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Originally Posted by Vulgano Brother  Morris, how did you strip the laquer off your trumpet? You said that it is the first one you sent in for a new laquer job. I wonder if another horn stripped the same way might get the same results from another tech. No judgment here, just trying to use that good old "scientific method," which, although it doesn't always work with violists and conductors, might work here.
I assume that nobody is lying, but simply stating reality as they see it.
I suspect that maybe, just maybe, the chemicals you used to strip your trumpet might be immune to the normal cleaning solutions used by techs. Nobody at fault here, mind you, but just perhaps a scientific anomaly to be investigated and perhaps solved.
I (and some others, I think) would love to know the answer! |
I asked that this thread be permanently closed after the re-lacquer person came here and identified himself and lied about me.
I am a retired minister, so his multiple slander thrown at me cut me deeply.
To the first person above in this thread who said that I should seek to have the re-lacquer guy refund my money or re-do the lacquer again:
I consider all of that money to be lost.
Not only did I lose the money that I gave to the guy for re-lacquering, but I also lost my original investment in the cornet because it was left in worse shape than when I bought it, it was left in a condition in which it could not be sold again.
After all, who would want to buy a cornet with dull, green, peeling lacquer that had several drip marks on it?
And I did not have the money to have a better / more expensive re-lacquer job done on the cornet.
So I gave the cornet to someone for free.
I lost a lot of money that I could not easily afford to lose.
But the re-lacquer person lost much more.
He came here and he insisted that he did a good job of re-lacquering the cornet,
he claimed that I was lying about the lacquer,
he insisted that he was not going to give a refund,
he threw all sorts of angry false accusations at a retired minister,
and then the current owner of the cornet posted *photos* of how the cornet's lacquer was turning bright green and peeling after just 2 weeks of use so that we could see what kind of job the re-lacquer guy *really* did.
So his reputation is ruined, but not by me, because I protected his identity in this thread, he came here and he identified himself.
To the second person above who said that maybe I used some strange stripper on it that was affecting the re-lacquer:
When I bought the cornet it was already stripped, already polished bare metal, it was *gorgeous*.
In the short time that I owned it the cornet started to tarnish badly, so I asked the re-lacquer guy how much he would charge to re-lacquer it.
He quoted a price, then later he sounded liked he regretted quoting me such a low price, so I voluntarily paid him anothe $25 beyond what he asked for.
For that price he agreed to polish the tarnish off the cornet and then give it a couple of thin coats of regular non-epoxy lacquer.
I have no idea what the previous owner had used to strip the cornet nor do I know how long ago that stripping was done.
But the re-lacquer guy re-polished the entire cornet before re-lacquering it, so that polish should have removed any residue of past stripping.
I speculate that the polish residue might have affected the re-lacquer job.
In tiny crevices on the cornet I could see black residue under the new lacquer, black residue that had not been there when I turned over the cornet to the re-lacquer guy.
And it had not been a rush job.
He had told me that he would have the cornet for a couple of weeks, but it turned out that he had it for more like several weeks.
Anyway, this thread is best left permanently closed because nothing good will come from re-hashing the matter.
I lost a lot of money, my reputation was trashed.
Let's close the thread.
- Morris