French Horn Restoration, An Un-casing - Like Unboxing But Different

In this episode, we all get the surprise inside together. Then take out the bell dents. Lots of hammer work and metal shaping. Also, metal smith tip on removing serious ridge/dent.

[@pauljmeyer1]

Seeing those impossible tube creases being worked out, was awsome.

[@striveforfreedom]

That poor H179..... Wes to the rescue! Very nice work Sir. We all truly appreciate you giving all these instruments a new lease on life.

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

Thanks very much for watching

[@bottomup12]

Getting the reaction of the band director receiving it back would be cool to see. Great work!

[@markfarlow4571]

Hearing you grunt reminds me of me. I enjoy your videos

[@bruhsoundeffect8455]

This in casing idea is really great. I imagine this but rare horns would be really cool

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

It was fun. I couldn’t help but chuckle. Maybe I will do some more of these. Thanks for watching.

[@kristimiller-lee2338]

Oh this is good and I love the chuckle. I agree on more un-casing reveals.

[@veiledzorba]

Great job! My mother once ran over my (cased) French Horn, also a double Holton! Damage wasn't too bad, it creased the bell and I needed a new case...

[@trito79]

On my Alexander 103 the solderpoint on the third valve regulary breaks all 2-3 years. Thats because of carrying the instrument under the right arm. I think, it's not a bug, it's a feature! Thanx for sharing your awesome work.

[@Cabeprestwood]

Killer idea on the "uncasing" I think you're on to something there!

[@notmyworld44]

I have a cheap knock-off Bb French horn with several dents. The most problematic one is in that double-curved crook on the 3rd-finger valve. I hugely enjoyed watching this gentleman do this repair job. It was wonderful!!!

[@jrg1127]

I was a band director for over 4 decades. I never had a student damage a horn like that!

[@josehenriquesilva5843]

Bravíssimo trabalho Luther ❤️❤️📯❤️❤️🎼🎶🎶👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@trainroomgary]

😎 Cool auto body work 🚘• Cheers from the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

Haha thanks!

[@restartmaster3859]

У вас золотые руки к вам несут самую тяжёлую работу смотрю!

[@everydaylifer2019]

I had a messed up French horn my 7th grade year. I was cleaning my horn and my sister bumped a dinner table (the folding wooden tables) and it fell on my horn. When we removed the table my keys were detached from the horn and only attached by the strings on the other side. Will never forget and will never clean outside my room.

[@macaroniwithoutcheese175]

It’s funny, at my school, in be condition it was in a the beginning, it would have made it the best working horn at our school. We’ve got a dozen or so broken horns on a shelf from over the years that we have no money to repair.

[@erniearruda8861]

Well that horn is a light work out for me. I had worse but I bet you had too🤣👍🏻

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

You know, another day at the office.

[@mankey90]

Rus. Отличная работа! 👍

[@Daniel_Zarate]

Cool!

[@ms-mac521]

👍👍👍

[@jasonyoung7391]

very nice. what a difference. At what point do we have to start worrying about work hardening the brass? I'm always afraid of cracking it when I see sharp folds like that.

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

Good question. I’ll try to explain via text. Did you notice that a steel headed hammer never made contact with a steel ball inside until my finish passes? On the ball while trying to rough the dent out, I used plastic, delrin, rawhide hammers. These materials are not harder than brass and so keeps from making the brass brittle. Hollow tap with your steel dent hammer being very specific about where you are pushing the metal, then back to rawhide, etc to bring it all back up, then on your finish passes use the steel dent hammer on the ball and only use the force of light tapping- think trombone slide tapping, followed by your dress hollow tapping, then final step burnishing, and you will be fine. In a related but unrelated topic, you have to know the difference between the metals used on the different instruments and their “brittleness” from factory. And while a modify of these techniques are used on every instrument, you have to feel, watch, know how a Miraphone (for example) is more likely to crack than an old Conn. I hope I explained this well, thanks for the good question.

[@jasonyoung7391]

@@wesleemusicrepair9820 thank you for taking the time to reply. This is very helpful.

[@ReaperRestorations]

i've done bodywork for years and i've never seen that trick. i have a project right now where it would be very helpful!

[@brianpite0893]

Really nice work! I heard that some auto body guys use a kind of balloon to get into tight spaces.

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

Thanks. That is true however doesn’t work well on brass instruments from when I tried . Although, have you seen some of the tuba manufacturers that use super compressed air to make their tubing and bends? Pretty cool.

[@apfelsnutz]

These are great videos...I've got some work for you on my Conn 8D-RS...

[@jerseattle0722]

[@maynorquiroa1463]

Can you make a video about how you started as a repair tech!

[@wesleemusicrepair9820]

You would find that enjoyable?

[@bruhsoundeffect8455]

@@wesleemusicrepair9820 id definitely would like that

[@mikerichards6311]

👏🏻👍

[@sd.lulu.multipurpose5306]

That horn looks like one of my friends horn. She dropped hers on the music stand and it looked like that.

[@kaiserflxme]

I once asked my friend why his euphonium was broken and he said he stepped on it.