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Re: $99 re-pad service?

Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2018-07-05 23:15

Agree with Karl on this one. Some bore oil is or can be toxic. You have to be so careful here even if the bore oil says it natural the shelf life can or usually is limited. For example natural oils you use for cooking say olive oil has a limited shelf life at a supermarket/grocery store and then it goes bad. same with bore oil. anything over 6 months or so I wouldn't use it and as Karl says I don't use it anyway because it will expand the inside bores and cause tuning issues, until it is whipped out slowly with your clarinet swab and even then the wood has absorbed a lot of the oil. So you are stuck with a smaller bore for many years.

I can see doing this to a horn that hasn't been played on for 20 years and really needs some serious attention. But even then I'd question doing this depending on how dry the inside of the bore is. If there are open gaps in the grain I think i might, but I'd play on the horn for a bit to see if these close up from moisture first.

If you use bore oil use rubber gloves.

I've read about people using this on reeds and I think they are totally nuts.

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