@fatboy, I've played saxophone since I was in single digits. To keep my scholarship at university I got put on oboe for a year and a half. I was also a piano major and there was a bit of a turf war you might say... and double reeds became my punishment. Anyway, you make your own oboe, bassoon & english horn reeds because they are $$$$$$ and half the time the store-bought sucks.

- first time I was scraping a binding with a razor knife, I thought "Wait - this seems familiar..." Dug it out of the closet. WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT FELLOW BUILDERS! No cuts in my fingers ever.