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Gouged, shaped and folded.

Author: mschmidt
Date: 2006-01-31 18:59

I've been making reeds for the last 30 some years using gouged, shaped and folded cane. (Not continuously--there were some pretty long gaps in the 80's and 90's.) Lately I've been wondering if it would be worth my while to start with tube cane. I've heard it said--or, well, read it written--that in the long run, you can save money. In the short run, however, you have to pay for the gouger and the shaper tips. Because I'm an amateur with a time-consuming and money-making job, though, I wonder just how much time I'm going to end up spending just getting to the gouged, shaped and folded stage. If it's very long, I may be better off spending the money I make at my "real job" for someone else to do the gouging and shaping.

I suppose there also is the issue of "control," but it seems like I am much freer to try different shapes and openings by buying a half-dozen pieces of a different shape or opening from Dunkel & Severson than to go out and buy a new sack of tube cane or a new shaper tip.

How many of you out there start at the tube cane stage? How many buy GFS cane?

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore

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