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 !

 

[PigSquealer]

Nice - thanks for including your mistakes, it is encouraging 🙂 I find it quite hard to be as patient with contact cement as one is meant to be, regarding letting it set for what seems like a very long time before bringing the pieces together.

In part my mistake was assembling whilst still wet. My thought was to have a bit more time to work / reposition the material before the glue set. I also used two layers of fabric to make the feel more plush.
Hot melt glue doesn’t stick at all. In this thread I did a bunch of glue testing. Assembly wet was not one of them.
Saxophones - Case refurbishment

I always try to think of some other task to do when setting aside contact cement to dry. A bit difficult when the only task is replacing a neck cork...

I set a timer. Then read & reply to emails or posts here. Time flys when you’re having fun.

 

[PigSquealer]

Thank you all above for chiming in on tape use / options. Obviously we have all had good and bad experiences with a simple task and product. Especially when using the cheap stuff for a one minute job. A tape I wouldn’t leave on for more than a few hours at most.

Pro tip. There are many kinds of masking tape. Over here we have something called Frog Tape, which is designed for 'delicate surfaces'. It's very different to the bog-standard beige stuff.
Treat yourself.

Yes I’m familiar with Frog Tape. Thanks for mentioning the product. Still I’m cautious. The yellow is handy to prevent chips & scratches while assembling. The blue is more rugged but a pain to peel off in tight spaces. Worth every penny.

For actual paint masking, you can get a more expensive version (maybe that is frog tape). It seems to be more sticky than the standard beige tape, but is less prone to pulling off whatever paint surface it was sticking to. Even better, you can actually reuse it several times as it comes off easily without tearing, so the extra price per roll is worth it for big jobs.

Great product that saves time and yields a professional look. The different applications are listed in link below.

Why FrogTape

PaintBlock® Technology combines with a high-performance adhesive system to deliver painter's tapes that block paint bleed and instantly stick to your…

www.frogtape.com

The beige tape is my general utility tape just above my bench.

 

[mark_addy]

Thank you all above for chiming in on tape use / options. Obviously we have all had good and bad experiences with a simple task and product. Especially when using the cheap stuff for a one minute job. A tape I wouldn’t leave on for more than a few hours at most.

Yes I’m familiar with Frog Tape. Thanks for mentioning the product. Still I’m cautious. The yellow is handy to prevent chips & scratches while assembling. The blue is more rugged but a pain to peel off in tight spaces. Worth every penny.
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Great product that saves time and yields a professional look. The different applications are listed in link below.

Why FrogTape

PaintBlock® Technology combines with a high-performance adhesive system to deliver painter's tapes that block paint bleed and instantly stick to your…

www.frogtape.com

The beige tape is my general utility tape just above my bench.
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That's not something I expected to see in the USA. No longer a BMC 'A' series in there - what is it? 35-ish years ago I had the van version - it was very knackered and did 500 miles on a gallon of oil. After an engine swap (I was very broke and bought an engine and box off a breaker for a hundred quid) it did maybe 700 🙂

 

[PigSquealer]

That's not something I expected to see in the USA. No longer a BMC 'A' series in there - what is it?

Full body off restoration. Front clip. All new wood from disassembled UK kit.
Original right side drive Traveller. Second owner. I’ve known him since 1972. My first vehicle was a 1961 Morris truck purchased in April of ‘73. I’ve owned several Morris’s and Austin Healeys. Multiple Brit motorcycles. I currently have a ‘61 Matchless and a ‘69 TR6R outfit.
I also rebuilt the 1098cc A motor for the Traveller.

OE wheels and hubcaps have been sourced since this picture was taken.

 

[mark_addy]

Very nice - a lot of work gone in there. The rocker box threw me - a pressed steel thing here normally, and the breather came off a plate with a tube welded into it on the pushrod chest. And twin SUs off...some kind of MG, I would guess? My oil problems were partly burning (new rings fitted to not much avail) but mostly running past that funny scroll thing they put on the rear main bearing instead of an oil seal, and out the bottom of the bell housing (where BMC handily provide a hole for such an event so you don't oil up the clutch 🙂 ). It breathed so hard that if you connected the breather to inlet stub vacuum it p*ssed less oil but wouldn't tick over! Happy days.

 

[PigSquealer]

Happy Monday.
Lacquer over patina looks cool on this nice old Kolhert 57. This tenor plays really well too. I actually like this better than a King Super 20 I did last year. Would be interesting to hear them side by side.

 

[Tuppertn]

Happy Monday.
Lacquer over patina looks cool on this nice old Kolhert 57. This tenor plays really well too. I actually like this better than a King Super 20 I did last year. Would be interesting to hear them side by side.

Love it! So much character. Super cool horn. I'm so jealous of whoever owns that one.

Oh, wait...

 

[PigSquealer]

Love it! So much character. Super cool horn. I'm so jealous of whoever owns that one.

Oh, wait...

This horn lives for long tones. It would fit your 4 bpm playing.

Oh, wait….my dialup box has a fax incoming with delivery instructions. Looks like I’m shipping by mule, but I don’t know where yet? It’s still printing 🤣🐌🐌🐌

 

[Keshr]

Saw this in a shop recently. Not for sale, it’s their counter bell.

 

[peedeeblues]

PigSquealer could make one of those!

 

[PigSquealer]

I had the strangest dream last night….

 

[peedeeblues]

I knewww it!!

 

[Woodpad]

Happy Monday.
Lacquer over patina looks cool on this nice old Kolhert 57. This tenor plays really well too. I actually like this better than a King Super 20 I did last year. Would be interesting to hear them side by side.

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Looking at the crook it reminds me of one tenor in storage that is possibly a Kolhert. Picking up the neck of that instrument the moon plate looks simular, but the swann neck curve is different. When you place the tenon flat on the floor the cork is only 6 mm above the floor. That is more like the curve of the king super 20 crook. The crook in the picture looks like all of the cork is above the top of the tenon.

 

[PigSquealer]

Looking at the crook it reminds me of one tenor in storage that is possibly a Kolhert. Picking up the neck of that instrument the moon plate looks simular, but the swann neck curve is different. When you place the tenon flat on the floor the cork is only 6 mm above the floor. That is more like the curve of the king super 20 crook. The crook in the picture looks like all of the cork is above the top of the tenon.

You may have a Buescher tenor or C melody.

I didn’t take a picture straight on and I’ve just shipped it out.
The cork end of this Kolhert 57 definitely runs upwards.

A Buescher C Mel is slightly upwards. The cork area is a straight barrel, no taper.

@LostCircuits may own a Buescher tenor example with the man on moon brace to share pic of ?

 

[Tuppertn]

Here's one I took for a thread on the other forum...

 

[LostCircuits]

You may have a Buscher tenor or C melody.

I didn’t take a picture straight on and I’ve just shipped it out.
The cork end of this Kolhert 57 definitely runs upwards.
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A Buscher C Mel is slightly upwards. The cork area is a straight barrel, no taper.
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@LostCircuits may own a Buescher tenor example with the man on moon brace to share pic of ?

I have to look for it, rhough

 

[Woodpad]

You may have a Buescher tenor or C melody.

I didn’t take a picture straight on and I’ve just shipped it out.
The cork end of this Kolhert 57 definitely runs upwards.
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A Buescher C Mel is slightly upwards. The cork area is a straight barrel, no taper.


@LostCircuits may own a Buescher tenor example with the man on moon brace to share pic of ?

Only the moon figure looks similar. The octave key with a large ring is different. So I dug up the body and there is only a serial number (218150) on it. The octave mechanism is different, it is a clapper with wire guards and the bell body brace is a single rod. It looks like a much older instrument so I will take some pictures and move it to another thread. Mayby ad also an only crooks thread.

 

[LostCircuits]

1924 TT tenor Saltshaker neck. Tapered tip and perfectly horizontal angle relative to the tenon.

 

[Tuppertn]

The Kohlert 57 tenor that's been in The Barn since post #304 came home yesterday. I spend a couple of enjoyable hours with it yesterday and a couple more today getting to know it again.


Turns out our Warrior Poet Pig is also a bit of a wizard.

I gave him a chunk of lead and he made some gold.

It plays perfectly, of course...well, you know, as well as its owner can manage. I mean, everything is tight and smooth. The neck fit is nothing short of spectacular. It's like a new horn! Another fabulous horn that I don't deserve, but I'm really enjoying your work, Sir Pig. Thank you!!



Now, I have one last thing to say about that...

 

[Colin the Bear]

What's Dr. Zephram Cochrane doing with that 🐷? 🤔