London Improved D Restoration

I picked up this nice piccolo on eBay. It is marked London Improved D. There is a filled crack in the barrel. Other than that it needed a clean and repad. I removed the keys and cleaned  and oiled the wood. Polished the keys, posts, key cups and pins.

The barrel crack was filled with an unknown brown substance but it did not leak. I decided to color the brown filling with a felt tip pen and then reinforce the repair with ca glue, then refinish a bit. I am very satisfied with the result. My repairs are not 100 percent invisible but  I like to leave a bit of a glue line. I can finish this down further but I think it will hold better..