Скачать или смотреть Transforming a bassoon reed blank into a performance reed -- initial steps.

Author describes and demonstrates transforming a typical bassoon reed blank into a quality reed. Found here are the initial steps of: reaming, making a shoulder, cutting the blank to length, and initial scraping to a specified set of centerline thickness measurements. This video is the 8th in a series on making bassoon reeds. A following video will demonstrate the finishing steps to create a performance quality reed.

There are typographical errors in the text at 10:27 -- the second line should read:
"Thickness (0.001 inch) 12 16 19 22 25 27 29 30 31"

The following video "More details on transforming a bassoon reed blank into a performance reed" includes equations (in the Description) to calculate centerline thickness measurements for various spacings in either English or metric measurements.