Klarinet Archive - Posting 000295.txt from 2005/05

From: "Steve White" <bass.clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mouthpieces - Chedeville
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:46:47 -0400

Most likely, this depends on the type on tooling you are talking about. If you
are going to develop a mold to use in a production setting for what may be
thousands of mouthpieces, the $24,000 figure sounds right. The mold will
probably be built out of fairly stout materials - like high carbon steel or at
least tool steel. A one-off or very limited production (i.e. not 'thousands')
mold can most likely be made for less because of a lesser material used.

Cheers

Steve White

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Wakeling [mailto:joseph.wakeling@-----.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:20 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpieces - Chedeville

GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> As a mouthpiece craftsman, you must work with the blanks that are
> produced. That is, unless you have your own molding operation and a
> factory to pour the rubber into the molds, de-mold them, and vulcanize
> them and put a preliminary facing on them. We all know that Clark
> Fobes, Greg Smith, Richard Hawkins, etc etc, etc., do not have such a
> factory.

I don't believe the costs need necessarily be as high as you suggest.
Ed Pillinger in the UK makes his own mouthpieces from scratch and even
offers the possibility of copying existing mouthpieces that are not
subject to patent or copyright. I'm guessing he makes his own moulds....

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