Nail Buffer: Friend or Foe?

[jicaino]

made them myself. I will dig them out of the shop today and take some pictures. I'm not doing any pen or nib work this days, I'm VERY busy with the saxophones and clarinets...

 

In fact I have a friend in Belgium that's waiting for me to go get some tooling for him next week is THE time, I promise...! AK is really busy too!

 

Trevor: burnishers: old files completely smoothened up and mirror polished (pictures in order) and or speciality steel rods. I bought all the stock and will be nah, I pop open old floppy drives and the head is guided by 2 or more rods that are excellent for tine burnishing. If you want something a little bit larger you can destroy a CDROM unit. Plus you're doing the world a favor getting rid of your share of tech garbage. I have a closet full of old computers screws and nuts.... (the nutsy is me!) But I don't hesitate in ridgina new burnisher for any particular challenge.

 

I gotta show you guys some pictures of my sax work...

[Lloyd]

I gotta show you guys some pictures of my sax work...

PLEASE!!!! (Ex-sax player who longs for time to pick up his horns- a Tenor MarkVI and a Soprano MarkVI)

[QM2]

Juan, that is an amazing diagram!

 

of course, there is no way I will be able to follow it; I am simply not skillful in this kind of work.

But maybe my husband can do it -- I will try to convince him to give it a try.

 

Thanks for taking the time to contribute this!

QM2

[jicaino]

sorry guys, took the road and a week and forgot to visit the shop before departing. (yeah, right! )

 

in the meantime, this is my kind of thing, really problematic overhauling of vintage american saxophones and clarinet. If you twist my arm I might do a selmer or other vintage french horn, but not my cup of tea.

 

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galelksae.htm Elkhart (conn stencil)

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galelksae.htm Buescher straight soprano sax

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/224ktruetonealto.htm pristine buescher's alto (factory assembled, never disassembled until I layed hands over her)

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/latetruetone.htm another "virgin" buescher alto. Late true tone

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galssbae.htm pristine Selmer Super Action Alto (pre MkVI series, some people call this a "super balanced" but the factory name was SUPER ACTION)

 

[fountainbel]

I'm not at all familiar with saxophones & clarinets - although Adholphe Sax was a Belgian -but it seems to me there is a tremendious amount of experience & know-how involved in repairing & finetuning these beautifull instruments !

Congratulations Juan, I'll better stick to vintage fountain pens !

Francis

 

 

 

 

sorry guys, took the road and a week and forgot to visit the shop before departing. (yeah, right! )

 

in the meantime, this is my kind of thing, really problematic overhauling of vintage american saxophones and clarinet. If you twist my arm I might do a selmer or other vintage french horn, but not my cup of tea.

 

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galelksae.htm Elkhart (conn stencil)

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galelksae.htm Buescher straight soprano sax

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/224ktruetonealto.htm pristine buescher's alto (factory assembled, never disassembled until I layed hands over her)

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/latetruetone.htm another "virgin" buescher alto. Late true tone

http://www.jicaino.com.ar/galssbae.htm pristine Selmer Super Action Alto (pre MkVI series, some people call this a "super balanced" but the factory name was SUPER ACTION)