Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-01-13 03:08
I come and gone on so many reed things in my nearly 40 years of playing, I've forgotten some and am probably now repeating. (I started reed making the 1st year of playing...at age 12).
For my next forray into dry gouging, since I use a flat planer for a pre-gouger, I think I'll pre-gouge and start the gouge wet, then let it dry and finish the final gouging dry.
For the more modern push through pre-gougers, would you do that dry as well? I've only seen it done on wet cane and even then it took a pretty good effort to push the cane through. Dry strikes me as a sort of mouse trap waiting to spring back on the reed maker.
Other thought would be use my old Graf for a pre-gouger to get a concave 2nd stage pre-gouge w/o wearing too much on my new RDG blade.
What about the guillotine process dry, seems to me to invite more cracks at least using my old Graf device. Perhaps I could bypass that problem using a Dremel tool to avoid stresses on the split cane. (Then cane dust would become some sort of issue...as Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say, "it's always something, one thng or another."
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