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Hi there 
I'm wanting a great playing 8* metal link for Tenor
I'm thinking of buying a shop STM and sending it straight to a refacer
I'm after a fair amount of overtones and like a short roll-over baffle
Coltrane sounding but not quite as bright
Which tip opening is best to buy that would make this process easier for the refacer?
...and give them a useful amount of baffle material to work with?
What would be the limit in terms of tip opening changes?
Can a 5 go to 8*?
I went to my local shop recently and looked at all the STMs there, all the sizes they had from 5 to 7*
Some baffles were more step shaped, some more roll-over, all slightly different lengths.
Many had really misshaped and skewed sideways baffles!
There was a 6 that had what looked to me to have a nicely shaped baffle - a little higher and nicely curving roll-over baffle.
Could this go to 8* easy enough??
Or is it better I order an 8* in and use that as a blank?
But I'm worried the baffle shape could easily be all messy and this might be harder to correct...
and also not give the refacer any material to cut back and form a nice shaped roll-over baffle...
I would also give this 6 STM a play test to see if I like the sound and see if it's close in character to use as a start off.
The playability probably isn't as important in this case as I'll be getting it refaced anyways?
Probably the starting baffle shape is more important as we can't ADD material into this area if it's not there to start with....
Cool thanks any help appreciated
I'm wanting a great playing 8* metal link for Tenor
I'm thinking of buying a shop STM and sending it straight to a refacer
I'm after a fair amount of overtones and like a short roll-over baffle
Coltrane sounding but not quite as bright
Which tip opening is best to buy that would make this process easier for the refacer?
...and give them a useful amount of baffle material to work with?
What would be the limit in terms of tip opening changes?
Can a 5 go to 8*?
I went to my local shop recently and looked at all the STMs there, all the sizes they had from 5 to 7*
Some baffles were more step shaped, some more roll-over, all slightly different lengths.
Many had really misshaped and skewed sideways baffles!
There was a 6 that had what looked to me to have a nicely shaped baffle - a little higher and nicely curving roll-over baffle.
Could this go to 8* easy enough??
Or is it better I order an 8* in and use that as a blank?
But I'm worried the baffle shape could easily be all messy and this might be harder to correct...
and also not give the refacer any material to cut back and form a nice shaped roll-over baffle...
I would also give this 6 STM a play test to see if I like the sound and see if it's close in character to use as a start off.
The playability probably isn't as important in this case as I'll be getting it refaced anyways?
Probably the starting baffle shape is more important as we can't ADD material into this area if it's not there to start with....
Cool thanks any help appreciated