GOUGERS, PRE GOUGERS, PROFILER, ETC.

Profilers

Bassoon Reed Tip Profiler. A wonderful machine for any serious bassoonist. As your hand rests on the beautifully shaped and finished wooden knob, the carriage slides effortlessly back and forth on its ball bearings, easily removing cane as the precision ball bearing riding on the hardened steel pattern insures each reed is the same thickness and profile. Both the finished tip thickness and the shaving thickness are easily adjustable. With this machine you can quickly turn a reed blank (either your own or our #N-02) into a finished reed

Bassoon Profiling Machine
Another carefully made German reed making machine. This is a barrel style profiler with some unique features:
• Hardened steel bearings on the barrel
• The barrel mounts between spring loaded detent balls
• Hardened steel arbor
• Ball bearings in the carriage
• Easy blade and cutting depth adjustments
• Built in center and scoring knives
• 2 piece adjustable template (pattern)
• Works with any cane length

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Gougers

Forrests Oboe Gouging Machine
·  Designed and built in Germany to our specifications and available exclusively from Forrests. Made of the finest materials and machined to the highest standards possible.
·  The base and bed are machined from one piece of billet aluminum for the best balance of strength, weight, and rigidity, then anodized for long life.
·  The blade carriage is machined from one piece of solid brass to ensure long lasting shoes.
·  The carriage rides on two linear motion ball bearings sliding over a large hardened and ground arbor to ensure easy movement with no play or flex.
·  The hardened and ground blade is easily adjusted for side alignment and depth of cut using three adjusting screws.
·  The gouge thickness is easily adjusted using one adjusting screw.
·  The cane is clamped in the bed for gouging both vertically (by the spring loaded hold down arms), and horizontally (by the spring loaded end stop).
Now Available!

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Oboe Gouging Machine, Ridilla Model
Introducing this new gouging machine, made in Germany by Reeds'n Stuff, in conjunction with Professor Andrea Ridilla of Miami University. This is an American Style oboe gouging machine with many innovative features.
· An ingenious mechanism to change the thickness of the gouge.
· New style of blade mounting makes changing the blade easy.
· Designed to make offsetting the blade easy. The built in dial indicator ensures precision when adjusting the blade offset.
· Accuratly ground blade uses the latest in composites and hardening techniques.
Patent Pending.

Gouging Machine. This beautifully made German machine is a truly unique design. After trimming to length on the included guillotine, the cane is clamped in the bed for gouging both vertically
(by the spring loaded hold down arms), and horizontally (by the spring loaded end stop). Gouging is quick and easy, with the carriage traveling on ball bearings, and the arbor of hardened and ground steel.
Are you tired of having to send out your machine to have the blade sharpened? Because of this machine's revolutionary design and superb construction, you can do it yourself! When the blade gets dull, just remove it, rotate it 180 degrees, and bolt it back in place, with no re-adjustment needed. Voila, a new, sharp, cutting surface! When both cutting surfaces are dull, just replace the blade. No downtime of your machine, no complicated blade re-adjustment, and no frustration. Of course, if you enjoy spending time doing battle with your machine, rather than gouging cane, this may not be the machine for you!
The oboe machine is available with an 11mm bed, the most commonly used, or a 10mm bed, if you use very small diameter cane. The English Horn machine has a 12.5mm bed.

The machine size is defined by the diameter of the bed (most oboe machines are 11 mm) and the blade. Forrests' originally sold the 11 mm oboe machine with an 11.8 mm blade and shoe, we now sell it with an 11.6 mm blade and shoe.
The size should be stamped on the brass blade holder, if not it probably uses the 11.8 mm blade.
If the machine was not sold by Forrests we have no way of knowing what size blade was used, and can not guarantee that any blade we sell will fit.

Gouging Machines. RDG. Available in models for oboe and English horn, These gougers arrive at your door set up and ready to use. Adjustments are easy to make and, on special order, and at additional cost, we can even make Image of #H-15

the bed adjustable within a 1mm (+/-) range.
The bearings of the tool carriage are perfectly aligned and travel smoothly on the ground steel arbor. The carriage is guided by an "inboard" ball bearing which permits easy access to the blade and the cane being gouged. Vertical and horizontal blade adjustments are controlled by screw gears in both directions. A cane guillotine is mounted on the gouger base plate.
The standard oboe bed is 11mm, resulting in a gouge ratio of .60 mm to .45 mm. On special order, 10.5 mm bed models can be ordered at 10% additional charge. However, most oboists use the standard gouger for the full range of cane diameters from 10 to 11 mm.
The standard English horn bed is 12.5mm.
The standard Bassoon bed is 25.4mm
THE MANUFACTURER IS NOW TELLING US DELIVERY TIME IS ABOUT 6 MONTHS!

Standard Gouger Blade. A replacement blade for the #H-15 oboe gouger. (11 mm diameter - inquire about other sizes.) Made of high speed tool steel.

Grinding Service for Gouger Blades. We re-grind the worn blade of your gouger back to original RDG specifications. Please allow 15 days for completion of sharpening. Normal shipping & handling charge applies. Send blade only.
(#H-31) $45.00 Please call us at 800-322-6263 for shipping instructions.

Pre Gougers

Pre-Gouger. Reeds 'n Stuff. Now available for oboe, English horn, & bassoon. Although the name is regrettable, the machine is excellent! Just put the cane in the anodized aluminum bed, and turn the crank. The machine first trims the top of the cane, then pre-gouges it, all in one stroke. The trim blade is reversible for twice the use before sharpening or replacing. The unique circular pre-gouging blade can be rotated 3 times before replacing. Made in Germany

Cane Guillotine

Oboe Cane Guillotine
Trims oboe cane to length before gouging. Now adjustable, to use with any oboe gouger!

Cane Splitters

Oboe and English Horn Cane Splitter
This 3 way, cane splitter for oboe and English horn cane has a sliding collector ring, to control the cane as it is split.

Forrests Cane Splitter
Very sharp, easy to use three way cane splitter with collector/guard. Works on smaller diameter cane than most splitters. Designed by Ray Dusté, and built in our shop

Bassoon Cane Splitter
4 way splitter for bassoon cane, similar to H-28