I accepted this as a school trade-in, but later found that the female top-threads on the pistons were boogered out.
Yeah...I could have plugged and re-tapped, but I found someone to sell me another complete set of NOT-boogered pistons
, and now I'm ready to sell it.NOT YET DONE:
- I would like to reinforce the case corners a little bit (the case is NOT "trashed"), remove a few more small dents, pass the buffing wheel over the brown (missing lacquer/tarnished) areas, and shoot some lacquer on the touched-up areas...so it will appear "generally shiny" from a galloping horse.
This is a thick-wall instrument, and I had to work pretty hard (unlike most made today) to remove what dents and creases where there. ALL of the original metal is still on the instrument.
I'm hoping that I have a new 6-1/2AL to put with it...probably the best match to avoid a tubby sound.
If no band directors, jazzers, or combination-of-both are interested at $550 + shipping (no dents and super-econo shine-up and spray-over), I'll just find a place for it on the "wall-o'-tubas here, and I'll have another Oktoberfest gimmick-horn.
I can accept your credit card, and can have our c.c. processor email you a secure link to pay.
It will take a few days for me to get around going over this thing one last time (per above) and getting it packed/shipped.
Given the choice, I would choose to ship it FedExGround.
