Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-01-07 13:15
Initially, I split cane dry, cut to length dry and pregouged dry. Then I'd soak and gouge. Some cane twisted or warped once soaked so got rejected.
Now, I soak the tubes and go from cane splitting to gouging for perhaps 10 pieces but stop at pre-gouging for most of the cane I prepare. I usually prep about 50 pieces total, so 40 pre-gouged, 10 gouged.
I have not observed the warping you describe on my pre-gouged from wet split cane.
I use a plane style pre-gouger so it mills off a flat face on the cane.
I have seen some people use the push through kind and it struck me as kind of violent toward the cane.
Which type do you use?
(I know, we split it, guillotine it, pre-gouge and gouge, then bend it over metal clamp it down and attack it wil razors...so violence is a relative term here.)
Post Edited (2007-01-07 14:22)
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