Custom bagpipe chanter reed protector

[OC Richard]

Lovely work!

I too would be interested in getting two or three of those! Particularly in a lightweight but hard wood like Maple perhaps.

I've discovered, the hard way, that the ID of the cap (protector) should be scarcely larger than that of your stock.

I have several of those caps, in polypenco/delrin, and tend to prefer the thin-walled ones because they're so much lighter to carry around in the pipe case (delrin being very dense and heavy).

But! The other day I paid the price, because the thin-walled ones have much larger IDs, meaning that if the screw gets a bit loose the cap can get tilted to one side, and it happened, and ruined my very best reed!

Dawned on me that I want the narrowest possible ID so that the cap stays on straight and can't hit the edge of the reed blade.