Klarinet Archive - Posting 000162.txt from 2004/01

From: "Steve Fowler" <steve@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re Cracks, cracks
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:36:22 -0500

Keith.

I'm sorry to have misled you. A carbon fiber "ribbon" that has been dipped
into epoxy is wrapped around the circumference of the instrument within a
slot cut into the body. Epoxy is then used to fill the rest of the slot and
is finished off to look like the rest of the wood.

I hope that helps you.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith [mailto:100012.1302@-----.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:42 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re Cracks, cracks

Thanks Forest, Steve, and others who have commented on the carbon fiber
method.

I have one supplementary: your post refers to a complete band around the
circumference of the instrument. Steve Fowler's seems to imply that shorter
segments are used, rather like the length of pins but on the surface. Is
this a different method or have I misunderstood? Or is it a variant to use
when a complete band would have to go through a tone hole?

Keith Bowen

> Keith,
>
> Carbon fiber, as you know, is not very elastic...but very strong. I
> believe that many of the good repair supply vendors have the carbon
> fiber thread available. I've seen carbon fiber bands done with such
> finesse and craftsmanship, that it is almost impossible to find the
> band.
> Even when
> looking carefully at the clarinet.
>
> The first time I observed this process was in the Libertyville
> distribution point for Buffet instruments (now in California).
> Francois Kloc introduced me to his head technician on one of my trips
> to Libertyville.
> He was in the
> process of repairing a local professional player's clarinet using the
> carbon thread. I've seen this technique used several times now.
> Several repair
> people tell me that it works very well on stubborn cracks that resist
> successful pinning.
>
> Forest Aten

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