Conn, King, Olds, Yamaha, Jupiter sousanecks ALWAYS in stock

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Re: Conn, King, Olds, Yamaha, Jupiter sousanecks ALWAYS in s

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Those zip lock bags remind me of McMaster-Carr (I just got an order from them last week) 8)
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Re: Conn, King, Olds, Yamaha, Jupiter sousanecks ALWAYS in s

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bloke wrote:When I see that I have all the repairable pieces to make a neck for a particular brand of sousaphone, I put them in a zip-lock and put that zip-lock in a labeled bin.

I HATE stocking necks...They're expensive, and Amazon insures that I can't make but 15 or 20 bucks on them...
...so when someone local needs an emergency neck, I build one, make it pretty (scrape, polish, lacquer), and charge the going Amazon rate for a new one. ' takes about an hour...

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