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Re: Padding Woes

Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-07-16 17:14
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The inside bevel isn't critical, though it does provide a wider diameter bedplace crown for the pad to seat onto once cut. You can make a tapered metal or hardwood tool faced with emery paper to cut this internal taper with. You are effectively shortening the length of the tonehole when countersinking the inside of the bedplace, but not enough to warrant any concern unless it's been overdone.

Countersinking tools are fairly easy to come by and aren't all that expensive - they're for countersinking screw heads into wood, metal, etc. and have several cutting edges on them that can be sharpened with a small sharpening stone or diamond file, but use it by hand instead of mounted in an electric drill as you'll have more control of it.

When rebuilding clarinets I use the tonehole toppers and countersinking tools to tidy up chipped toneholes (the chips/pores filled in with superglue) so I can use cork pads that have to seat perfectly onto the bedplace.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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