Melissa
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Hi all,
Sorry I have not been on for an age,I am looking after my Mum with Cancer.
As you may remember,I am opening up a web shop selling instruments and I was hoping to have opened up 5 months ago.Unfortunately little did I realise just how long the process would take.Please tell me if I am wrong here,but I use the services of on Namir tech and he is absolutely brilliant,cost effective and always a dream of a job,every sax,clarinet or indeed brass instrument I have sent him,has always come back like a shining beautiful gift from heaven lol!
Seriously though,when you are buying lots of instruments,especially saxophones so really do look like it would be better off scrap-you all probably know this,but I just have to have them resurrected regardless.I have had some "animals" want for a better word and sent them for overhaul,every time they return,I am overwhelmed to say the least,and they play perfectly from top to bottom straight out of the box.
This is what I wanted to base my website on,quality vintage instruments,playable straight out of the box.How hard do you think this would be.Ok,i thought to myself,i can star the website with a mere 40 instruments-perhaps overzealous,but I kind of feel that they would all sell for some reason,so I would need another whatever amount to replace them also whilst having another lot in being overhauled.So I f I kept to the 40,them that is 120 instruments.
At the moment,I probably have around 50 ish-some are hanging on my walls around the house,relics of an age not to be forgotten-but shall still have the treatment one day! after all this what I wanted to ask you all is,do you know of any decent repairers.
I have to mention that I am used to paying around £250.00 for a full overhaul on any alto.That includes all premium leather pads-I don't do much else as already discussed in a previous post.Although I am more than delighted with my repairer,he is xxxx busy and he has his bread and butter work to do,mine are done as and when to get a competitive price.However,and this is a slow process,I have also tried to use the services of 7 other Namir techs which to put it bluntly,they're either crap or way to green.And everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt but one had an alto for 6 weeks and did not even open the box,and then said,he did not have the time.One whom does brasswind does soldering repairs in the manner of a first week college plumber,yet another woodwind tech advised,it is ok to come and drop of the sax but it may take me 6-10 weeks to get finished.I have just had an alto back,returned it after the overhaul once already,and the bottom keys stick due to rubbing on the keyguard,the G# is spongy as a cake,D is not closing unless you exert enough pressure to snap a finger and one keyguard needs some soldering.
I am also waiting for two others to come back and so I cannot comment upon those as of yet.
So my website is on hold for the meantime until one day I can get enough Saxophone stock overhauled in less than a while!I am used to around 6 weeks or more,brass is quick,even the clarinets and oboes come back much faster.
I am also an associate member of Namir but am finding it increasingly difficult to find cost effective overhauls,I have to say one other repaired an alto for me and the bill was £150.00 and I had to send it to my main repairer to put right! I have started to wonder just how many repairers whom are Namir members whom are really are any good!
Comments very welcome,I would like to know who you know,who can you trust to do a nice job as it is starting to cost me a small fortune on courier charges having to return them all the time,or as I have decided,not to and ask on here before I go any further.
Sorry I have not been on for an age,I am looking after my Mum with Cancer.
As you may remember,I am opening up a web shop selling instruments and I was hoping to have opened up 5 months ago.Unfortunately little did I realise just how long the process would take.Please tell me if I am wrong here,but I use the services of on Namir tech and he is absolutely brilliant,cost effective and always a dream of a job,every sax,clarinet or indeed brass instrument I have sent him,has always come back like a shining beautiful gift from heaven lol!
Seriously though,when you are buying lots of instruments,especially saxophones so really do look like it would be better off scrap-you all probably know this,but I just have to have them resurrected regardless.I have had some "animals" want for a better word and sent them for overhaul,every time they return,I am overwhelmed to say the least,and they play perfectly from top to bottom straight out of the box.
This is what I wanted to base my website on,quality vintage instruments,playable straight out of the box.How hard do you think this would be.Ok,i thought to myself,i can star the website with a mere 40 instruments-perhaps overzealous,but I kind of feel that they would all sell for some reason,so I would need another whatever amount to replace them also whilst having another lot in being overhauled.So I f I kept to the 40,them that is 120 instruments.
At the moment,I probably have around 50 ish-some are hanging on my walls around the house,relics of an age not to be forgotten-but shall still have the treatment one day! after all this what I wanted to ask you all is,do you know of any decent repairers.
I have to mention that I am used to paying around £250.00 for a full overhaul on any alto.That includes all premium leather pads-I don't do much else as already discussed in a previous post.Although I am more than delighted with my repairer,he is xxxx busy and he has his bread and butter work to do,mine are done as and when to get a competitive price.However,and this is a slow process,I have also tried to use the services of 7 other Namir techs which to put it bluntly,they're either crap or way to green.And everyone should be given the benefit of the doubt but one had an alto for 6 weeks and did not even open the box,and then said,he did not have the time.One whom does brasswind does soldering repairs in the manner of a first week college plumber,yet another woodwind tech advised,it is ok to come and drop of the sax but it may take me 6-10 weeks to get finished.I have just had an alto back,returned it after the overhaul once already,and the bottom keys stick due to rubbing on the keyguard,the G# is spongy as a cake,D is not closing unless you exert enough pressure to snap a finger and one keyguard needs some soldering.
I am also waiting for two others to come back and so I cannot comment upon those as of yet.
So my website is on hold for the meantime until one day I can get enough Saxophone stock overhauled in less than a while!I am used to around 6 weeks or more,brass is quick,even the clarinets and oboes come back much faster.
I am also an associate member of Namir but am finding it increasingly difficult to find cost effective overhauls,I have to say one other repaired an alto for me and the bill was £150.00 and I had to send it to my main repairer to put right! I have started to wonder just how many repairers whom are Namir members whom are really are any good!
Comments very welcome,I would like to know who you know,who can you trust to do a nice job as it is starting to cost me a small fortune on courier charges having to return them all the time,or as I have decided,not to and ask on here before I go any further.
