Wilkinson Percussion Services

A collection of accessory percussion items repaired. The Flexatone needed new spring steel for the clappers, the taxi horn needed a new bulb, and the bell tree needed a new frame. The other bit of bracketry is part of studio storage that broke. A collection of skills this job. Metallurgy (tempering the spring steel for bending), welding, and adhesives. Now if I could just get the right sized phenolic bar for another repair.

Alrighty, the repairs and modifications are complete. There was some damage to the glue joints on the low end that I repaired. There was some sag in the bar rails that I added adjustment screws to compensate, and most of all I adapted a standing desk kit to make the height adjustment electric.

Working on this marimba end piece. Most of the glue joints had failed and there were steel braces holding these joints together. Once the glue dries overnight, I'll finish some tweaks to the instrument frame, then begin prototyping the electric height adjustment.

Slowly but surely, I'm taking steps to resume work for WPS. A major step for that was building a work bench. This one is a doozy. It's in the second garage space, so I designed it to fold up against the wall on French cleats.