We met Tom at the Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, at which time he decided to send his tenor back with us for an Uberhaul! In addition to the Uberhaul, Tom opted for several upgrades and modifications. We will be upgrading some of the standard Mark VI issues, such as replacing the side key ball joints with forked arms, and installing an adjustment screw for Low B to C#. Tom also chose to replace all of the springs with our gold-plated steel needle springs, replace all of the pearl holders and pearls (they were getting pretty worn!), add side key contacts, a Teflon ball octave mechanism, and adjustment screws for each of the stacks. We also gave Tom the option to remove the mic pick-up on the neck. With a little polishing, tinting, and lacquering, you’ll never know it was there!
The pearls and pearl holders on Tom’s horn are pretty worn out, so we are replacing both.
Can you guess what we are going to add here?
Tom’s neck had a mic pickup on it, which he requested we remove.
We discovered a small crack at the top of the body tube. We will weld this back together and make it extra durable.
Here you can see the inside of the body tube where the crack is. We’ll clean this up from the inside out.
The crack has been filled…
We’ll replace all of Tom’s springs with gold plated needle springs.
Low B to C# adjustment screw.
Goodbye sidekey ball joints, hello forks!
A couple of the new pearl holders. We’ll show these lacquered with new pearls installed later.
Tom’s new Gold Springs! Fancy!
The neck looks lovely with its fresh tinted lacquer job.
Tom chose the Saxgourmet pads and requested we re-use his ResoTech resonators.
This horn is getting set-up and will be playing again soon!
Key contacts in action! The gold-plated MusicMedic.com thumb hook was added as well.
Nicely re-finished palm key touches.
The tape on the F# will be replaced with proper materials soon.
