week 6

 my messy work bench. That trumpet is my mouthpipe project.

 The old mouthpipe next to the new one. I had to make the bigger end even bigger so it would fit the outer tube. I did so with dent balls, and you can clearly see the ridges on the tube on this picture. What a complete failure. Anyways, Greg was nice and got me a different one (not the universal one).

 This is the new new mouthpipe. It's more red and pretty. The time I spent on getting that thing straight and nice was, I'm gonna say, worth it.

 OH! WHAT IS THIS?? This was waiting on my bench Thursday morning. Wow, I was so excited. This is my project trumpet. A trumpet from an actual customer that I have to fix up. Let's see how it looks inside the case.

 pretty, pretty, pretty. It's pretty loose in it's case, which makes me a bit concerned.

 let's check the brand. It says Victory. Never heard of it. None the less the bell has very pretty engravings, flowers and leafs.

 oh no! Dents. Poor thing. Those are stem dents. They don't look bad compared to what some of my classmates have to deal with though.

 Pretty buttons! The buttons probably have pearl buttons, instead of plastic which is most common. Buttons don't go through the chem cleaning so that's fine.

 What is this? An extra part that can come off? I was really confused, but apparently this is a trumpet that can change the tuning from Bb to A.

 Ugh, grime and white/green scale. This will go away in the chemical cleaning.

 Some bad scale my project trumpet had.

 The part that was supposed to come off was a bit stuck, so I put corrosion cracker on it, and in few hours it came off. Just gentle pulling, because I don't want to cause damage when trying to fix something.

 Looks like I was trying to take a picture of the casings. But there is some scale. Note, all the pistons were in the wrong casings.

 Oh, I discovered more dents. What am I getting myself into?

Pretty Red Wing in autumn colours. I think there are 2-3 churches just on that street.