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Tech/maintenance SML Gold Medal Optimal Key Heights (an Overhaul in progress)

That's my first post here, hope I don't break a rule :D I've got a very nice early SML GM2 in the Summer, which I decided to overhaul in the Christmas Holidays. It needed badly a repad and for dubious aesthetic reasons I decided to strip also the patinated nickel keys (it had the "two tone"...
- Feon
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- Jan 2, 2020
- key heigth overhaul sml
- Replies: 14
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
Tech/maintenance Recommended repair tech in the UK (North West)

Looking for recommendations for a good repair tech in the North West area - Liverpool/Manchester/Cheshire/Shropshire/North Wales?? I have a couple of horns that need full overhauls - reppaded, springs/felts/cork etc... I know about Steve Crow in Yorkshire but apparently he has a very long...
- Hankenstine
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- May 4, 2019
- north west overhaul repair tech
- Replies: 7
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
Tech/maintenance Hawkes & Son XX Century Soprano overhaul

So I've been brave or stupid enough to embark in that mission impossible. It all started a few year ago, when I decided to buy this unlikely British made soprano. I don't think I'd do it again, but I was in a GAS spree and found that horn appealing... It's now been on the bench for a few days...
- saxyjt
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- Feb 4, 2019
- hawkes & son overhaul xx century
- Replies: 19
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
Tech/maintenance What am I doing?

Here is a little game. Who's guessing what I'm doing here? Those sweet little pink ribbons are there for a reason. Any idea?
- saxyjt
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- Jan 19, 2019
- leaks overhaul pads
- Replies: 16
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
Tech/maintenance First overhaul out!

Today I sold my first completely overhauled saxophone. It's just the third one I do. Complete dis-assembly, deep clean, full repad, complete corks and felts replacements (I didn't like the green felts), repositioned some of the posts and key cups that where not properly covering the tone holes...
- saxyjt
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- Nov 28, 2018
- overhaul pads
- Replies: 8
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
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Tech/maintenance Should I overhaul my Tenor?

I just recently bought a 1976 DJH Modified Rolled Tone Holes Conn 110M Tenor Sax and it's lacquered. I heard that UL can give the open and wide spread tone that I've been looking for by my friend who plays a UL. Is this true? Should I Overhaul or keep the lacquer? I was thinking of doing it...
- MatteTSax
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- Jan 28, 2017
- conn overhaul tenor
- Replies: 21
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷
Tech/maintenance Those good repair techs are simply amazing.

I was due to go on the woodwind course with Trevor head but the teacher Keith Magnall sadly had a stroke, I was thinking this is going to set me so far back I shall never get going, then one of my favourite techs said he would teach me :) I spent just two days last week learning about...
- Melissa
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- Sep 21, 2015
- overhaul repair techs
- Replies: 31
- Forum: 🎷 Saxophones: gear, playing, repair, impro 🎷