Tip Top Oboes

This is that same oboe from my last post. It had a few more surprises for me after I did the inserts and pinning.

There was a crack running through the half hole and middle c tone holes. I did a couple inserts and a pin in between. I thouit was cool how I barely knicked the side of a previous pin when I milled out the hole. You can see it in the pictures.

Complete repad. Always check suction. Even if its plastic, something can be leaking!

Installing a body lock on this GM Bundy Bassoon, four holes to mount with the Fox gaurd screws and a new hole in the wing joint to line up properly with the shaft. Both ends of the long joint also had severe cracking in the tenons.

This Fox Maplewood sat in the closet, looked like it came from Jurassic Park.

This clarinwt waa dropped and had some bent/binding keys. It also had a broken pin on the pinky levers. I could have sworn I had some of those nylon pins lying around somewhere, but couldn't find them. Maybe I already used them all, so I ended up just making one. It was kinda fun actually. Never did that before.

I thought it would be cool to show you guys how a pin looks from the inside. The trills on this Loree AND octaves had cracks. I milled the trill tone holes to where it just started cutting the pin, and didn't want to go further for fear compromising the integrity of the pin. With the depth of where the pin was placed, it's deep enough at this point to add inserts. I add some super glue to the crack inside the cutout area before inserting as well.

Whoever did the previous pinning work between the trills was spot on, couldn't have been more centered. I could have milled out a smaller diameter of the tone hole in order to avoid hitting the pin, but I like to mill out the entire area of the tone hole. You eliminate more of the crack that way.