The trick you did with the aluminum foil.... GENIUS!!! I am absolutely stealing that :)

I played a Mark VI just like this one in the 1960s. Thanks for sharing the video. The old Selmer Paris horns are the best.

I’ve played a Mark VI Bari just like this since I was 13. I played it all through school, and now I borrow it each summer to play in our community band. It’s clanky, has its own built in rhythm section, but it plays so much better than the others. It was nice to see this video and the adjustments on the cannonball in the other video as it gave a lot of insight into small ways to help maintain and adjust!

How the tone holes didnt get damage is a miracle by the post

The engraving must have been beautiful in it's day! Thanks for the video

Definitely didn't go crazy on the repair and teardown. but easy dent and bend with solder skills all it took nice. 🎉 What a beautiful made 🎷

Very cool to watch a craftsman at work. As a guitar player I wouldn't know what to do with a saxophone but as a amp builder/crafts person it's always awesome to watch good work being done

Great insight into your work. I could tell that you had done this a time or two, because I was cringing as I saw you take each part off and put down in the table. I would have taken a hundred pictures just to remember what went where. Impressive

Good to see that B♭ seating properly.

I played flute in 7th grade back in the early 80s, then switched to tenor sax in 8th. Did play bari some, too, when the song called for it, but we didn't have a regular bari player. Some great memories of those days!! What a sublime repair! (Mama Told Me Not To Come was SO fun to play on bari!!)

Awesome work, thanks for letting us in for the ride.

Nice sound! That horn has held up well in that kind of environment. You have a keen sense of finding the spots that need attention. It’s just a shame there wasn’t budget to take out the body tube dent. Maybe someday that horn will find itself in private hands which will be able to bring it back to its original state.😊

played a greenish MkVI in Foley HS Band and at USA - didnt appreciate them at all at the time - just beat up old Baris .wish I had one now Lol. Now my Bari is a salvaged EX High School Band Couf from the late 60s - great horn

You are truly a master at repair VERY sublely done !

Wow, thats quite a "student" horn for a school district!

Great work, I’m a bari sax player, and appreciate seeing a great old sax get some TLC.

What a gorgeous instrument. Nice work!

Show as always. Congratulations!

I love the way a Selmer saxophone looks.

Just like Downtown! Yeaaaahhhhhh!!!!!! Love it

Great work. Thanks.

Cool new opening!

Nice work.

Master at work😊

Thanks for your input

Great repair good times peace

Nice Horn , I like your dent puller with the vise grips . Good idea. Pretty easy repair , at least its in decent shape for a school horn. From the days when School Board Music Programs had money. Someone like you should rescue it and trade them multiple other brands of horn for that one , before it gets destroyed. I used to do that with Altos and Trevor MkVI,s. Take care from Canada 🇨🇦

I also had one of these. I am really good at taking them apart, not so good at putting them back together. :)

I don't know how you do it with student horns. I am one of those people that has to fix it if I see it is broke. I couldn't send something back with dents and stuff in it. I don't seem to recall seeing a lot of damaged instruments when I was a band member in the late 70's early 80's. Most I remember was the stuck mouthpiece or 2.

Not sure if some of the newer car body work tools for pulling dents out would help out here. It was just a thought when I watched you using your slide hammer. They are able to repair dents without scratching the paint.

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At beginning when Wes showed and explained the various issue. I though, OK, how much $ for a New 1? He always gives sad instruments New Hope and Life!

Always cool to see Wes working on a bari. I had the rare good fortune to have a Mark VII bari (yes, they do exist, but I think they are really just a late-run Mk VI with "MARK VII" engraved on the bottom band) as a school horn in high school jazz band 40+ years ago, and I miss that horn SO much. I was recently gifted a mid-80s Bundy II bari, and since it's not really worth the cost to have it properly restored, I'm looking forward to using it as a learning platform to try to fix what I can on it, and Wes's videos have been invaluable to that end. I will NEVER turn down a free bari, no matter what shape it's in. 😀

Pretty cool watching your videos I do wish they were about 30 minutes long. Maybe you could do 30 minute long ones and do them more frequently maybe every day or something and maybe wear what they call a head cam where you were on top of your head and then that keeps your hands-free and we can just watch what you’re doing and go along for the ride. You really have an interesting trade, I am in the LOCKSMITH trade myself and I enjoy what I do with it but I also enjoy watching other people work on instruments and mechanical things. I think it’s quite interesting so keep up the good work Wesley and we will see you in the next video.

You kinda make me want to study and become a luthier myself

Thank you for another video! Where can I get those foam supports you're using?

60fps is nice!

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First. Both those other guys are also lying. ;-0). Only kidding. Baris get beat up and present many challenges. Nice work.

When you remove the rods on a woodwind instrument, how often do you catch your fingers up on the springs? I used to hate that part of working with woodwinds when trying to replace pads on my band instruments!

Great job. BTW, where did you get that pair of Sargent parallel jaw pliers? Been looking for years.

The school doesnt have money to repair a Mark VI, But the have money to own one! Nice repair!

Wes, where did you get those sax bench props ? I certainly could use them in my shop. Thank you

Did you seal(epoxy) the bell,or is it supposed to be that finiky?

What key was removed at 5:49? I am missing mine on a recently aquired bari and cant find any info about what it is or where to buy one

It's always seemed logical to me that school horns would feature body damage, not key wear as the focus of their needs of service. The school Bari is one of those things that tends to be played at rehearsals and concerts.

What are those foam stands you are using?

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First.... the other guy is lying