January 09, 2018
This horn came to me after having lived as a wall decoration for several decades. It was completely rusted and seized up in a way that I have only seen in other saxes that were exposed to the weather or submerged at ...
January 09, 2018
It has been a hell of a year. Stayed really busy, and remembered to take a few photos of some of the stuff that came across my bench. I saw an unusual number of early Mark VIs, Conn 30Ms, Conn 26Ms, and original ...
March 11, 2017
I had a rough patch in my personal life last year (doing better now) and had not put a post here in a while. Here are a few random selections from what has been on my bench in the past few months. Click to ...
November 08, 2016
This was a beast of an overhaul. This beautiful gold-plated saxophone originally had the Martin "Neverleek" pad system, which was a gimbaled pad that consisted of a very large dome hard-soldered in the key cup, with a very ...