The Book

The videos below are exercises drawn from my Reed Making book, available in the storefront.

Steps included in this book include:

• shaping and profiling
• blank formation
• first scrape (for response)
• second scrape (for intonation and flexibility)
• third scrape (for finesse and tone)

For the full complement of videos and multiple perspectives of the same steps, visit my YouTube playlist.

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​The Videos

If you have prepared cane already and are ready to check out how I form and wrap blanks, here is that process:

Looking to go back even further? Here is how I prepare tube cane for forming:
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• splitting and pre-gouging
• gouging
• shaping (straight v. folding)
• profiling

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