Five Minute Reedmaker: Knife Techniques

This is possibly my favorite video so far - I enjoy thinking of different ways to describe the various scrapes and gestures that I use in constructing a reed.Among the topics covered:How your hand position might be working against youWhy your left (non-dominant) hand is the more important oneWhy you should Pull the cane off rather than pushing"Petting" the caneCentering your scrape in the channelCross-hatching to smooth notches and walls"Lifting" a nick outHow to keep a scraping disaster from worseningThe CURL, and a visualization for tip constructionThat's a lot for 10 minutes!https://youtu.be/7vAZPw9it_c

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