EDIT: LATE ENTRY !!! 😳 - Button Beauty Bout: poll to the DEATH !!! 😱

[bloke]

TONIGHT'S HEADLINER IS A TAG-TEAM FIGHT TO THE DEATH OF SAE 8-32 FINGER BUTTONS !!!

A IN THIS CORNER are the small/econo/no-pearl buttons - The Punkett Quadruplets:



B IN THIS CORNER are the campy/vintage 1950's-1960's Reynolds (REAL M.O.P.) finger buttons - The Jets:



C IN THIS CORNER are the tuba-sized/Euro/Yorkish gigantic nickel finger buttons (with FAKE M.O.P., which would be replaced with REAL M.O.P.) finger buttons - The Bluton Boiz:



ONLY ONE SET will remain alive - to be installed on a .562" bore valveset (for a regular B-flat bass-trombone length) 4+2 -valve cimbasso !!!

WHAT SAY YE, TUBAFORUM FREAK JURY !?!?!?

[Three Valves]

C. Big buttons.

[cjk]

I like big buttons and I cannot lie.

[bloke]

After I painstakingly straightened those stems and centered them as best as I possibly could, those huge buttons missed articulating against each other by angstroms.

bloke "yeah...issues with the stroke...late voting...no one getting 50%..."

[arpthark]

I'd be worried the Bluton Boiz would start to chafe against one another mid-concert if I wiggled my fingers wrong.

[York-aholic]

I demand a recount.

[iiipopes]

I demand a recount.

Of the number of valves, or the number of votes, or both?

[Mary Ann]

I vote NO. Rotors.

[bloke]

I vote NO. Rotors.

There will be two of those.
I’m hoping that – unlike most tubas - this will actually be a musical instrument.

.562” bore rotors:
Other than the two that will appear on the left side for my left hand, I think I only have one or two more of those (several casings and rear caps, but only a couple of rotors and a couple of bearings), and I really don’t want to buy much of anything for this project… I actually do know where I can get some brand new ones cheap, but I would have to lap them into the casings - and then I would have to bend all of the cylindrical tubing coming out of them.

[Mary Ann]

That thar sounds like itsa gonna be a Franken-bloken tuba.
But if I had to play it wit me wee hands, I'd go for the great big buttons so mah fangers wouldn't get stuck between them.

[bloke]

That thar sounds like itsa gonna be a Franken-bloken tuba.
But if I had to play it wit me wee hands, I'd go for the great big buttons so mah fangers wouldn't get stuck between them.

I believe you could manage...It's just a King baritone horn valveset.

[bloke]

LATE ENTRY !!!

some black anodized aluminum buttons with m.o.p. (which I had forgotten)...

[bort2.0]

Did you run out of Sellmansberger finger buttons? Or are they not SAE 8-32?

[York-aholic]

Did you run out of Sellmansberger finger buttons? Or are they not SAE 8-32?

Correct on both accounts (I think).

[Three Valves]

Wait a minute... you just can't submit a late entry after nearly everyone has already voted!

[bloke]

Wait a minute... you just can't submit a late entry after nearly everyone has already voted!

Are you suggesting that – in this post-Orwellian/post-2020 world - that cheating is not allowed…!?!?

[bloke]

Did you run out of Sellmansberger finger buttons? Or are they not SAE 8-32?

I saved back a few, but I would just as soon not retap these stems to M4x.7

[matt g]

LATE ENTRY !!!

some black anodized aluminum buttons with m.o.p. (which I had forgotten)...

I like the size of these versus the “just barely” size of the big ones. The black anodized bit is a bit off, but nothing too distracting.

[bloke]

I guess I could do a lacquering theme with clear lacquer on the main parts of the instrument and black translucent lacquer on slides, caps, water keys, etc.

[Mary Ann]

Reminds me of my old boyfriend who bought a black Ninja. I asked why, because on a motorcycle it's not the best idea to be invisible to other drivers, and he said, "Because it's BITCHIN!" --- So I like the black buttons for the same reason.