Tools for the Job

Body Straightening and Dent Work

  • Ferree’s Z6 synthetic lubricant
  • Holland H3 bench vise
  • Ferree’s N93 sax body mandrel (slotted)
  • Ferree’s N76 flute body mandrel
  • Ferree’s N74 dent rod
  • Ferree’s N81 sax dent balls/barrels alto & tenor
  • Ferree’s N73 sax gooseneck dent rod 
  • Ferree’s N80B dent balls
  • Allied dent balls and barrels
  • Ferree’s F10 planishing hammers
  • Rawhide mallets, 1” & 2”
  • Wooden mallet
  • 16oz rubber mallet
  • Burnisher
  • Ferree’s Z22 lacquer strip
  • Nikolas #2105 lacquer
  • Music medic pad cup/tone hole pliers large & small
  • Music medic half round pliers
  • Tone hole level gages
  • Tone hole lift set
  • Rotary tone hole refacing set

Tools for Key Work, Corks, Felts & Padding

  • Knipex swedging pliers
  • Music medic swedging pliers, thin           
  • Ferree’s F81 swedging tool
  • Set of Ferree’s D29 tubular hinge shorteners
  • Set of Ferree’s E47 pivot screw reamers
  • Ferree’s D15 pivot screw countersink
  • Ferree’s G21 key leveling set
  • Ferree’s F27 key bending levers
  • Ferree’s N78 flute pad cup tools
  • Votaw & Ferree’s hinge tube rod assortment
  • High Speed Steel taps and dies
  • SAE & Metric thread pitch gage 
  • Roche-Thomas key oil
  • Post pulling pliers long & short
  • Post swedging pliers
  • Brass jawed parallel pliers
  • Ferree’s duckbill pliers
  • Ferree’s natural sheet cork, tech cork & tech felt
  • 12 piece hollow punch set; 1/8th-3/4th”
  • Ferree’s felt bumpers and disks
  • Razor blades
  • Contact cement
  • 8 piece set of sax pad irons
  • 6 piece set of clarinet pad irons
  • Ferree’s/Music Medic/Yamaha/Prestini sax, flute & clarinet pads
  • Music medic double ended pad slick
  • Ferree’s/Music medic shellac 
  • Music medic adhesive pellets (clar)
  • Music medic rivet punch
  • Bench anvil
  • Hot air torch 
  • Butane micro torch
  • Votaw tool fluorescent leak light
  • Blue steel springs
  • Allied whole needle spring removing pliers
  • Music medic parallel spring removing pliers
  • Spring hooks and pad slicks



Tools for Sax Neck and Flute Head Work

  • JL Smith leak isolator; alto, tenor & bari
  • Mitutoyo digital caliper
  • Shahe inside digital caliper
  • Ferree’s G14 inside caliper
  • Ferree’s H59 “Can Opener” tenon expander
  • Ferree’s H60, 61 & 62 mandrel tenon expanders for sax & flute
  • JL Smith sax tenon and receiver plugs for alto & tenor
  • Ferree’s H58 heavy duty tenon swedger
  • Allied flute & piccolo tenon swedgers



Soldering Equipment

  • Ferree’s G43 soldering jig
  • Butane torch
  • Tix low temp lead-free solder
  • Silver solder
  • 60/40 solder
  • Lloyd’s #6 soldering fluid
  • Triangular hollow scraper
  • Grobet diamond needle file set
  • Steel wool
  • Steel wire
  • Soldering clamps



Mouthpiece Measuring, Reface & Chamber Adjustment Tools

  • Theo Wanne digital tip gauge
  • Theo Wanne glass work plate
  • Theo Wanne glass mouthpiece gauge
  • Feeler gauges
  • 220-1000 grit sandpaper
  • Emery cloth
  • Grobet diamond needle file set
  • Personal collection of facing measurements of various makes and models