...until Mrs. bloke tossed her grand finale $h!t - a couple of beat-up bari saxes - at me...bent-down necks, mushed-in posts, dents, missing parts, etc.
One is an ancient German-made (H. Couf) Bundy. It was missing the lower stack clothes guard and screws. Mrs. bloke can come up with a couple of brass screws, but "making a replacement clothes guard" is something that she would typically dump on me.
OK...I could tell that the missing clothes guard had been big-assed, because the screw mounts were large ...(well: what would one expect...?? Deutschstark!!!...etc.) and well away from the keywork the guard was designed to protect...
...so I figured that it had to have been shaped as pictured below.
...There are some trashed bows from a jimbo 200 body - off of which I have been meat-carving. This was cut from the small end of the upper bow (roughly 4" long tube) which was really good, because the small end of hydraulically-formed bows are going to be considerably thicker...and this thing needed to be stronger than typical .6mm brass sheet metal.
I didn't measure anything - other than the 3-1/2" hole spacing. It should do just fine.
It's even shiny.
...and the funkyness of it matches the rest of the instrument just about completely. bloke "Summer is not a time for perfectly-duplicated replacement parts. Rather, it's the time to fix something and quickly move on to the next trashed horn."
