Author: mschmidt
Date: 2015-03-01 10:35
I get what you are saying, but, theoretically, a thread in static tension has equal and opposite forces pulling it in both directions. As long as the thread is static along the line of tension--not slipping--it shouldn't matter, the main force on the cane is perpendicular to the path of the thread, pushing the cane against the staple. It seems like the best way to prevent slippage of the cane is to roughen the exterior of the staple rather than to worry about which way the blades are slipped.
Of course, that is all just theoretical physics! I am sure you have made many thousand more reeds than I have! Nonetheless, I have been making reeds for 10+ years and my reeds, which are often slipped the wrong way, seal up fine 99% of the time. Well, at least my oboe reeds do! My English horn reeds don't always work out so well, but I think that may be more a result of the pre-shaped cane I buy.
My first reed-making instructor told me not to slip the blades at all, to aim for perfect alignment. Then another instructor told me to slip them, but I don't remember whether the direction of slippage was included in those instructions. Since joining this board some years ago, I have tried slipping them the "correct" way, but with the gouged, shaped and folded cane I buy, I sometimes find that the existing fold favors the "incorrect" slippage. Rather than fight the existing fold, and perhaps stress the cane, I just let it go the way it wants to go. Seems to work for me. But, then, I'm not a pro.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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