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A New Tool To Measure Pad Sizes

jbtsax

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The techs in our shop collaborated to design and construct a tool that makes it easier and faster to measure woodwind pads. A few have been given away or sold at the last two NAPBIRT Convention. Since there seemed to be a lot of interest in the product, we produced a number of them to sell on the web.

If you have an interest you can check it out at: http://padsizetool.com

John
 
The internet is absolutely amazing. We are already selling tool as far away as Australia.




John
 
When I was doing mouthpieces I found that I sold a lot of pieces outside of the U.S.
 
The pad size tool is being sold at new lower price. Check it out on the website. If you want one hurry before they are all gone.



John
 
new website up

One of my former students is a professional marketing specialist, and I traded a repad on his Selmer Balanced Alto for him to redo my pad size tool website. Check it out. He did a great job with it.


John
 
The site looks nice and the tool is a very simple but cool idea.
 
Thanks Nitai. I use mine for much more than just resorting a dropped pad container. For example on quick sax pad replacements where removing the key is not practical, I just pop the used pad in the tool and know exactly the size to replace it with without having to awkwardly try it in the keycup first.

Another use is to be able to tell quickly if a brand of pads is completely round and running in consistent sizes. I hope you find the tool as useful as I have.


John
 
OK I lied I did use it already the day I got it :) I checked old pads for approx size of replacement.

Actually I don't think it is really possible to decide on the new size of pad based on the size of the old one (it can distort when removed, have glue around the edge, being the wrong size in the first place, etc. etc.) but I never change a pad without removing the key anyway. I sometimes use a caliper to check and the tool is more comfortable if you need to do many in a row, if the tool is in a close comfortable place (which I don't have as all that is taken by more important things). But I consider checking the size of the old pad or measuring the key cup an estimate. It is common that after I get the new pad I then need one size bigger or smaller. A lot of times I just eye it anyway.

I still like the tool and hope not to use it for its main purpose :)
 
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