Hirsbrunner BBb $850
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2023 8:10 am
blokerhauls:
I sold a college girl a King 3B which I gently re-lacquered.
She is now a forty-something-year-old mom/band director with a son who is playing it.
He loves playing jazz trombone and bass.
Before he knew better (and at his mother's dismay) he marched with the instrument, and dented it up several times.
I'm going to do a complete "technical review" and re-lacquer it yet again, but any cuts and scratches will remain.
Being a King, I'm going to hit it with gold-tinted lacquer, which might tend to cloak the cuts and scratches just a bit.
(For fun - and a tiny bit of bling, I might protect the nickel parts from the gold, and hit those areas with clear.
This is actually a backwards operation - whereby the entire instrument will be lacquered with clear, allowed to skin over for
a few days, clear parts on the bell will be gently masked and a thin coat of tinted will be applied at the end - but not too
many days later, as it needs to affect a good bond to the clear underneath.)