
Profile My Cane, Custom Profiling Service
Send us your own cane and we'll profile it to your specifications. Source the cane wherever you prefer (for example oboe-shop.de), already gouged and/or shaped, or fully unshaped. We finish the form (Berlin or Milan profile), the length, and the shaping itself for unshaped cane. Pricing • €12 flat fee per order (paid now) • €3 per finished piece (final invoice after the work) • Return shipping (final invoice, at cost) How it works 1. Place this order, pays the €12 base fee 2. Ship your cane to: Walter Egli, windholz.io Alte Bettswilerstrasse 7A 8344 Bäretswil Switzerland 3. We profile your cane to the specs you selected at checkout 4. We ship it back; you receive a final Stripe invoice for €3 × piece count + return shipping Customs note (international shipments to Switzerland) On the customs declaration mark the package as 'Raw material for processing, to be returned to sender, no commercial value'. This avoids customs duty and clearance delays.
12.00 EUR
✓ Precision-crafted reeds
✓ Consistent design specifications
✓ Ready to play
Berlin vs Milan

Berlin profile
Focused, projecting, with more resistance. The profile of choice for German and Austrian symphonic playing.

Milan profile
Warm, flexible, vocal. Favoured by Italian and Mediterranean schools, with an open, generous response.

Made by Walter
Each Windholz reed is profiled by Walter Egli in our small workshop near Zürich. Every parameter you set is measured to ±0.01 mm. Made to order.