Hi,

I described in a recent post the behaviour of this piece.
It has a well balanced tone at lowish pressure levels but as soon as I push more air
through the sound becomes unpleasantly thinnish, bright and nasal.
I've just had a closer look and am wondering if someone has had a go at refacing,
About 5mm from the tip end of the rails I can see a "sudden" bend, as though someone may 
have tried to increase the lay.
In other words the rails don't smoothly curve right to the tip of the piece. This is fairly subtle; 
only visible in the right light. 
The baffle is very similar to that of my 8* metal Link.

Regards,
David

Have you measured the facing curve?  That should reveal whether there
are any flat spots or unevenness in the curve.

Regards,
Andrew


--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, "bowaterd" <davebow@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I described in a recent post the behaviour of this piece.
> It has a well balanced tone at lowish pressure levels but as soon as
I push more air
> through the sound becomes unpleasantly thinnish, bright and nasal.
> I've just had a closer look and am wondering if someone has had a go
at refacing,
> About 5mm from the tip end of the rails I can see a "sudden" bend,
as though someone may 
> have tried to increase the lay.
> In other words the rails don't smoothly curve right to the tip of
the piece. This is fairly subtle; 
> only visible in the right light. 
> The baffle is very similar to that of my 8* metal Link.
> 
> Regards,
> David
>

That will certainly cause a problem.  Have you smoothed the "kink" in the rails yet?
   
  Paul

bowaterd <davebow@...> wrote:
          Hi,

I described in a recent post the behaviour of this piece.
It has a well balanced tone at lowish pressure levels but as soon as I push more air
through the sound becomes unpleasantly thinnish, bright and nasal.
I've just had a closer look and am wondering if someone has had a go at refacing,
About 5mm from the tip end of the rails I can see a "sudden" bend, as though someone may 
have tried to increase the lay.
In other words the rails don't smoothly curve right to the tip of the piece. This is fairly subtle; 
only visible in the right light. 
The baffle is very similar to that of my 8* metal Link.

Regards,
David



                         


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Brian Powell from Morgan has just offered to look at it so I think  
I'll leave it to him.

David

On 3/03/2008, at 4:38 PM, Paul C. wrote:

>
> That will certainly cause a problem.  Have you smoothed the "kink"  
> in the rails yet?
>
> Paul
>
> bowaterd <davebow@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I described in a recent post the behaviour of this piece.
> It has a well balanced tone at lowish pressure levels but as soon  
> as I push more air
> through the sound becomes unpleasantly thinnish, bright and nasal.
> I've just had a closer look and am wondering if someone has had a  
> go at refacing,
> About 5mm from the tip end of the rails I can see a "sudden" bend,  
> as though someone may
> have tried to increase the lay.
> In other words the rails don't smoothly curve right to the tip of  
> the piece. This is fairly subtle;
> only visible in the right light.
> The baffle is very similar to that of my 8* metal Link.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>
>
>
> Link to Paul's articles from Main page of "Saxgourmet":
> http://www.saxgourmet.com
> Listen to Paul's MP3's and view saxophone photos at:
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/tenorman1952
>
> Paul Coats is the sole US importer of SAXRAX products from
> http://www.saxrax.com
> For SAXRAX products, email Paul at saxraxus@...
>
> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
>
>