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Below are the links to
the various pages of the site, link access changes as you visit other pages, if
you get stuck, use your back button to come back to the home page and click
around again.
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. I
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.
E-mail "the sarge" 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).
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.
Check
out our new page all about relacquers
NEW!
WE
DO
GOLD AND
SILVER
ELECTRO-PLATING
That's
right, we now have a:
GOLD
STAR Pro plating system
The Industry's Premier Silver and Gold Plating System
Ask about having us Plate your Bell interior in 24
carat or ROSE
GOLD
Our Work Schedule
2010:
4-13-10 Gold
Plated The
Martin Soprano 64,xxx: WWS horn gets a
Vintage Standard Rebuild WWS 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 WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal
resos. WWS
Done
6-11-10 The
Martin Alto:
WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal resos. WWS
Done
6-17-10 Silver
Buescher
Big B: Silver plated WWS horn gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal
resos for customer. Burnham Done
6-24-10 1948
Conn 6m Naked Lady:
a Chadd horn #327K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with flat metal
resos and black Saxgourmet pads. Chadd 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. Gowin 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. Nordquist In
Progress
7-28-10 11945
The
Martin Tenor:
WWS horn 153K gets a Standard Vintage Rebuild with Seamless Domed
resos. WWS
In Progress
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 it's 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.
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Hard to find:
Here is a helpful outline of
SML serial Numbers:
Serial
Number / Year
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. #104,00
1998:
#109,000
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)
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
Zephyr, "Series I": s/n 170xxx to 180xxx
Zephyr, "Series II": s/n 180xxx to 237xxx
Zephyr, "Series III": s/n 237xxx to 305xxx
Zephyr, "Series IV": s/n 305xxx to 423xxx
Zephyr, "Series V": s/n 423xxx to 540xxx
Zephyr Special: s/n 200xxx to 280xxx
1945 was the beginning of King's Super
20's (s/n 272xxx)
and Zephyr "II"s (s/n 272xxx)
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World Wide Sax is
located in Everett , WA 98201
Email us for directions
or call us first.
We are open for business
T W T F Saturdays,
Sunday & Monday's off 10:00-4:00 PST.
Pacific time ONLY if you call! 425-257-0124 (cell)
How to find us in
Everett:
We are at the intersection of California
St. and Baker St. A few blocks East of the main drag, Broadway.
If you are coming from the South, It's easiest to take the (Downtown Everett) I-5 Pacific St
/ City Center. Exit (Exit 193), turn left onto Pacific and go to Fulton. Turn right there
and follow it to California St, then turn left and go to Baker.
If you are coming from the
North, then take the Everett Av / Hwy
2 (Exit 194) and turn right onto Everett Av, go to Baker, turn left and look for
California St.
For the map oriented, see below:
That's about 6-8 blocks folks, don't go too far.
  
After several years in Seattle we reestablished ourselves in
2000, in Everett ( 20 minutes north of Seattle ). Pam and I live in the house on the corner and are
almost always here, but if you want to make an appointment, you have to book a
day and time first. We
will endeavor to have all the saxes that are rebuilt on display, ready to play
and the rest are in the loft above the shop, if you want to see the "before
rebuild" horn.
People often say, "oh, I expected it to be a big retail
store downtown, or something"... Uh uh, this is my repair shop.
I have a lot of great horns, and most of them are waiting for me to rebuild
them, but you are welcome to try out anything I have (but only at 2-3 horns per
visit...that the rules folks, i don't make 'em...no wait, i do make
'em). Call first.
INFO AND
ORDERS
All our Saxes have a 3 day trial period, with a money back guarantee,
less shipping and handling charges. Same applies for mouthpieces. Ebay
auctions do not have a trial period, as all auctions are final, lay a ways do
not have a trial period, but we do guarantee the product to be as
described.
How it
works: You
must pay for the sax and shipping (your choice of shipping, as you pay for it)
in advance, then we ship it to you. Once you receive it you have three
days to play it and decide if you love it, or want to return it. You must
let me know via email or phone, by the third days end, or it is sold. if
you decide to return it, it must be packaged same as it was received and
shipped back on the fourth day (or sooner). As soon as it is received
here, you will be refunded all but your shipping and any paypal , etc. fees, and
our small handling fee (See below) asap. Deposits received for pending sales to customers, of our
WWS stock, are not refundable.
How
else does the 3 day trial return work? we can't just " rent"
(send a horn out, with a check for surety) horns for a weekend for free ( it
happens way more often than people think). So, at this time we will have
a "25.00 for a handling fee" policy on any return
and then the 5.00 per day for returning late, UNLESS a sale is made sometime
later, for any horn.
Please e-mail
with any product questions or call , 10:00 -
4:00 pst Tue,Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat.
We do not have a credit
card machine in the shop. We can offer you these options.
We have received dozens of International
Bank Wire Transfers as well and can email you our bank info, so that you can
transfer a deposit.
Of course checks and cash are always accepted, but if you wish
to pay by credit card, it has to be done online.
We now accept credit card payments through
PayPal:
WWS
has completed
hundreds of transactions through Pay Pal. They even have a
"references" system.
We
don't accept credit cards in the shop, but you can use your credit card
to pay though Pay Pal... just log
into your account and use the "send money" tab to make
your deposit, or payment. Please add a note in the message area,
that states what it's for, with serial or other description, if possible.
They
accept more than just ebay purchases, they allow you to send money to
anyone. They have good reviews, we have used them
many times and they give the best rates.
However,
customers
choosing to use a Credit
Card (at pay pal)
are subject
to a
Handling Fee. Fee structure is set up as
follows (appx. 3.45% of total):
100-500.00
fee 3.40-17.00
501-1000.00
fee 17.00-34.00
1001-2000.00
fee 35.00-65.00
2001-3000.00
fee 66.00-102.00.
This fee
is designed to offset the cost of using charge services (currently appx 3.4%
of transaction total) and the extra
paperwork, not to add in any way to our profit margin, but rather to
keep overall prices from rising.
You may call 425-257-0124, to reserve a sax until you can arrange
payment, then have us UPS or mail it to you any where in the world. In
order to keep overhead and prices low, we have no costly 1-800 number, so E-mail your
questions to worldwidesax@gmail.com and we'll e-mail or call you
back, to answer any and all detailed inquires.
All our Saxes have a 3 day trial period, with a money back guarantee,
less shipping and handling charges. Same applies for mouthpieces. Ebay
auctions do not, as all auctions are final, but we do guarantee the product to be as
described.
Customers
returning a saxophone
from a 3
day trial
are subject to a 15.00 Handling Fee (for cleaning and restocking). If
the horn arrives late, Late fee structure is set up as follows:
1 day
late, extra fee 10.00
(so 15.00 handling
+ 10.00 late fee)
2 days
late, extra fee 15.00
3 days
late, fee 20.00... etc, add 5 dollars for additional each day over 3
days, and
a fee of 2% of the saxophone or mouthpieces website price, until the
14th day passes. No
exceptions. There can be no returns
whatsoever, after two weeks have passed.
We do
accept Lay a Way's, for 90 days maximum, with no finance charge.
Deposits are a minimum of 25%. You must agree to pay for the item within
the 90 day period, or forfeit your deposit.
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WorldWideSax Consignment Sales Policies
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Consignment
sales are always “AS IS” items. We
do not do any work on them, unless specified at the time of sale and paid for
in advance by customer.
We
do however, play each sax and rate them as:
1
“Playable as is”.
2
“Needs adjustments to play correctly”
3
“Needs rebuild to play correctly”
Consignment
sales have no guarantees, however you do have a three (3) day “Trial
Period” in which to decide if you want to keep the consignment, or return
it. You are responsible for
shipping and insurance both ways. There
are no restocking fees and all funds received will be refunded, except for
shipping and pre approved repairs.
WWS
shop policy:
We are a small shop and can not store your instrument for over 90 days.
if you leave your instrument over 90 days and we can not get a hold of you at
the number/information you left us, we will assume you are no longer
interested in your sax and we will either sell it, or assume ownership of
it. No exceptions. Every shop in business has this policy, most
say 30 days.
It is your obligation to keep in touch with us, not ours to find you.
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.
Unlike some web shops, we will try to list all of our current inventory and prices so you
can see and shop here in our virtual store. We have a long list of customers you can
e-mail for references.
Thanks, for visiting World Wide Sax.
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