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Any good repair techs in the Triangle? (Mike Morse is no longer working on horns not bought from Tuba Exchange.)

sungfw wrote:Any good repair techs in the Triangle? (Mike Morse is no longer working on horns not bought from Tuba Exchange.)

Wow. That has to be quite possibly the weirdest thing I've ever heard of a repair technician doing for a company.

ASTuba wrote:Wow. That has to be quite possibly the weirdest thing I've ever heard of a repair technician doing for a company.

Maybe he's got so much work to do fixing the St. Petes and Chinese horns they've sold over the past few years that he doesn't have time for anything else.

mclaugh wrote:
Maybe he's got so much work to do fixing the St. Petes and Chinese horns they've sold over the past few years that he doesn't have time for anything else.

Ouch!! Spot on, but ouch anyway.

Have you considered David Kratz from the Fayetteville area? I have his contact info at home if you're interested.

Kratz is the man to see. I highly recommend his services.

TRM

jonesbrass wrote:Have you considered David Kratz from the Fayetteville area? I have his contact info at home if you're interested.

I'd consider him, but it's about 100 miles one way to Fayetteville, so it'd be a 3 hour roundtrip, twice if it couldn't be taken care of same day. Between that and gas at $4.xx/gal, I'd really like to find someone a bit closer.

Anyone know if Brassworks in Raleigh (founder/owner Ben Shaw) is still in business?

Ok ... just got back from having the saddle of my main tuning slide trigger reattached to the slide at Jewelsmith in Erwin Square (Durham).

Ordinarily, wouldn't be a big deal, but the slide and saddle are gold plated, and both of the repair techs I talked with said that they'd need to be replated once the saddle was reattached because heating them up to the point the solder would flow could damage the gold plate, and one of them suggested finding a jeweler who does gold plating and have them do both.

As it turns out, Philip, one of the senior craftsman (as the name suggests, they're smiths, not jewelry retailers, so they make their jewelry on-site) needed all of 5 minutes, including cleaning and polishing, to reattach the saddle, with no damage to the gold plating. Charged less than either of the repair techs quoted, to boot!

What's really interesting, though—and the reason I'm posting this—is that Jewelsmith is equipped to do dent work! So if you need soldering, plating, or dent work done, I would definitely recommend checking them out.