Hi everybody,

I've succesfully modelled a mouthpiece in 3d (solidworks) and succesfully 3d printed one. now I'm reviewing prototype "KB1" I'm not satisfied with the tip shape, I want it to be the same a reed.

But the tip shape of a reed is allmost impossible to measure! 

so that concludes me to my question; has anyone accurate dimensions of a reed? maybe Mojo as he has the metal reeds, are they lasercut or handmade? in the first case there have to be known dimensions.

I hope you can help,

Kind Regards,

Koen

For the metal reed templates I sell, I scanned typical reed shapes and also mirrored them (since they are not perfectly symmetric) to get graphical data sets for the tip shape curves.  I ran a spline through the data set.  I do not have dimensions or tables of numbers.  I submitted the CAD drawing to get them laser cut.


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From: Koen <koenbidlot@...>
To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 6:19 PM
Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Reed Dimensions?


  
Hi everybody,

I've succesfully modelled a mouthpiece in 3d (solidworks) and succesfully 3d printed one. now I'm reviewing prototype "KB1" I'm not satisfied with the tip shape, I want it to be the same a reed.

But the tip shape of a reed is allmost impossible to measure! 

so that concludes me to my question; has anyone accurate dimensions of a reed? maybe Mojo as he has the metal reeds, are they lasercut or handmade? in the first case there have to be known dimensions.

I hope you can help,

Kind Regards,

Koen

I did the same.
I scanned a Rico tenor reed on 2D scanner.
I saved the reed as tiff file... that's funny!
I imported the tiff file on AutoCad and then I drew the tip over the image.
So I got a CAD drawing of the tip.

Then you can import that drawing into a 3D cad... 

--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, Keith Bradbury <kwbradbury@...> wrote:
>
> For the metal reed templates I sell, I scanned typical reed shapes and also mirrored them (since they are not perfectly symmetric) to get graphical data sets for the tip shape curves.  I ran a spline through the data set.  I do not have dimensions or tables of numbers.  I submitted the CAD drawing to get them laser cut.
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Koen <koenbidlot@...>
> To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 6:19 PM
> Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Reed Dimensions?
> 
> 
>   
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've succesfully modelled a mouthpiece in 3d (solidworks) and succesfully 3d printed one. now I'm reviewing prototype "KB1" I'm not satisfied with the tip shape, I want it to be the same a reed.
> 
> But the tip shape of a reed is allmost impossible to measure! 
> 
> so that concludes me to my question; has anyone accurate dimensions of a reed? maybe Mojo as he has the metal reeds, are they lasercut or handmade? in the first case there have to be known dimensions.
> 
> I hope you can help,
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Koen
>

I gave it a try, and it works quite well! Thank you for this helpfull post.

 

 

 

Van: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com]
Namens tzadik@...
Verzonden: woensdag 2 mei 2012 18:55
Aan: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
Onderwerp: [MouthpieceWork] Re: Reed Dimensions?

 

  

I did the same.
I scanned a Rico tenor reed on 2D scanner.
I saved the reed as tiff file... that's funny!
I imported the tiff file on AutoCad and then I drew the tip over the image.
So I got a CAD drawing of the tip.

Then you can import that drawing into a 3D cad... 

--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:MouthpieceWork%40yahoogroups.com> , Keith Bradbury <kwbradbury@...>
wrote:
>
> For the metal reed templates I sell, I scanned typical reed shapes and
also mirrored them (since they are not perfectly symmetric) to get graphical
data sets for the tip shape curves.  I ran a spline through the data set.Â
I do not have dimensions or tables of numbers.  I submitted the CAD drawing
to get them laser cut.
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Koen <koenbidlot@...>
> To: MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:MouthpieceWork%40yahoogroups.com>  
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 6:19 PM
> Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Reed Dimensions?
> 
> 
> Â  
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've succesfully modelled a mouthpiece in 3d (solidworks) and succesfully
3d printed one. now I'm reviewing prototype "KB1" I'm not satisfied with the
tip shape, I want it to be the same a reed.
> 
> But the tip shape of a reed is allmost impossible to measure! 
> 
> so that concludes me to my question; has anyone accurate dimensions of a
reed? maybe Mojo as he has the metal reeds, are they lasercut or handmade?
in the first case there have to be known dimensions.
> 
> I hope you can help,
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Koen
>