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]

New tool arrived today. Will be interesting to see how these work compared to rubber bands.

 

[LostCircuits]

Medieval torture instruments .... wait, sorry, the sax wasn't invented until 1849, so not really medieval ...

 

[PigSquealer]

Medieval torture instruments .... wait, sorry, the sax wasn't invented until 1849, so not really medieval ...

Don’t worry. I keep up to date at my local hangout.

Museum of Death in the Press

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[PigSquealer]

Another tool I made. A die holder for rivet splitting installation.
1/2” HSS drill bit, 5/8” deep. Material was hardened. Go slow and keep the cutting lubricant on. Look at the swarf. The long ribbons were the soft areas. The extra fine chips being the hard steel.

 

[PigSquealer]

Nothing much happened today.

1941 Tenor. Funky art. I guess some Dude named Martin had a thing for Cats that surfed 🏄

Clean your hardware including the screw slots !

 

[kamak]

Nothing much happened today.
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1941 Tenor. Funky art. I guess some Dude named Martin had a thing for Cats that surfed 🏄
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Clean your hardware including the screw slots !
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Oh that's going to be wonderful when your done with it!

 

[Tuppertn]

1941 Tenor. Funky art. I guess some Dude named Martin had a thing for Cats that surfed 🏄

Happiness isn't happiness without a surfing cat.

Did you end up having to make a new rod screw for the octave key?

 

[Targa]

Happiness isn't happiness without a surfing cat.

Did you end up having to make a new rod screw for the octave key?

The only surfing any self respecting cat does is on the sofa, 18 hours a day.

 

[PigSquealer]

Happiness isn't happiness without a surfing cat.

Did you end up having to make a new rod screw for the octave key?

Surfiing Cats. I guess that’s a thing
No, I got it all sorted out😉 Just a little bent was all. It’s now smooth as a greased pig 🐖.

 

[thomsax]

Nothing much happened today.
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Clean your hardware including the screw slots !
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Great saxes. Some saxes made/designed in the 30's were the peak of saxophone manufactoring. "The Martin" saxes are good but .....

 

[arbin]

Great saxes. Some saxes made/designed in the 30's were the peak of saxophone manufactoring. "The Martin" saxes are good but .....

…what?

 

[Woodpad]

"The Martin" saxes are good but .....

…what?

You can't crucify a Martin Medalist?

 

[PigSquealer]

You can't crucify a Martin Medalist?

If you send me one I can test the possibility. Fair warning, this may take a few years or 86.

 

[PigSquealer]

"The Martin" saxes are good but .....

…..the Committee 1, 2 & 3 are progressively some of the best around. Why ? It’s in the name. The Committee was designed by an “Committee” of Pro players, Engineers and People from the factory.
Take 100 Martins and 100 from Conn, any model(s) or any year from 1920 to 1950.
I’ve yet to find ANY production flaw in a Martin saxophone. The craftsmanship quality is amazing.
I’ve yet to find a Conn without any flaws. Sometimes I wonder if the company allowed drinking alcohol on the job.

In regards to playing. No brand is comparable to another.

 

[Tuppertn]

…..the Committee 1, 2 & 3 are progressively some of the best around. Why ? It’s in the name. The Committee was designed by an “Committee” of Pro players, Engineers and People from the factory.
Take 100 Martins and 100 from Conn, any model(s) or any year from 1920 to 1950.
I’ve yet to find ANY production flaw in a Martin saxophone. The craftsmanship quality is amazing.
I’ve yet to find a Conn without any flaws. Sometimes I wonder if the company allowed drinking alcohol on the job.

In regards to playing. No brand is comparable to another.

That's why a new Martin came with a 50-year factory warranty--50 years! No manufacturer in today's world would even consider such a thing.

 

[Targa]

That's why a new Martin came with a 50-year factory warranty--50 years! No manufacturer in today's world would even consider such a thing.

Then why shouldn’t it last 50 or more years; the warranty probably excluded ‘natural wear’ which would include anything which could go wrong.

 

[Stephen Howard]

I do like Martins. Played a bari for years and was sorely tempted, twice, by a tenor.
The soldered toneholes are an expensive nuisance when they start to give way - and the action's a touch on the clunky side compared with modern horns...but the Martin tone is something else.
But the worst of it is that back in the 70s/80s in the UK you almost couldn't give them away. I paid £120 for my bari and bought a few altos and tenors for doing up and selling for less than £50 a pop.
Wish I had a cupboard-full of them now...

 

[turf3]

…..the Committee 1, 2 & 3 are progressively some of the best around. Why ? It’s in the name. The Committee was designed by an “Committee” of Pro players, Engineers and People from the factory.
Take 100 Martins and 100 from Conn, any model(s) or any year from 1920 to 1950.
I’ve yet to find ANY production flaw in a Martin saxophone. The craftsmanship quality is amazing.
I’ve yet to find a Conn without any flaws. Sometimes I wonder if the company allowed drinking alcohol on the job.

In regards to playing. No brand is comparable to another.

As I've often said, Conn's motto seems to have been "bring on the string and sealing wax!" whereas Martins always give the impression of well made precision machinery. The Conns WORK dandy but one sometimes wonders how.

ALLOWED drinking on the job? I think it was mandatory!

 

[Tuppertn]

Then why shouldn’t it last 50 or more years; the warranty probably excluded ‘natural wear’ which would include anything which could go wrong.

Then why does Yamaha only give you 5 years?

 

[turf3]

Then why does Yamaha only give you 5 years?

Because they sell all they make with a 5 year warranty.

Don't mistake the length of a warranty for long term durability test results.