Alley Cat
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A recently acquired alto arrived with a pulled down neck. It's not so bad that I could live with it but it's
also not so bad that, in the right skilled hands, it could be rectified. Sadly, the last time I asked a repairer to correct a neck suffering from the same condition he simply yanked the neck up by hand with the consequence that the sides split. I could probably have achieved the same result myself.
Anyway, my question is........ has anyone on this wondrous forum actually had a pulled down neck successfully repaired by someone who has the tooling/skills and some track record and experience at performing this particular repair ?
On a less civilised saxophone forum than this one I read of techs able to restore necks using dents balls etc back to "like new" but they are all based in the US. Surely, there must be someone with similar skills here in the UK ? Any recommendtions will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
also not so bad that, in the right skilled hands, it could be rectified. Sadly, the last time I asked a repairer to correct a neck suffering from the same condition he simply yanked the neck up by hand with the consequence that the sides split. I could probably have achieved the same result myself.
Anyway, my question is........ has anyone on this wondrous forum actually had a pulled down neck successfully repaired by someone who has the tooling/skills and some track record and experience at performing this particular repair ?
On a less civilised saxophone forum than this one I read of techs able to restore necks using dents balls etc back to "like new" but they are all based in the US. Surely, there must be someone with similar skills here in the UK ? Any recommendtions will be very much appreciated. Thank you.
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