Author: mschmidt
Date: 2014-12-02 09:03
Ah ha! Now I finally understand the crossover and why my first reed instructor didn't do it (or tell me to do it). The key is this phrase: "ideally right at the top of the staple." That makes it sound as if the stopping place is determined by what it requires to get the cane to close properly, even if it isn't exactly at the top of the staple, although that is "ideal." What my 1st teacher taught me was that getting the thread just to the end of the staple was the most important thing--you just had to do trial and error with the first loop of thread, with relatively low tension, right at the top of the staple until the cane was positioned so that it just came together on both sides with that first loop of thread. He told me that going past the end of the staple would make it impossible for the reed to maintain a proper opening. That is why the crossover never made sense to me--the cane would hide how close you were to the end of the staple, which I was taught was the most important thing to watch for.
This also explains another thing: why, with some staples and some cane shapes which seem to work great for other folks, I just never can get the sides of the reed to close properly. Perhaps if my wrapping technique would focus on getting the sides to close properly without such regard for the end of the staple, these combinations of shape and staple would work for me, too.
Crossover here I come? Errr...ummm....we'll see. I have almost 40 years of habit to break.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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