Cameron Randall Brass Repair

Cameron Randall Brass Repair updated their phone number.

Whew! It's been a while, but I'm back with another project. This is a Conn 20I euphonium with a detachable forward-facing bell and short action piston valves that I've been slowly restoring to playing condition. Today was dent day -- there were several dents 1/4" or deeper and as long as 3" in the bell that had to be slowly worked out so as not to stretch and crease the metal. The tenon receiver was also badly dented, preventing the bell from seating properly. It's not perfect yet, but it's much closer! Tomorrow I'm cleaning, and then picking up some parts from a fellow tech's bin to complete the horn and I'll finally get to see how it plays!

Spent this afternoon working on another sousa for . After a few years on a shelf, it's once again clean and in surprisingly good shape!

What can I say, it bothers me that they put the sticker on upside down 🤷‍♂️

Started the morning off right with some coffee and replacing a couple of trombone waterkey corks. If ever there was a job for a lazy Sunday morning, this would be the one!

Loving the look of these new leather guards for my tuba -- handmade by yours truly and !

I wish I had a better before picture, but I'm loving this transformation! This is my new personal tuba, a BMB 845SP. It spent most of its life as a demo horn, so after I got through with it, it might as well be new! In addition to the very obvious polish, I had some tuning slide work, ergonomic adjustments, and a full clean to top it off.
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Prices have been lowered on nearly everything in my inventory! Now that back to school plans are starting to come out, I want to help you get a nice instrument for nice price in time for beginning band or marching band. Ranging from only $75 to $200, we can find something that will serve your needs within your budget! DM me for details!

Today's big project: building a portable workbench that I can set up in my house at school. Started with three small boards, assembled to fold in to the size of one. Then drilled some holes for tools and we were in business! My rawhide mallet handle is a bit of an odd shape, so I had to do a little extra work with the Dremel to open it up a bit. Voila! A complete workbench that could fit in my backpack.
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@ Johnston, Iowa

Made some much needed mods to my own bass trombone cass today! I recently purchased a new (to me) Conn 72H which has a rather small bell section, and a very long slide that many hard cases can't accommodate. I've cut out some of the foam for better fit, replaced the fabric, and installed this nice velcro strap to keep everything from moving around. Giving the new case its first road test this weekend!
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@ Johnston, Iowa

It's not every day one of these come across the bench! This is a Tristar echo cornet, not much of a player but quite a novelty. @ Johnston, Iowa

Finally finished up the last of it: Reassembling valve sections, polishing up the euph, cleaning slides, and finally took some really nice pictures of my tuba while she's still nice and pretty!
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@ Johnston, Iowa

Day 1 of 2: Prepping all of my personal horns for long-term storage. Did lots of small parts, bell sections, and more -- tomorrow is handslides, euphonium, and tuba, then re-assembly!
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@ Johnston, Iowa

Another one ready to hit the streets, hopefully it's a long time before it comes across my bench again!
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@ Johnston, Iowa

Put some work in on this Conn 15A cornet this weekend. Lots of slides pulled, gunk eliminated, and then some very tedious valve alignments. Now the fun part: Pictures!
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@ Johnston, Iowa

Teaching myself a thing or two about sax anatomy tonight...you never know when these things might come in handy!
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Instruments need sunshine too, especially if they're musty...
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Reminder to clean and sanitize your instruments and mouthpieces!
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Working on uploading some before/after pics before my website goes live. Did lots of work to this Dynasty marching euph last year:

Deep clean
All tuning slides pulled and polished
New corks and felts all around
Valves lapped and re-aligned
Full polish

Played like a whole new horn afterwards!
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Throwback to a couple weeks ago, featuring my very own Meinl Weston CC and an Oberlin College Marching Band King sousaphone!
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@ Oberlin, Ohio

Love my awesome new logo, thanks Cait Boblitt!
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