Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2017-09-21 19:52
It's messy, contact cement. And it once the bottle is opened the air kills it. It gets thick. Use rubber gloves. The stuff is hard to get off of your fingers. Back to the cement getting thick. It can get too thick and at this point just get another bottle. If it's too thick the glue takes forever to dry and it just isn't worth how messy it gets to clean up and get a nice even, smooth, thin layer put on to the joint and the cork. I like to wait about 20 to 30 minutes before attaching the cork to the joint. It will stick hard. Then I wrap rubber bands around the cork for about another hour. remove and sand to fit. Nail files work great to sand off the cork to size.
I hate how some joints are made. The joints wobble often due to this because the cork isn't wide enough. So I will take an electric file, a small one of course and make that area wider where the new cork will go. This will surely help stop any wobbling, including mouthpieces.
To remove the old cork I use a knife and to remove the adhesive I use rubber gloves and something called, "Goof Off," lasts forever. Use a paper towel, not a rag, because of the smell and you can then throw out the paper towel and now smell up the house. The service is now ready. You have a much wider cork area, so you shouldn't get anymore wobbles, or very little. These can cause air leaks.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
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