... I have had good luck washing them with toothpaste (with mild abraisives in it) and then coating for several hours inside and out with olive oil. I then...
I've had great success using (and I know some will cringe, but it works quite well) Flitz, the polishing cream. It's not terribly abrasive but works better...
For those of us not in the USA, please, what is Flitz. What kind of polishing cream is it, what is in it, what is it normally used for? With answers to these...
... polishing cream is it, what is in it, what is it normally used for? With answers to these questions, I may be able to find an Australian equivalent....
Hello all - I am new to the group and very new to mouthpiece working in general. To get started as I build up my tools I've begun working on flattening the...
... Hello Wil & welcome to the group. I am fairly new myself, but use a steel rule edge, both across and lengthwise on the table whilst holding up to the...
i have heard from a few mouthpiece refacers that getting it is desirable to have a slight concavity in the middle of the table, and that you can see this...
Many mpc makers make the center of the table slightly concave, basically, in my understanding, as a sort of insurance against warped reeds. The thought is that...
I have a 3/8" thick piece of tempered glass that I use as a work surface. I cut silicon carbide ("wet or dry") paper in half by simply tearing with a metal...
I just summarized the last 41 bore readings I took. I just used inside calipers inserted about 1/4" inside the shank end. The mean is the average for those...
Thanks Keith, I'd been wondering about that, I've been using .665 for the Saxscape pieces, based on the Babbitt/Link pieces I had measured. - - - Ken Barry ...
My understanding of the concave portion is because the MPCs are machine faced. The heat causes the area to expand, causing more material to be removed. Once...
I think the table should be perfectly flat. Ralph Morgan is of the same opinion. I think that properly finished reeds are flat and they should mate up with...
This is what I use as a straight edge to check a table's flattness: http://wttool.com/p/1289-0410 It is cheap and very well made. I highly recommend it. Brad...
... necessary, but do yorself a favor and make sure you take care of your reed too. If the table is not flat, make it so. Many of us think a mouthpiece is...
... If you dont want to fix it, market it. The concavity from mass production methods can be seen in modern Link STMs. Other makes have it too. These tables...
The thing you mentioned about the hand facers intentionally doing it is more what I was talking about vs. the uneven tables of machine-faced pieces. After...
... I noticed a concavity like this on my Ponzol soprano HR mouthpiece. It could be seen by looking at the side profile of the mouthpiece. I wrote to Peter ...
Machines are great at many things. Making a flat table on a mouthpiece is not one of them. There's no substitute for a person who knows what they are doing...
I just completed my first effort at mouthpiece work. I took a modern Otto Link soprano mouthpiece and removed the roll-over, as well as opening the chamber up...
Alan, be careful about hogging out mouthpieces, particularly sopranos. If you get the chamber too large it will cause you to have to push the mouthpiece to...
I've been noticing that my Vandoren V12 Clarinet reeds are quite porous. I can almost breathe through the fibers in a 3-1/2 reed. So, there's a bit of ...
I didn't want to hijack Alan's thread, but it was Paul's answer to him that made me wonder... If I compare a buescher soprano piece to a modern c*, i can see...
... Link STMs. ... should be ... It could ... to Peter ... ************************************************************************** The idea that the hollow...
To answer Matthew's questions: 1. This is sometimes necessary with vintage instruments where modern mouthpieces will not play with good intonation. 2. There...
As soon as you get some saliva and condensation in there it'll seal up... hah! Paul Bob Phillips <rwphillipsidaho@...> wrote: I've been noticing that my...
I recently greatly improved a HR link 8 by doing nothing apart from flattening the table and *barely* retouching the rails. The "hollow" as you're calling it...
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