Saxophones Pork Tales: Saxophone Repair DIY Adventures.

Life around the barn.

Tales from a pig that likes to stick his nose into everything.

Paint that S. How difficult could it be ?

1) Search the net.
2) Find the color.
3) Order color.
4) Study task on University of YouTube, aka; For destruction by DYI presented by pro tech.

Do the cleaning & prep.

Paint and cleanup / detail the edges with hard cotton swabs. Sounds easy……

Yeah tha guy Matt makes it look easy.
Anyone remember your first experience cooking bacon crispy while still in the frying pan !

 

[Tuppertn]

I burned all mine up when I did the Buescher 157. Haven't had the need of it since. I don't delacquer anything anymore unless it's end-stage, ugly red underneath or a relac to begin with.

The more you dilute it the longer the reaction takes. I did a 1:100 dilution because my thought was to watch it slowly develop over several minutes until it reached the color I wanted. On a small part like this you could probably dilute it 1:1 or 1:2, get a deep color in a few seconds then buff it back to a lighter shade with 0000 steel wool.

 

[PigSquealer]

I let the acetone air dry then put the horn in my oven at 300F for 20 minutes.

I’m surprised it didn’t self disassemble. That’s in range of solder melting. 😬

 

[Tuppertn]

I’m surprised it didn’t self disassemble. That’s in range of solder melting. 😬

This is reaching back a ways into the memory cobwebs, but I seem to remember looking it up and finding something like 350F for the (likely) lead-based solder they used.

At the time I was also doing some Cerakote projects for fun and that's the temperature that is recommended to liquify and "bake-out" any residual oils trapped in the pores of the metal before application. I was experimenting.