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Author: GBK
Date: 2019-02-20 01:18
Where to find a tenon cork scraper to remove old tenon corks?
...GBK
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-02-20 02:11
On my phone I can't do anything fancy, but there is a $66.00 gizm on Votaw Tool Company's website called a "tenon cork stripper."
.................Paul Aviles.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2019-02-20 02:21
Paul Aviles wrote:
> On my phone I can't do anything fancy, but there is a $66.00
> gizm on Votaw Tool Company's website called a "tenon cork
> stripper."
I saw that one, but I'm looking for just a simple hand tool, like the one in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ZPjO4tpn0
...GBK
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Author: clarimad
Date: 2019-02-20 02:38
Why risk damaging the tenon with such a vicious tool she uses in the youtube video?
I simply score the old cork and remove it - might take a few seconds longer that in the video but at least there's no damage done!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2019-02-20 03:42
I don't particularly care for her method in that video and I'd never do that to any clarinet. Even worse is how she sands the tenon corks as that's just asking for trouble.
Just use a flat blade screwdriver which is what I use in most cases.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2019-02-20 03:47
Chris P wrote:
> Just use a flat blade screwdriver which is what I use in most
> cases.
That's what I currently use, but thought there might be a dedicated tool made for this purpose.
...GBK
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Author: BobW
Date: 2019-02-20 06:29
Attachment: IMG_4913.JPG (1647k)
take a small flat bladed screwdriver, heat the blade with a torch to red color
and bend tip to 90 degrees and file tip to sharp angle
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Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2019-02-20 07:04
I haven't personally used one, but Ferrees sells a cork scraper that is (conceptually) somewhere between the one shown in the video you posted, and the one in the photo BobW posted of the bent screwdriver. It looks kinda handy. The item number is F12.
Fuzzy
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2019-02-20 08:09
I use a square-edge scraper blade in a hobby knife. Works fine. Finish up with a wipe with a stiff brush (an old nail brush).
Tony F.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2019-02-20 13:17
I use old pliers I inherited from my grandfather that just happen to be perfect for that (it's all I use them for). It doesn't damage anything. To remove the last bits, I use a brass brush on a dental micromotor.
I never liked any of those scrapers that are supposedly shaped to remove tenon corks. I also really like most of Votaw's stuff, but that cork stripper is useless IMO.
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Author: tarynone
Date: 2019-02-21 21:00
I too use a flat head screwdriver, but JL smith also makes a tool for it. They seem to make a tool for everything. Here it is at http://www.jlsmithco.com/fix-kit-tools/jls-cork-and-pad-cup-scraper
Not as curved as the one in your video, however.
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Author: shmuelyosef
Date: 2019-02-25 06:59
I remember that I looked at Ferree's once and then later saw them on the Dawkes site...have no recollection of what I paid, but it's a very effective tool. Makes a simple job of removal, no matter what stupid thing the previous handler did...
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Author: steve1221
Date: 2019-07-13 07:01
I am looking for one too - just a hand held tool
Post Edited (2019-07-13 07:02)
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Author: Johnny Galaga
Date: 2022-12-25 01:04
Bumping an old thread here that came up in a search. Is it wrong to sand down the cork to make it the right thickness? I seen a couple videos where that's what they all do.
Post Edited (2022-12-25 01:04)
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-12-25 06:43
Johnny Galaga wrote:
> Is it
> wrong to sand down the cork to make it the right thickness?
I'm assuming you're contrasting this with using the exact thickness that provides an ideal fit? If the cork you've used is too thick, you'd have to thin it down somehow after you've mounted it (you won't know it's too thick before you cement it on). You'd have to be fairly lucky to hit on a cork strip or sheet of cork that's exactly the right thickness.
I've had repair people hand sand a newly corked tenon (any tenon) to get a good fit. I've also had two of them put the piece on a lathe with an appropriate mandrel and lightly hold a piece of wet-or-dry against the spinning tenon.
> I
> seen a couple videos where that's what they all do.
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All of a couple, I guess, is two, so you've seen two people sand the tenon cork. If you want to use YouTube as a guide, you should really find more videos. Every competent tech has his own ways and tricks to make the best repairs he can. The only really wrong way would be to do something that damages or destroys the tenon or gives an end result that's too loose-fitting.
Karl
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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-12-25 06:56
Just to clarify, that isn't what the thread you attached your post to is about. I assume you realize that the rest of the thread is about tools to scrape *off* - remove - damaged or worn-out cork in order to replace it.
Karl
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