These are the best looking Pakistani reeds I have seen. I am purchasing and will
try one out, open one up tweak it and go from there. Any one tried this maker?
sides look a bit sus 6reeds 7aussie dollars each… I might just end up with staples, bridles
and a sacrificial offering to the God of reeds
Bryan
Jolly good luck.
Seriously, don’t!
You will not get anything remotely useful from these. Just look at the gap behind that bridle, you could drive a bus through there.
Looks aren’t any judge of whether a reed is good or not and you can save yourself the expense by not wasteing your money.
If you want to do something better with your cash, save a bit, buy one good reed from a reedmaker.
Or click on the Hungersite banner at the top of this page!
If it’s too late and you’ve bought them already then at least be honest about them when they arrive.
Interested to hear about the results of this. The seller seems to be a distributor of others products. Yes, the bridle will need adjustment regardless, but otherwise they are a big step forward. What chanter are you coupling them with? It would be interesting to hear how they perform with a newer Mid-East Manufacturing chanter.
Fire away… 
Thanks for positive hp. I have made a lot of very successful reeds for a wide Hunter bore and a Rowsome bore. Yes I agree the bridle is a terrible shape the head could be cleaned BUT the cane looks reasonable and the scrape is the best ive seen on a Pakistani reed. I do not have any great expectations, but I do enjoy messing around. As for buying a reed I bought 2 from the late Allen Moller and he was a great help.( I even won a reed off him with a bet on the Aussie cricket team against the Poms). As he stated without voicing to a particular chanter it was a bit of a catch22 . Dismantling one of his reeds and making a reasonable copy set me on the road to reed making. I will post results and the overall dimensions of the reed.
“Ideas that don’t work are better than none at all”
Bryan
Chocolate Teapot
Inflatable dartboard
Handbrake in a canoe
Tits on a bull
Ashtray on a motorbike
etc…
If they work that’s great and I’d eat my hat. It all really depends on the staple size. You could (technically) put 2 blades of grass on the appropriate staple and she’ll go. I had a Pakistani chanter in my workshop and that reed was 100% useless. The blades were ok really but the staple was HUGE. I put one of my own staples on it and it was fine.
Tommy
I don’t expect them to work anymore than I would expect a reputable reedmakers reed to work 100% without having
access to the chanter. I am hoping I have six reeds with 80% of the leg work done and I can bring them up to scratch.
I too have reeded a Pakistani chanter It was perfect in the first octave and crap in the second. It just amazes me how many sets are on the market and why they cant make that next leap making a reasonable cheap playable set.
They state it is a copper staple so using the premise that the staple is 5mm OD and the tip is 12mm It would make the total
length around 85mm and the binding to tip approx 25mm. Very workable.
Looking at the E bay feedback at least 3 people have been happy with these reeds
The gauntlet has been picked up WATCH this space 
Bryan
I tend to agree, and my experience sounds similar to yours. The geometry looks rightish to work with a Rowesome style bore. The scrape looks as good or better than many. It’s a very simple bridle, and would work fine if adjusted, or just replace it with something else. Take one apart and measure the staple and eye geometry and post it here.
At least we will know, and if no good, will have demonstrated that publically. If it works modestly well with some adjustment you will have shown that.
Contrary to popular opinion, there is no immutable law that states that a craftsperson from country x cannot crack this particular nut.
It could be the magnification of the pic but the bridle looks a bit thick. They are hand cut, maybe not annealed copper as they look stiff
I know it’s all pie in the sky. But yeah worth a go.
I bought a cheap Pakistani set of bellows (rough as) I got them working really well. Put a shoe tack between each stud drilled a series of holes around the inlet valve and replaced the clacker with finer leather and made a new gasget for the outlet tube. It has no leeks,
my only gripe is the sound of the bellows inflating/deflating maybe some sort of leather oil, exteriour might help
Bryan