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If your having a real problem find those leaks, get a smoking friend, the tabaco kind and get them to blow into the bag with a lung full and you will soon see even the tiniest leaks, looks like its on fire.

Davy.

Hi Big Mick I have seen many Shopsmith demo's and tried one and can say they are one hell of a useful tool, as I'm sure your aware they have a huge number of attachments and uses, including a fabulous bandsaw attachment and the variable speed system is great. My own views reflect from starting out l...

Native or home grown timbers like cherry, apple, plumb and pear are fine to use as long as you seal them properly once they are made, fruitwoods are more pourous than the likes of ebony and blackwood and can require extra finger pressure over the tone holes in order to seal them off properly. You ca...

When you are satisfied that the whipping is tight enough in the ferrule, beeswax the last three feet or so of thread, then with a couple of half hitches pull it tight. Try not to beeswax too much because beeswax tends to be very sticky and when it hardens can make the stock so secure that it might t...

Hi Tim One of the reason for not blowing a cold or dry blown instrument reed with you mouth is because the reeds when dry have many tiny pockets or cells in linear form, some say a small puff on the reed won't hurt it, probably true, but its good practice not to mouth blow an uilleann reed. If these...

Dear Piper Any one of your drone reeds on its own should use no more pressure than the chanter reed itself, if so this could be down to the petal or tongue/s being set too wide open or too stiff to vibrate properly on any or all the reeds. When you turn on your drones they should start to sound in a...

I have really enjoyed my time on the list, but feel its now time to move on and so wish you all the very best.

Davy.

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