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How to strip and repolish a brass trumpet

Q. How to strip and repolish a brass trumpet and where to purchase supplies? Has spots that show the base coat. The inside of the bell of the trumpet (HUANG)(Made in China)(This number is on the middle valve 254) has little spots. It has little black spots and large blank flat brass.

William Jared S.
Student - Dobson, North Carolina, USA
2004

A. The best way to do a project like that, William, may be to take it to an instrument store or a plating shop.

It's certainly not impossible for you to refinish your trumpet yourself, but calculate how much time you have spent learning to play the trumpet, and how many words your instructors have said to you in your career, against how well you have learned to play by now. If you spend that much time on metal finishing, and read that many words, you'll be as good at metal finishing as you are at playing trumpet :-)

Do you really want to start that process? If so, check our Chemicals & Consumables directory for "buffing supplies" and "lacquers" and see volume 1 of the Metal Finishing Guidebook.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2004

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