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Re: Clarinet Swedging Tools

Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-05-20 11:40

As swaging can mark the keywork, you should also get a burnisher so any marks left by swaging can be burnished smooth, then polished out to make them as inconspicuous as possible. This is easier to do on silver plated and unplated keys than nickel plate due to silver and nickel silver being much softer than nickel.

And a barrel fraise/hinge tube shortener with the appropriate diameter pilot can then be used to true up the ends of key barrels that have become distorted through swaging so they won't cause uneven wear or damage the pillar faces or adjoining key barrels.

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

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