European online shop where i can buy some cork

[ralphy1976]

hi guys,

i am trying to find a sax shop (online) which sells cork as i need to re-cork my sax.

Also i'd like to know if there are different thickness for corks and if there is a view as to what those thickness may do to your sound?

Thanks guys
Ralphy
ps : what about grease? will any do or do you have a brand you swear by?

 

[Two Voices]

This thread might help answer some of your questions. Click here for thread entitled cork?

 

[ralphy1976]

thanks, paul..sadly it mentions no shop.

do you buy yours locally?

 

[Two Voices]

This article should help get the job done Recork a Sax Crook

You can purchase cork from Wind Plus

 

[ralphy1976]

AWESOME!!!! thanks a lot Paul!!!

 

[kevgermany]

there are a few suppliers in Germany for sax and other woodwind bits, you'll need to do some googling:

reedshop (poor service but they have pad slicks, find them through saxwelt.de)
Sinus reeds/Rudolf Pflaumer. Obscure, but top quality hand made reeds.
Prestini.de (run by one of the Keilwerth family).
www.saxophon-service.de (Mike Duchstein), should keep you going for a bit.
Curt Altarac's music medic in the US is often faster than getting stuff from the UK. Watch for Zoll/Steur.

On the thickness, check the diameter of the tip to the neck, and the size of the hole in the mouthpiece, halve the difference, and add some on to allow for compression and sanding to size. But is the cork shot, or just compressed - if it's compressed, some gentle steaming will restore it to it's proper size - just hold it over the spout of a boiling kettle. Be careful.... Doesn't take long, and don't get steam on the neck if it's lacquered.

 

[ralphy1976]

danke kev,

no the cork is split and damaged, i can see the neck, i'll check those guys out later on.

Ralphy

 

[1954pip]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NATURAL-Neck-...t=UK_Woodwind_Instruments&hash=item3cb31ba7f2
this is where i got mine fromvery fast delivery
pi

 

[ralphy1976]

thanks man
ralphy