Review: Bagpipe Hemp Compressor by Gayle (4K) | Gimmick or useful tool? 

Glad you like them, thank you!

Thank you so much, glad you find them useful. Yes, big thank you to Matt Willis for his review.🙂

Great to hear!

Great to hear!

They arrived quickly, and they work GREAT. After going through your hemped joints you'll wonder how you got along without them. They can transform even a sloppy hemping job into perfection in just a few seconds. Great product, Gayle, and great review, Matt - thanks!

@@Northernbreed1738 Wow, that's lovely to hear, thank you ... particularly turning the sloppy hemping job into a good one... that was one of my reasons for creating them, along with not having the strength needed and the portability was a bonus😆

I will as soon as someone sends me one. ;)

I've tried that too. I never noticed is was any appreciably better than just wrapping tightly by hand. This tool was far more effective than at least my attempts at the "roll-as-you-go" method (and I've rehemped hundreds if not over a thousand instruments at this point...).

Problem being with using a table and block of wood (or any variation of that) is if you need a quick hemp edit while on the field and there is no wood in sight!! 😁

Good question, Dad... I wouldn't think so. This compressing eventually happens over time any way, with the normal process being to hemp the joint until it fits, then a week passes and you then have to add more hemp, another week passes, and more hemp, and so on until eventually it's packed down fully enough to not need anymore. This compressor seems to pack down the string as you go to speed up the process. On the "mature joints" on my existing pipes, it did compress them a tiny bit, but I only had to add a very small additional amount of string. And the normal joints don't tend to swell to the point of causing damage from moisture, so I don't think that would be the case here.

Hi, Matt’s Dad!

As noted in a text blurb in the video, Gayle recommends you "clamp" it on your finger to test how much pressure the tool is applying before using it on your pipes. Given the it's supplying even pressure around the whole piece, I suspect the chance is minimal (and also that the tool would likely snap first), but if it doubt, use a very gentle squeeze (or simply hemp by hand) on an older set,

Normal? Regular? The heavy duty stuff tends to unravel easier. I find it more effective to simply use another spool (3 to 4) of the regular stuff than fewer of the thicker thread.

The demand for these after I posted the video here outstripped her capacity to keep up. They'll be back!

Thats cause your so popular mate

www.ebay.com/itm/364552043444 (she is out of stock right now but she’s making more!)

New link: www.ebay.com/itm/364622984746

Yes indeed!

I also find that they are great for tuning pins, which is why there is a small one in the set 😀 Getting the hemp just right on the tuning pins was difficult for me!

Ha!

What if your teeth break??? Sounds expensive 😉