MEEUWSEN MOUTHPIECES

I am a high school Band Director, working Trumpet Player, Family Guy, and have been doing mouthpiece work since 1978... In 1978 I went to The ITG convention and had the great fortune to meet Gerald Endsley, who makes mouthpieces and does some publishing. He was nice enough to let me sit at his table, and learn about everything I know about how to make Backbore reamers, cup cutters, rim threading, mouthpiece copying etc. He drew me many diagrams, and over the course of several hours over that week, I learned a lot. I had at the time a unimat lathe, (two actually) and also an old atlas/craftsman 6 inch lathe that had all kinds of problems to iron out. I learned a lot about making mouthpieces with those.