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Our Work Schedule 2012: 1-3-11 Conn Gold Artist "Harp" alto: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. Seward In Progress
1-17-12 Buescher Big B Tenor: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with metal-backed pads and natural cork throughout. Williamson In Progress
2-1-12 SML Rev D Alto: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout, + custom key fabrication. Heine In Progress
2-15-12 The Martin Tenor: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Gillette
3-1-12 Buffet Super Dynaction Tenor: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with prestini pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Croasdale
3-15-12 SLOT OPEN
3/29--4/14/12 TIME OFF
4-16-12 SLOT OPEN
If you wish to schedule a rebuild, or purchase one of our saxes (and it still needs to be rebuilt), send us a 50% deposit to hold your place in the work schedule. We work from a published schedule (see left margin) so that your sax will only be out of your possession a couple weeks, while i do the actual work, it does not have to just sit on the shop floor, until its turn comes up... you send it to arrive on schedule and we return it on schedule. E-mail chadd with questions about our vintage saxes at: worldwidesax@gmail.com
Click the links above to see what's in stock. If a horns says "just rebuilt", then it's ready to go, saxes that say "scheduled for a rebuild" are waiting for the work to be done, but it will be included in the posted price. If a sax says "ON TRIAL" someone is taking advantage of our "Three Day Trial" policy (See Info and Orders page). NEW! Saxophone Comparison Chart Some of the best vintage saxes of all time
Here is a pic of some custom resonator work. We can size the reso to your tonehole, or whatever you like.
We can get you virtually any resonator made, my favorite is the Resotech solid silver reso.
WE DO GOLD AND SILVER ELECTRO-PLATING That's right! We have a: GOLD STAR Pro plating system
It is our business to Rebuild your sax or sell ours as Fully Rebuilt Saxes. We never sell our stock "As-Is". We are Restorers.
If you wish to schedule a rebuild, or purchase one of our saxes and it still needs to be rebuilt, send us a 50% deposit and we will schedule its rebuild before any of our other worldwidesax.com inventory.
Everybody loves these new Kangaroo skin pads, aka Saxgourmet Pads and you can get them from Curt, at musicmedic.com you can request that any WWS stock be rebuilt with them, or just click this link and order some for yourself. Check out our newest pages...
Hard to find: Here is a helpful outline of SML serial Numbers: S.M.L.
Serial Numbers: 0001
– 3000 / 1934 to 1940 3000
– 5500 / 1940 to 1945 5500
– 8000 / 1945 to 1950 8000
– 12000 / 1950 to 1955 12000
– 16000 / 1955 to 1960 16000
– 19000 / 1960 to 1965 22000
– 24000 / 1970 to 1975 24000
– 26000 / 1975 to 1980 26000 – 27000 / 1980 to 1982 Here is a helpful outline of Keilwerth serial Numbers: Keilwerth Serial Numbers: 1925: 0-800 1933-5: 9000 1941: 18,500 1947: #20,000 1953: #23,000 1958: #28,000 1960: #38,000 1962: #43,000 1964: #49,000 1966: #55,000 1971: #69,000 1978: #79,000 1986: #91,000 1993: #99,100 1996: #104,000 1998: #109,000 2004: #119,000 Keilwerth made The New King and Tone King as their main brand names, from 1932 to 1969 or so, but there were always stencils, like Edgeware and later Couf. Here are few of the other names you may find on Keilwerth made horns. The New King and Tone King saxes were identical except for a high F# key on the tone king model, but keilwerth marketed the Tone King as the "deluxe" Pro model and the New King as the "standard" Pro model Known Keilwerth Stencils: Couf Superba 1 & 2 Royalist Conn DJH Buffet Edgeware Marco Vincent Albert Martelle Winsall Tam Bundy Special Armstrong Heritage King Tempo Champion Calvert Deluxe Silvertone Hammerschmidt (sopranos) Jean Barre Artist (seen Alto) Bundy (H&A Selmer)
Keilwerth copiers, such as Amati, Dörfler & Jörka (1949 to 1968, then purchased by Keilwerth) and B&S H.Genet Roxy Jubilee Voss Silvertone Rene Dumont Keilwerth relatives: Max Keilwerth and Richard Keilwerth (Graslitz) made saxes under the names:
Weltklang (baritones only) Senator Hohner
Here is a handy chart for King zephyr series: Zephyr
and Zephyr Special s/n
170xxx to 180xxx s/n 180xxx to 237xxx Zephyr Special: s/n 200xxx to 280xxx s/n 237xxx to 305xxx s/n 305xxx to 423xxx s/n 423xxx to 540xxx 1945 was the beginning of King's Super 20 (s/n 272xxx)
Past Work Schedule 2010: 4-13-10 Gold Plated The Martin Soprano 64,xxx: Done 4-18-10 Silver The Martin Tenor 184K "USMC": Done 5-7-10 Buffet SDA Alto 18K: Done 5-14-10 Armstrong Low A Baritone: Done 5-25-10 Conn 10M: Done 5-28-10 Martin Committee 2 Alto: WWS Done 6-1-10 J. Keilwerth 1934 New King Alto: Nickle plated Done 6-11-10 The Martin Alto: Done 6-17-10 Silver Buescher Big B: Silver plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos for customer. Done 6-24-10 1948 Conn 6m Naked Lady: Done 7-2-10 Buescher 400 Tenor #505K: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Prestini rivetless dome metal resos. WWS Done 7-8-10 1928 Silver Conn Chu Alto: Customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. DONE 7-20-10 King Super 20 Alto #415K: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. WWS Done 7-28-10 Conn 6m: customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. Done 7-28-10 1945 The Martin Tenor: WWS horn 153K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Seamless Domed resos. WWS Done 8-5-10 Buescher Aristo "156" Tenor #338K: Done 8-12-10 1953 SML Rev D #10K: Chadd horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads, some Premium upgrades, minor fabrication work, and some plating restorations. Done 8-13-10 1972 Selmer Mark VI alto #208K: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads and natural cork throughout. WWS Done 8-27-10 1940 Conn 26M alto: Customer horn gets a Premium Vintage Rebuild with White Roos & Seamless Flat resos. Done 9-7-10 1952 King Zephyr Alto: WWS horn 328K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild. WWS Done 9-23-10 Buescher Big B Tenor #322K: WWS horn gets a Standard Buescher Rebuild with Buescher snap in pads and natural cork throughout for customer. Done 6-17-10 Silver Buescher Aristocrat #280k: Silver plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos. WWS Done 10-15-10 1960s LeBlanc Rationale Tenor: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads. Sarge/WWS Done 10-22-10 1953 SML Rev D #10K: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads for customer. Done 10-26-10 1940 Martin Comm 2 alto: Chadd horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild with Presini pads, some Premium upgrades for customer. Done 11-4-10 Buescher Aristocrat Alto #345k: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos. WWS Done 11-4-10 Buescher Big B Aristocrat Tenor #317k: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos. WWS Done 11-18-10 Silver Conn Chu alto: Customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. Childs Done 12-2-10 Buescher Big B Aristocrat Alto: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Buescher snap-in Rebuild with original metal resos. WWS Done 12-14-10 The Martin Tenor #208k: WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos and rivet center. WWS Done 12-17-10 Nickel Conn Chu Tenor: WWS horn gets a Vintage French Standard Rebuild with plastic resos. WWS Done
Please e-mail or phone us for additional descriptions or JPEG's of
any of our current inventory, or if you don't see something you would like to have, let us
know. We have a long list of customers you can
e-mail for references. (see References Page) ~~Chadd&Steve~~ Past Work 2011: 1-1-2011 H.Couf Superba 1 Tenor: Customer horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Pisoni rivetless dome metal resos. Thaut Done 1-4-11 1938 Buescher Aristocrat series 1 Tenor: WWS horn gets a Vintage Buescher Snap-in Rebuild with natural cork throughout. WWSDone 1-19-11 1940s Buescher Aristocrat Alto: Customer's alto neck gets pull-down repair and dents removed. Garcia Done 1-19-11 Conn "tranny" Chu alto: WWS horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with natural cork throughout and Sherry Huntly Engraving. WWS Done 1-28-11 Conn 6m alto: Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with natural cork throughout. Harford Done 2-5-11 King Super 20 alto - pearls: WWS horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with premuim extras. WWS Done 2-22-11 King Super 20 tenor - pearls: Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with oversized Noyak resos on Black Saxgourmet Roo pads. Atkinson Done 2-23-11 Buescher 400 Tenor 429K: WWS horn gets a Vintage Buescher Snap In rebuild. WWS Done 3-10-11 Conn Gold C-Soprano 98K: WWS horn gets a rebuild for customer with silver Resotechs to be gold plated & Premium Upgrade. Gast Done 4-7-11 King Super 20 tenor --full pearls: Sax gets a Vintage Rebuild with premium extras and seamless flat resos. Sarge Done 4-14-11 Conn Chu tranny tenor: Customer horn gets a Vintage Rebuild with oversized Resotech resos on Black Saxgourmet Roo pads and a Premium Upgrade and New stainless steel springs. Mattina Done 4-21-11 Buffet S-1 Tenor: Sax gets a Vintage Rebuild with premium extras and seamless flat resos. Sarge Done 5-10-11 Vintage YAS-62 purple label: Customer horn gets a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos. Tebo Done 5-13-11 Vintage Dolnet #24K: WWS horn gets a French Standard rebuild with Flat Metal resos. WWS Done 5-19-11 Selmer Mark VI alto: Customer horn gets a Silver Restoration with a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos and full Spring Replacement. Zax In Progress 6-3-11 Selmer Mark VI Tenor: Customer horn gets a French Standard rebuild with plastic dome resos and swedging. Layer Done 6-20-11 Silver Buescher TrueTone IV Alto: Customer horn gets a Vintage Standard rebuild with Buescher Snap In Pads. Tarvin Done 7-1-11 King Saxello customer horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild. Zax Done 7-15-11 Silver Conn curved Soprano: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild after chemical Lacquer stripping, for customer. Luchtan Done 7-29-11 Silver Conn 26M alto: WWS horn gets Rebuilt and some much needed TLC. WWS Done 8/7/11--8/13/11 TIME OFF 8-15-11 1935 Conn 10M tenor: WWS horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. Oleru Done 8-16-11 The Martin Tenor 1953: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild. Neilo Done 8-29-11 King Zephyr alto: WWS (OS) horn gets a Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. harrson/Keller Done 9-1-11 Maintenance & School Prep
9-10-11 Maintenance & School Prep
9-20-11 Martin Committee II alto: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild.Siboliban Done
10-1-11 Martin Committee I alto: Customer horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild + a new custom screw rod. Siboliban Done
10-18-11 Martin Committee III "The Martin alto": WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer. Zink Done
11-1-11 H&A Selmer Bundy Baritone: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild for customer with domed metal resos for customer. Snowhill Done
11-13-11 Mark VI alto: Silver Restoration Returns from Andersons. Customer horn gets a with a French Standard rebuild with Metal dome resos and full Spring Replacement with Rose Gold Plating Accents. Zax Done
12-6-11 Buescher Big B Baritone: WWS horn gets Vintage Standard Rebuild with metal-backed pads and natural cork throughout. Aaberg
12/22--31/11 TIME OFF
| If you wish to schedule a rebuild, or purchase one of our saxes (and it still needs to be rebuilt), send us a 50% deposit to hold your place in my work schedule. We work from a published schedule (see left margin) so that your sax will only be out of your possession a couple weeks, while i do the actual work, it does not have to just sit on the shop floor, until it's turn comes up... you send it to arrive on schedule and we return it on schedule.
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ABOUT REBUILDS: (Descriptions first, for pricing scroll down) WorldwideSax offers complete rebuilds as well as total restorations for all brands and models of saxophones, including coordinating Silver plating and custom engravings, always making the sax's vintage properties a priority. We have a variety of the finest pads available on the market. For our "French Standard" rebuilds, we use the 0.160" Hermes NS premium standard series sheepskin pads w/plastic dome reso's, natural cork throughout and French amber shellac to install the pads. My "French Standard" rebuild is patterned after Selmer and Buffet rebuilds, using the best of techniques from both. We can also adapt the French Standard to various vintage setups, like King, Buffet, and Conn, and then i call it a "Vintage Rebuild". The vintage rebuild is a standard rebuild with a substitution of flat metal resonators, instead of French plastic reso's. In some cases like Martin rebuilds, i use felt in places that other companies used cork, others like King, Buffet and Conn used flat metal resos. i.e. flat metal reso's were used on many zephyrs and most super 20's. There is no "up charge" for this. If not instructed otherwise, we will do it automatically.
Want the Best? Add our Premium Upgrade: Our "Premium Rebuilds" offer you the fastest & quietest action we can offer. We continue to use what is considered one of the very best pads made, the 0.160" Prestini "Hermes" NS premium standard series pad as standard with other pad upgrade options. But most importantly, Teflon and Ultrasuede friction reduction, as well as Techcork bumpers, high-density black felt and disks, and synthcork quieting, throughout the rebuild. We specifically dedicate ourselves to choose which cork/ teflon product (all in varying thickness) will work best for each moving component on your specific saxophone's model.*Techcork: dense, rubber-like compound, waterproof, does not compress over time like Natural Cork. *Synthcork: spongy, rubber compound that is an excellent noise reducer/shock absorber. *Teflon/Felt: ultra smooth combination we purposefully use back-to-back for the fastest action. *....and other company secrets. We also special order several other styles and brands of pads: you can upgrade the premium rebuild with pads made of Kidskin or Kangaroo skin, order Buescher metal backed pads, Conn Reso-pads... you name it, as well as several varieties of resonators on our top of the line jobs, including, Pisoni rivetless domes, flat metal reso's and Selmer metal reso's. As a further option you can have special resos added to the premium rebuild, such as Noyak and Resotech Solid Silver (or brass), flat or slightly domed resonators...etc. The list goes on and on. Read on... All Total Rebuilds include the following: We will disassemble the sax, wash it out, or "silver tarnish-remover dip" it and remove the old pads and corks. Remove minor/accessible dents to the body and neck (1/2 hr labor included), also remove any reddish oxidation, straighten the key cups, spin and straighten steels/screws and align posts, where needed. We disassemble the key rollers and clean and lube them. Dremel wire wheel clean/remove rust/corrosion, polish rods with ultra fine wet-dry paper and then oil the rods and steels/screws with heavy high purity hydrocarbon oil and lube pivot screws with synthetic high purity hydrocarbon grease (or synth oils or Lithium grease, by request). We re-tension springs or replace them where needed. Install new pads with your choice of French shellac, or if you request it, the newest and best/most resilient amber, hi-temp synthetic pad glue on the market. Install all corks and bumpers (including neck cork) and felts and then align the posts and reassemble it. Finally pads are leveled and height set and it is thoroughly play tested, over a three day period. We do not relacquer or buff saxophones.
(we can't do Credit Cards in the shop but YES through PAYPAL) 1. Cash: self explanatory, in-person option. 2. Check: can be mailed in or written while here in the shop. 3. Wire Transfers: These are becoming a frequent use here due to Paypal fees and will generally only cost about $30 ($15 is WWS receiving payment). Payments clearing the Banks can take 3-4 days. 4. Paypal: is the fastest online payment method, but we have to add their 3.45% fee. Offers you the ability to put it on your Credit Card and also E-Checks have a flat fee but also require time to clear the Banks.
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You can use the prices below to put together the features you want your sax to have: Sorry, we prefer not to sell our WWS stock horns in "as is" condition. If we get it and it's not "near new", we will automatically completely rebuild it, in time. Also, do to the busy schedule we keep, we don't have time to do P/C work ( that is... pad repairs on your horns, we always squeeze in time to keep WWS horns in great shape for our previous customers) It's a small 2 man shop and we are always super busy. All Pricing Information as of January 2011 Our Vintage Standard: 749.00 for lacquered Altos, and Sopranos; 899.00 for silver 899.00 for lacquered Tenors and
C-melodies; 1075.0 1199.00 for lacquered Baris; 1600.00 for silver
Shipping Prices/Delivery Charges: We have found that shipping costs just keep escalating, so here is a range for boxing up and shipping various saxes, shipped by UPS, though our local shipper Broadway Postal Services.
Soprano - west coast 35.00-east coast, 53.00 Alto - west coast 47.00-east coast, 64.00 Tenor - west coast 52.00-east coast (e.g. Schenectady NY), 94.87 Bari price is variable, please ask. Shipping a Soprano or Alto to Europe via USPS about 160.00, Shipping bigger horns (that won't work for usps guidelines) via UPS/Fedex/DHL, about $372.57 alto, $456.89 tenor, 525.00 Bari.
Want the Best? Add our Premium Upgrade for $299Our "Premium Rebuilds" offer you the fastest & quietest action we can offer. The most important difference is Teflon and Ultrasuede friction reduction, as well as Techcork bumpers, high-density black felt and disks, and synthcork quieting, throughout the rebuild. We specifically dedicate ourselves to choose which cork/ teflon product (all in varying thickness) will work best for each moving component on your specific saxophone.*Techcork: dense, rubber-like compound, waterproof , does not compress over time like Natural Cork.*Synthcork: spongy, rubber compound that is an excellent noise reducer/shock absorber. *Teflon/Felt: ultra smooth combination we purposefully use back-to-back for the fastest action. *....and other company secrets.
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We stock 3 high-end pads; NO cheap pads. All others can be ordered per request. 1. Prestini NS (non-stick) series pads (one of the best) 2. Saxgourment Black leather Kangaroo skin pads 3. Buescher original Metal-backed pads
Our Standard Rebuilds always feature an above-standard pad:
If you are looking for
a horn that is boosted to the max with hard pads and huge reso's, for hard
Bop, Rock, Rhythm and Blues and electric Blues music,
add
a Premium
rebuild for an extra 299.00.
Then add Saxgourmet kangaroo skin pads:
These are a 85.00 (alto) or 101.00 (tenor) step-up from Prestini pads (contact us for bari pricing) and of course Teflon friction reduction throughout the sax and Ultrasuede, Synthcork and other special synthetic bumper and quieting materials is included in the premium add-on.
We keep your sax original while offering your personal desires!
We are expert at rebuilding Buescher horns. We offer a couple styles of "Vintage Buescher Special" rebuilds. Keep your vintage Buescher set up the way it was intended to be, also a 299.00 step up from a French Standard rebuild. We know several custom options for Buescher rebuilds...none involve losing your snap-in domes! We can snap metal backed pads in, just like the factory did. We can also shellac the metal backed pads in, for greater reliability.... and finally, we can shellac any custom pad, like saxgourmet pads, into the pad cup and snap the dome back on afterwards. (i.e.; Saxgourmet Roo pads with original snaps {sometimes with or w/o metal backing}--shellac or glued in. This option is basically for any custom pad Rebuild on a Buescher.)
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We also feature a Vintage Standard rebuild, which is essentially the same as the French Standard, but a change on Resos--vintage style flat metal reso's, with a rivet in the center. It's the same price as our "Standard". Flat metal reso's came stock from the factory on Buffets, Kings, Martins and Conns at one time or another in the history of these companies. it's actually Sarge's favorite/recommended choice for any American horn. EXAMPLE:
rivet center on Saxgourmet Roo pads
For example: Let's say you want your alto to get the Premium Rebuild with Saxgourmet pads and Selmer reso's on your Alto. It would be $749.00 (standard rebuild, lacquer) , + $299.00 (premium upgrade) + $85.00 (saxgourmet pad upgrade) = $1133.00, for what we feel is the finest custom repad available today. Another one of my personal favorites is the Reso-Tech We have just added this new Resonator to our options:
Here's a pic of the rivetless flat metal reso's. i really like these, they are very light and won't slow down your key action the way a heavy reso, like a brass Noyak, or some other types will. They are now available as a 45.00 step-up. Chadd likes these...they look sexy, sleek are are light weight!
We also offer: (click "links" for photo examples)
$175 for soprano, $200.00 for alto, $285.00 for tenor, $410 for Baritone. (The epoxy ones are tough and take about 4 applications--add extra time by the hour. Talk about work!)
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Plating Services We now have an alternative to Andersons Plating, for smaller projects.
That's right, we now have a: GOLD
STAR Pro plating system
Pricing: these are basic prices that assume the sax part is already stripped and shined. Note: for gold plating, the very best results come from silver plating the brass first, then plating over the top of that with gold... in that case, combine the prices. Both Silver
and Gold have gone up considerably in price, i will continue to offer it as long
as i can, but i have had to up my prices...
***Ask about pricing for other projects you may have in mind.
Terms you may have heard: "Overhaul" This usually means removing every dent, buffing, re-lacquering, spring replacement and repadding. We do not do overhauls. We can do a restoration, which is a plating service and combine it with a total repad, re-engraving (sent out) and whatever work you desire but we do not relacquer or buff saxophones.
Custom Request? Didn't find the info? Don't hesitate to ask. We are Restorers. We confidently feel like we can make just about anything happen for your needs; order parts, pieces, custom keywork, engravings, ...etc.
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