Dear Malcom,
I wish you could ask pipemakers about your ideas before putting it on
the List.
The idea of measuring from the shoulder was the original way of marking
the hole centres and I used it in my class for some time before
discovering that pupils' ideas of what was 5/8 varied from an 1/8
Hi Malcolm,
Welcome to the wonderful world of pipemaking.
The question of the reference point for tone holes is an old argument. Colin
Ross finds it convenient to measure from the top of the chanter. Makers who
hold the chanter in a chuck prefer to measure from the shoulder. The two are
