidt
Date: 2014-08-10 06:41
I've been careful not to oversoak, but I haven't tested the lower limits of soaking. I'm still at 20-25 minutes. The cane from my old supplier I could safely soak an hour without having crack problems. When I posted that on another thread here, somebody responded that I must have really bad cane--or really good. That enigmatic statement exactly illustrates the problem you're trying to investigate here: nobody really is sure what makes cane "good" for them.
Yes, the cracks happen late in the process, as in I do an initial scrape one day, come back to it the next, and it's on that second day, or even third, when the reeds crack--not visibly, but enough to suddenly give a flat buzzy sound. It could be that this particular cane is kept together by the bark; once the reed is scraped, the rest of the cane is now freer to expand and contract as it dries and is remoistened the second day.
My new supplier is in a dry climate; maybe the cane comes to me drier than the stuff from my old Eastern supplier.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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