I think I speak for all trombonists when I say that this is the best trombone slide repair that I hope I'll never need.

A very interesting video. I do woodworking. Many techniques you show are applicable to what I do. Take your time, use of quality tools - I’ve watched your videos for some time and never commented. I believe you are an excellent craftsman.

Details make the difference. I really enjoy your videos. I am a retired Master GM mechanic for 50 years. The difference between a good mechanic and a Master Mechanic is someone that pays attention to the details. When I first started "turning wrenches" was in 1973 at a Vo-tech School in Auto Mechanics. I was very nervous about getting everything just right. I told myself this car and/or truck belongs to me NOW. I would work on it to repair MY car and/or truck the way it "Wanted" it repaired. Slow down, take my time, and do the very best job I know how. When it was finished and passed all my tests, I would "ONLY THEN" turn it back to the customer. I had a passion for what I was doing, getting paid for it was the customers way of saying thank you. In the world we live in today, everyone just wants the money, so they turn out inferior work! Wes Lee you are a Craftsman. I still am shocked by some of your repairs. I realize these are "student" instruments, but how did they bend them up that bad? Drop off a bridge. Thank you for helping this World Sound a little better with Music. Don Ross

Don't you just love it when it comes out perfect! Fantastic work, Wes!

Not sure why I keep watching your videos, usually 1 a day. I am not a musician, I am not a workshop technician of any kind. I do love listening to music of most kinds, military and country in parrticular. I do have one musical instrument, it is my late grandfather's military fife. He was a UK army musician in the earlier part of the last century. It is unplayable due to a split in the wood. Probably I watch because I love seeing masters of their craft at work.

That was so cool! I knew all of those things from a player perspective, now I know them from the technician's perspective. Also, "Oh, yeah, that feels great" when running the slide. We all know that feeling.

Love the joy in his voice at the smoothness of the slide lol

Thanks for the video! Oh and as for a learning curve, you ant kidding! I'm going through a hard lesson right now.

I just found this video. I watch all of your videos as you release them, but I have never seen one on t-bone slide repair. Thanks for doing this one, I greatly appreciate you!

A little part of me died at seeing that huge dent. It was brought back seeing you work.

Meticulous! Great to see this precision.

The perfect slide

Good video

"Venturi tube" That's the part that came unsoldered on the trombone my parents rented. I was always careful not to put the mouthpiece in too hard, but one day a tube pulled out with it. The band director called it something else, but I forget.

I have no musical talent at all but I love these videos. It amazes the incredible attention to detail you possess. Not to mention how precise your work is when only using your eyes and hands.

I click "like" before I even watch the video. I really enjoy your techniques.

Easy for me to pick it up through the camera.33 years of trained eye 😅 awesome job👍🏻🇨🇦

Makes me realize that I should probably take my trombone to a shop. Got a bit of binding if the slide isn't constantly lubricated. Great video!

A granite surface plate from Woodcraft will be cheaper than the Ferree's ground metal surface plate. It will be at least as accurate (maybe a couple of tenths--0.0002"--over the 18" length) and usually easier to come by. It will also be useful for other things, too, like aligning a whole mess of valve tubing in a top-action euphonium or tuba, or aligning tuning slides so that they are co-planar. And with a surface gage, a granite plate is also very good for scribing precise distances from square ends. I love Ferree's (and I have a big order coming from them this week), but they are sometimes out of reach price-wise for amateurs. But they will sell their good stuff to those amateurs, unlike "Company A."

Near where I live, is an HBCU, that the trombone players are famous for jamming their forearms through the slide tubes. And executing a karate chop style maneuver. Of course this produces a wooden barrel bow. I've been in the music store when these are brought in. Definitely not family friendly.

I have seen you work and I think you are an excellent repairman.

Love your new opening!

Cool stuff! Thx for sharing.

Awesome

Trabalho magnífico. Você é um grande profissional. Parabéns!

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Nice

I remember in marching band I had a melaphone turn the wrong way and put a major dent in my slide when I was in 3rd and the dent was in 5th... 😢 I wasn't happy.

Hey! Can you please do a video on fabricating a valve for a horn that’s missing one! Specifically a tuba? Thank you!

Excelente video y trabajo aprendí mucho gracias por tanta explicación. 👍👍👍

In the right hands with the right tools, metal is putty. You don’t learn a skill like this in one week one month or one year, decades in the correct tools, and the right temperament.

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I need to have you look at my exhaust system.

Good good good

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This looks like the sort of think that's easy to attempt, easy to get lucky on, and easy to absolutely ruin, chasing a tiny mistake for hours until it's unsalvageable.

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Maybe tape your wax pencil to your light pen for convenience.

great video...whats your preference on cleaning slides?

How do you straighten a slide when it has a S bend?