Miracle cane…
Wednesday February 13 2008
So last July I bought a bunch of cane on ebay and I’ve only recently begun experimenting with some of it. Hidden in the midst of the 6 pounds of Vandoren and 4 pounds of oboeworks cane and a dozen other kinds was a little package containing a quarter pound of Glotin cut perfectly down to size so it didn’t need to be guillotined. As I split it I realized this .25 had one of the highest ratios of good pieces to crooked pieces, and I left it for 5 months.
Yesterday for the first time I gouged some up, and made three reeds. Three of the finest reeds I’ve made recently. The cane gouged so smoothly I virtually saw no holes in the curls, or miscellaneous bumps. The blanks scraped smoothly and I now have 3 very warm sounding but sturdy reeds, with lots of sound.
The last time I used Glotin was probably 15 years ago when I ordered some gouged shaped and folded from Forrests. That wasn’t very good, but this stuff is amazing. If it ever comes back on the market, I’m jumping all over it.
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