Good days work in the shed...

I had a very productive morning. Traveled up to John's workshop this morning with my father and we rummaged through his graveyard of old instruments. I decided to take my trumpet creation up to John to see if we could finish the piece off to a higher standard. I'm actually quite impressed at how well the polisher finishes off the brass after all the welding and sawing etc. Finally got my SLR back from London so I can actually take some decent shots. Here are a few from today's work:






Some shots of finishing the trumpet off with stronger braces and a bit of polish.








The destruction and reconstruction of the french horn:


The french horn before demolition


Blowtorching the joints.


Removing the valve section


The horn without the valve section.


Figuring out a way to join the bell and mouthpipe together.


Soldering more piping to the mouthpiece.


The final bugle style french horn soldered together.




Trying to iron out a few kinks.

I'm going to finish off cleaning up and polishing the french horn now so that it is more presentable. I'm also thinking of doing similar bugle style to one of the tubas I picked up. I will try and film these to show the process of the work and when someone else is around who can actually blow the instruments I'll get footage of it.