When things are out of whack…

Wednesday October 10 2007

I return to my standards.

• Graf #1 gouge
• Weber 1-B shape
• Grimaud Cane

But what happens when my standards aren’t living up to par? Then I need to play around with one of these variables. So I changed shape.

• Graf #1 gouge
• Weber 1-C shape
• Grimaud Cane

Lo and behold, I got some pretty darn good results! Several of them! I decided to pull out the ole’ Weber 1-C shape because I’ve been thickening my sides up a bit, but began getting some “inflexible” results, which forced me to take more and more and more cane off, thus compromising the structural integrity of the reed. I wasn’t very happy with these results, because my openings got smaller and smaller. Well, with the 1-C, peace and order were restored. But then I started thinking—

“Hm— But my Graf #2 is set up for the 1-C—”

So I changed that.

• Graf #2
• Weber 1-C shape
• Grimaud Cane

My initial measurements of the cane coming of the Graf #1 and Graf #2 were almost identical (but obviously the curve isn’t). And of course, the reed on the Graf #2 worked great as well.

So now this makes me think I need to go back and start thinning the sides of the Graf #1 to restore order so that it clicks well with my Weber 1-B.

Sigh— gouging machines give me a headache.

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