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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2007-02-01 02:24
I've already had the split ring added when I had the horn overhauled a year or so ago. The original did not even have a hole through it, thus forcing the use of that bucket abomination, and it about drove me batty trying to swap out horns in a hurry. I'm not going through that ordeal again, that I know.
This evening, we went down to the local leather shop, located in our Montrose "alternative lifestyle" area. The guys that run the place have been more than helpful with other leather working problems in the past, and (while they did not at first understand what it was that I wanted) we finally worked out the finished plan for the leather tailor to work on sometime next week.
They didn't have any leather finished only on one side (their normal clientele is big on smooth finished leather on both sides, along with shiny metal studs), but he felt that a combination of their normal stock for the top half with a sueded layer stitched to the bottom side would both trap the hook in place and keep it aligned, and provide the "non-slip" tack to hold it all in place on the chair.
Sandwiched together and finished off with some topstitching around the periphery plus some cross belt rows to "lock" backing in place, and with some heavy stitching around the back side of the hook to keep it in registry, it should do just fine.
For now, it's back to the old standby, a worn out belt with a bass clarinet hook through the bottom-most hole. Now, if I only had thought ahead enough to have a whisper key lock installed during the rebuild...
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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Terry Stibal |
2007-01-31 16:27 |
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cairngorm |
2007-01-31 23:30 |
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2007-02-01 02:24 |
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2007-02-15 02:05 |
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