Customizing charges, 2008
1) Enlarging bore size + adjusting straightaway: $15.
2) Enlarge backbore: $15
3) Shortening the stem: $15
4) Cut down stem taper: $20
5) Altering cup shape: $25, includes silver re-plating.
6) Increasing rim inner diameter: $20, includes silver re-plating
7) Decreasing rim outer diameter: $20, includes silver re-plating.
8) Changing rim face contour: $25, includes silver re-plating.
9) Changing the texture of the rim's surface, $20, includes silver re-plating.
10) Nick removal & other damage control...even twisting off stuck rims: Ask
11) Re-stem damaged mouthpiece, Morse #0 Taper: $25
12) Gold plate customer's rim: $20.
13) Make threads to a one-piece mouthpiece: $25. (Making threads to a one-piece mouthpiece means cutting off the existing rim, then adjusting the underpart's total length to accommodate a screw rim @ .655" standard junction inner diameter.)
14) Cut rim off a one-piece mouthpiece and make threads to the rim: $20. (Please note that cutting the rim off a one-piece mouthpiece reduces the remaining underpart by about 7/16", entirely machining the rim away. (Click for gruesome pic.) Retaining BOTH the rim AND the underpart as threaded pieces isn't possible.)
15) Many factory mouthpieces can be completely customized to Moosewood internal dimensions. This is good news for an impoverished college student, as the cost is very reasonable. You can have the advantage of a first-class custom mouthpiece and still save bucks for Spring Break. (example: Yamaha 30 converted to Moosewood C10: $35).
16) Watch while I work on your piece: $40 per hour.
17) Describe to me how a custom piece will supplant long tone practice: Priceless!
Note: Unless you really have know-how and the right tooling, DON'T attempt to machine or plate a nice mouthpiece in your garage. Click Horror picture below:
A simple requiem was conducted for this (expensive) Cartouche before it was laid to rest.
Note on fit of the mouthpiece in leadpipe: FIT
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