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Equipment
The tools that shape cane into a reed: knives, gougers, shapers, and the small kit that keeps an edge keen.
The reed knife
The oboe maker's most personal tool — bevel geometry, hollow-ground versus double-bevel blades, and how to keep a reed knife sharp enough to shave cane cleanly.
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The two machines that prepare cane before scraping — the gouger that sets wall thickness and the shaper tip that sets the blade's outline, and how each changes the reed.
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