Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Kaz wrote:

Is there any advice on binding?
Thanks,
Kaz

Use 20lb (minimum--I like 40-50lb high grade stuff; it's not much thicker).

See this link from Perry Yung's website (I think it's also posted somewhere on the forum):

     http://www.yungflutes.com/log/archives/ … a_cra.html

There is an excellent search function on this forum (see 'Search' in the navbar at the top of the page). Questions are always welcome, but a search is almost always beneficial (since the members answering will likely be doing the same search anyway). Search term in this case was, not surprisingly: 'binding'.

Kaz wrote:

Yes, I did a search.  Binding isn't the issue as much as how to bind a crack that runs from the second hole past the first.  There is only as much space to bind as there is space between the second hold (top hole on front) and the first hole (back hole). I suppose I could try binding is the very little space there, but I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas.  I could also just leave the bottom part of the crack unbound and bind the part that runs past the first hole (back hole).
Peace,
Kaz

Hmmm...that's a toughy (for consistency's sake: the hole nearest the bottom, opposite the blowing end, is known as the 'first hole', the one above that, the 'second hole', and so on, the one on the back side being the 'fifth hole'), but it seems to me that you could put 8-10 wraps of binding there without affecting playability. Besides, you have no other options, methinks.

Might want to run this by Perry Yung, who has seen and fixed most everything: perryATyungflutes.com

Provide a pic, if you can.

Last edited by edosan (2009-01-03 15:53:30)