Welcome to Brass Lab!!

So I've switched sides for the remainder of the semester!!

We've started buffing, and it's getting more comfortable:

Trombone bell:

Trumpet Bell:

And we started soft soldering:

A few other things I have in the works:

-Overhauling my personal horn: Holton Merker-Matic H276

-Creating a "hybrid" instrument I've named "Mello-Horn"

Stay tuned for updates about those in a separate post.

Also:
Check out the Trumpet and Custom Tools pages for updates.

Flute-tastic!

On Friday I finished my Project Flute.  It came out pretty well - check the Flute page for the pictures.  We will be switching labs on Monday - I'm going to miss the Wood wind Lab. In other news I've been working on my own 1930's stencil Clarinet I bought a few months ago.  It's currently getting re-oiled over the weekend.  I will have pictures and updates soon about it. 

Weekly, Weekend Update.

Got a lot of work done this week.  Still have a lot to do on my Flute, but if you head over there you can see my progress, LOTS of pictures :)  Also this Friday was a "Lathe Project" Friday so I will update my custom tools page later next week with pictures of the fruits of my labor.

Weekend Update..

Uploaded a few pictures, check out the Custom Tools and Clarinet Tabs.  I am also starting on Flute on Monday!!

I have conquered the Clarinet!!!

I shall post pictures later, but today at the end of class I have finally finished my project misery stick Clarinet.  I even got to play test it and everything seems to be in working order.  The real test is when I get it inspected.  Now on to Flute!!

Time for an update!!

School has been going really well.  I am well into my "project" Clarinet which is an actual clarinet that will be going back to a company to sell! A bit scary, but very exciting.  Updates and pictures are on the Clarinet page. I am also going to be starting to work on my old Guy Humphrey stencil Clarinet I picked up at the local antique shop, so stay tuned for those updates.  I also learned how to silver solder and buff in the same project.  We made a brass and nickel "E" Here are a few pictures:

Remembered to bring my camera!!

Took my camera to school today, so I will be uploading pictures of the Clarinet I started working on.  Check out the Clarinet page for those, I also took a picture of my work space :)

Welcome to Repair School!!!!

It's currently the third day of class at MSC Southeast Tech and I am extremely excited to get into things!  We have made a few tools already and tomorrow we start tearing apart our misery sticks....uh I mean Clarinets.

I am embarking on a comprehensive, nine-month study of the repair of woodwind and brasswind instruments.   I will periodically update my progress with blogs and pictures from class, because who doesn't love pictures?  Each project instrument will have their own page with information of what I fixed and, of course, a myriad of detailed pictures!!