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Re: How to repair chip in crystal tip?

Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-12-07 22:27

Jim - If CG's link doesn't get you there, try"MouthpieceWork@ Yahoogroups. com" . Its a quite-tech group of mp [facing] workers, more sax than clarinet, so little may result re: our glasses. I once broke [severely] a VG glass mp, took the pieces to our [chem] laboratory expert glass blower, who said "no can do", more? because it was a "high lead glass" than the time needed to put Humpty-Dumpty back together. I also [somehow] put a 1 mm dia chip in another glass's table at the "wind-cut" which I "fixed" with a drop of white epoxy, shaving it to flat with the table. It has held in with playing and is good as new, IMHO. A chip in tip sounds formidable, if a "gluing-in" followed by refacing the repaired area isn't satisfactory, a "melting-in" MIGHT work, again with a slight reface. Glass repair may get expensive! At this time a Sel glass #3 is bid up to $52 on EBAY [delete if not OK, GBK/Mark] so look at options. Rots of Ruck, Verbose, again !! Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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