The joint of my mouthpiece and the top joint of the upper part is too loose, which means my barrel is very loose when put together. Is there any way to fix this, before I take it to the clarinet shop? Thanks.
A piece of paper wrapped around the joint?A piece of paper.
I have a lathe and can do this, but almost always prefer not to. So I have to disagree with "required"Doing a high quality job then requires spinning the joint on a lathe, and using the emery board to carefully round the leading and back edge of the cork to create a "barrel" shape being careful not to remove material from the tenon itself.
It's less entertaining than you might have hoped. ;-)As entertaining as it is to picture you with a clarinet "clamped" between your thighs, (...)
That's for sure - even a "quick" and "cheap" job deserves to be done right.I gave the description above to try to dispel the notion that a professional cork installation on a high quality instrument is a quick and cheap repair.
I used to have a bench peg and removed it because I found I prefer to do everything that I used it for without it
I have a lathe and can do this, but almost always prefer not to. So I have to disagree with "required"
I don't like the "shoe shining" sanding so I prefer to hold the joint with my hand and use a nail file and/or a file with sand paper glued to it to sand. For the purpose this is as accurate as any method IMO since there is no 0.01mm accuracy necessary anywayThen how do you support clarinet joints and saxophone neck when you sand the cork?
I've done it both ways and I have a lathe... and still prefer to do this by hand. Nothing wrong with using a lathe, but my point was that I disagreed with "required".I have done it both ways, and find that it is both faster and easier to do a perfect job of shaping the cork using the lathe. I don't yet have one in my new shop, but will be getting one soon.
Dealing with mostly prehistoric instruments, I see that many tenons are inevitably wobbly as they are worn by thousands of assembly/disassembly cycles. Capping and sleeving a tenon/socket is expensive, and rebuilding the tenon with wood dust and superglue, or with epoxy, isn't 100% foolproof because of the comparably thin layer needed, combined with the inevitable swelling and shrinking of the wood.The clarinets I see that have "no wobble" without cork is almost none (...)