Methods From The Bench: Woodwind Tips & Tricks

Sixty ideas to save you time, improve your results, and make you money!

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Craft Sticks And Felt For Tipping Cups

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Clarinet

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Sax

Baking Soda For Loose Clarinet Posts

Finish Sax Tone Holes With Aluminum Foil

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Sticky Pads Procedures

1. BG pull (JLS new)
2. Pad Juice 1 oz. w/applicator strips (JLS #113025)
3. Tarnish strip 8 pack (JLS #113076)
4. Pad Guard spray (JLS #135001)

Clarinet

Check Clarinet Chimneys Underwater With MAG

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The Mag Machine III (JLS #236073).

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Flute

Installing A High E Facilitator

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Piccolo

High E Facilitator Assortment (JLS 800044), Body Mandrel

(JLS 242009), Epoxy (JLS 105104)

Padding

Piccolo Leak Light Russell (JLS 236027 & 236029) LED (JLS 236071),
Votaw Pad Cup Heater (JLS 248013).

Sax

Neck Extension

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Headless Post Alignment Screws

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Clarinet

Graphite Banding

Reinforce thin wall areas

Reinforce sockets with hairline cracks
Repair cracks in clarinets, oboes
Reinforce tenons on clarinets (under the cork)
Reinforce tenons on bassoons (under the string)
Wont open back up like pinning, CA glues, or fillers.
Wont compress the bore like metal bands

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Graphite (JLS 115001), Epoxy (JLS 105104).

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Flute

Making Box Round

Plug Gauges (JLS 245016 etc)

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Sax

Rounding Treatment On Adjust Screw Bumpers

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1/8 Neoprene Cord (JLS 450017).

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Blue Painters Tape

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Tape over engraving. Hold parts temporarily to align. Tape off when gluing a neck cork. Mask off
parts to buff. Spot Buffing For Sax Guard Feet. When burnishing/sanding a headjoint tenon.

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Clarinet and Sax Synthetic Joint And Neck Corks

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Synthetic Cork Strips (JLS 700322-700326). Neck Cork (JLS 700342).

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Flute

Resizing Bushings

Flute Grommet Plate (JLS 227075), French Chimney Resizer (JLS 227013).

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Sax

Making And Using Templates.

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Packing Tape On The Back Of Abrasive Paper

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Clarinet

Clarinet Thumb Rest Broken Hole Redrilling

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Flute

(JLS - coming soon)

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Copper Foil Headjoint & Neck Fitting

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Copper Headjoint Fitting Strips (JLS 101068)

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Sax

Adding More Glue Under Sax Pad With Disk

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Glue Disks (JLS 800017)

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Clarinet

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Try Screws

Premade Tone Holes Hard Rubber Tone Hole

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Flute

Fitting The C Key Rod

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(JLS - new)

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Sax

Extract Broken Neck Screw Power drill and bit.

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Reference Pad, Reference Pad Leaks With Sharpie

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Clarinet

Sharpie Pen (JLS 123016).

Butt End Joint Cork And Sax Neck Cork

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Flute

Dent Removal

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B Hammer (JLS 230002), Body Mandrel (JLS 242009), Head Mandrel (JLS 242005).

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Sax

Raising Saxophone Tone Holes

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(JLS - new)

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Sax

Silver Plated Horns: Spray On Lacquer,

Do Dent Work, Strip. Let the lacquer take
the abuse-not the silver finish.

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Spray Lacquer (JLS 110051),.

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Two Block Method For Straightening Short Steels

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Clarinet

Bench Block (JLS 201003).

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Cut Tenon Cork Strips

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Sheet Cork Cutter (JLS 201078).

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Flute

Different Cork Glue Up Processes

1. Paint Both, Wait, Apply.
2. Prepare Cork Heat Key, Apply.
3. Prepare Cork, Heat and Paint Key, Apply.

Align Bent Body

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Clarinet

Flute Body Mandrel (JLS 242009),

Rawhide Mallet (JLS 230010).

Dressing Clarinet Tone Holes

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Interior Tone Hole Facers (JLS 248024H)

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Flute

Felting Keys

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Q Felt Assortment (JLS 800043),

Georges Glue Stick (JLS 105114).

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Flute

Solder Lip Plate W/Solder Tape

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Soldering Tape (JLS 113004)

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Sax

Sealing Bell To Body Joints

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Key Extension Premade

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Key Extension (JLS new)

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Clarinet

Simple Suction Tester

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Using two (JLS #236020) neoprene plugs with center hole, glue the two large ends together with
thick CA glue (JLS #105084). Use the accelerator (JLS #105108) so that the CA glue sets up well.

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Flute

Removing Bushings

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Flute Pad Cup Collars (JLS 227070), Bushing Remover/Pad Slick (JLS 227086).

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Magnification

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Magna Visor (JLS 201021).

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Clarinet

Tenon Sleeving

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Premade Tenon Sleeve (JLS new).

Flute Solder Box

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Sax

Align Bent Bell

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Sax

Align Bent Body

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Saxophone Neck and Receiver Plug

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Piccolo

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Padding First-Corks Second

Reaming Spring Holes

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Clarinet

Tightening Rings

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Sax

Soldering Tone Hole In Place

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Sax

Use Duco On Felts

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Sax

Duco Cement (JLS 105009).

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Use Long Rollers And Cut Down

Sax

Vinegar For Cleaning Mouthpieces

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Sax

Template For Cutting Neck Corks

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Sax

Tone Hole Files Rounded

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Respringing Tips

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Large Handle Pin Vice (JLS 201027)

Use Long Rods And Cut Down

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Clarinet

Servicing LH Connector Pins

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Clarinet Silencer Shim (JLS 580001)

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Sax

Bond 1/64 To Thin Leather

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Sax

Leather (JLS 403023)

Cork (JLS 40041-1/64).

Teflon Silencers On Selmer Side Key Connectors

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Sax

Holding Saxophone Posts In Place While Soldering

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Post Soldering Fixtures (JLS new).

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