Rebuilding a Broken Kaspar 13 Clarinet Mouthpiece

I had this restoration project on my desk for a few days. The first thing was to find a suitable donor mouthpiece that had a rubber good enough to match the Kaspar. Finally, I found a damaged X5 (Riffault blank). Sacrificing a fixable mouthpiece is hard, but at least I could save this Kaspar Cicero, and I used the rest of the mouthpiece to replace a bite plate on a vintage Otto Link tenor mouthpiece.

[@pepebenitezortiz.clarinet]

Wow!!! Really a great job!!! Congratulation!!!!!

[@markszavin5050]

Thank you! If any mouthpiece is worth the time and effort this requires, this is it.

[@jerrykorten664]

I haven't seen a Kaspar with parallel side walls like that. All the ones I've worked on are slight "A" framed. Nice work though!

[@markszavin5050]

Thanks! Interesting, indeed. Most Ciceros have slightly angled walls. This one has a tighter focus than others I have worked on, this is probably a main component of this attribute.

[@garyhopkins4863]

That looks like a Chedeville blank.

[@markszavin5050]

I think you are right. The best Kaspars were made on Cheds!

[@jimis3167]

So, this process is like building an unfinished mouthpiece?

[@markszavin5050]

Yes, exactly. The most difficult part is determining the original length of the mouthpiece, but I could calculate it by following the direction of the remainings of the side rails. So I could find the length by aiming for the right window width on the top. Also, I worked on a few Kaspars before, so I was somewhat familiar with the tip rail shape and width.

[@jimis3167]

@@markszavin5050 I have a broken Ann Arbor which is just a little broken on the inside of the tip. I imagine it will be fairly easy for you as length didn't change at all, you'd only fill the upper rail gap. I also got an engraved B45 Lyre, that's more broken, length affected, like the Kaspar on this video. I'll send you these sometime, when I decide to fix them.

[@markszavin5050]

@@jimis3167 sure, we can discuss this on Messenger anytime!