Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-12-14 04:56
Hmmm. I've never burned the rubber or my finger. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong since I don't have people playing my mouthpieces all around the world? (J\K in good fun!).
I still prefer not to heat up the mouthpiece, even from that far away, for that long. Usually dents are small and the flame can be very accurate so you're only heating up what needs to be heated. I personally find no need to attach either the lighter or mouthpiece to anything for support in this process.
With a lighter I can make the flame go out in a fraction of a second if I want. I can also move the mouthpiece away if I need to. The reality is most dents take so little time to take out that a few passes over the dent, maybe 3 or 4, in a matter of a few seconds will do all the work necessary and not burn the mouthpiece or anything else. If your finger starts burning, you can always let the flame go out. A torch is not so forgiving =)
Although I've done this many times, I know many players who know relatively nothing about mouthpieces and have performed this procedure without even consulting a technician and had great success.
Here's the point where I could name-drop professionals (mouthpiece professionals) who use lighters to fix mouthpieces all the time successfully. I've never seen, myself or others, anyone having burned a mouthpiece, or a finger for that matter, in this process.
If your way works well for you skygardener, keep it up. In a post a few up in the thread you said you've used a lighter successfully. I'm just saying it's easier than a blow-torch or candle and has been 100% successful for me, for several top notch professional mouthpiece makers, all the way down to people who just try it to see if it will do anything.
To each their own for these tricks of the trade. To me it's a matter of feel. I can feel where the mouthpiece and lighter are just the same as I know where the mouthpiece is on a piece of sandpaper when doing facing work.
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