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Re: Tips on preventing cracks?

Author: kdk
Date: 2014-04-07 02:05

cyclopathic wrote:

> @Karl
>
> I think we have a religious war on hands?

I certainly hope it doesn't comes to that level of violence or global consequence. I don't feel that kind of zeal about this. I was merely fulfilling Mark's 4th point ("4) All other guidance will invite counter-argument."

>
> here is an article on oiling, looks like it has some of your
> questions answered:
> http://www.naylors-woodwind-repair.com/Publications/deterioration-of-grenadilla-instruments/Show-All-Pages
> http://www.naylors-woodwind-repair.com/lifeeverlasting.htm

I've read these rather quickly - you only posted the links a short while ago - but Naylor seems to be writing about reviving deteriorated instruments, especially ones commonly described as "blown out." His references to oiling focus on immersion techniques for damaged or distorted instruments, either by repeated hand oiling over a period of months or immersion for a few weeks in a tank of oil. This is clearly not what we've been talking about here. I don't dispute in any way that a truly dried out instrument will show the problems he describes and will benefit hugely from intensive immersion with vegetable-based oils. I think he makes a great deal of sense and his approach can probably save a great many otherwise deteriorated ("blown out") wood instruments. I didn't read (maybe I just missed it) anything in either article that recommended regular oiling as a preventive technique to be applied to newer, non-compromised instruments.

Naylor has not answered my questions as they apply to indefinite regular - monthly - oiling of a new clarinet. He talks about stresses in the wood, and nothing he writes about it seems in the least hard for me to believe. But I don't read anything in either article that suggests oiling early and often, assuming the wood was properly seasoned in the first place, will prevent those stresses from having bad effects.

If you tell me I should go back and read more carefully, I will. He makes a great case for my possibly wanting to send him my early '50s Buffet Bb to see what a total immersion rebuild could do for it. But that isn't what this discussion was initially about.

Karl

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