I have an old Selmer Signet tenor that has a lot of dents in the neck. I'd like to learn how to get them out so I can add this to my small arsenal of repair skills. How do you remove neck dents, and what tools do you need?

I assume you are placing your neck in you accessory compartment so your mouthpieces, reed clippers, metal read cases and the like are banging into it, which scratches and cause those annoying little dents.

Sorry pal...those are pretty much there to stay.

Sax techs have special shaped rods with steal balls they use to go inside the neck and pushes the big tents out - with good results, but the small shallow dings are the ones no one can really do much about.

It is my personal feeling this is an error on the manufactures part. They ought to get cases with separate neck compartments or pack a padded neck bag with the instrument. Most young players don't realize what is happening to their neck until after the damage is done.

Music teachers ought to mention to students to pack their necks in a couple of thick gym socks if they are too cheap to get a neck pouch for it.

Good neck pouches cost around $30.00.

There is a lot of basic stuff almost anyone can fix on a woodwind, but sax neck work should only be done be a qualified sax tech...and only if that sax tech has to proper tools for it.

It is impossible to know what can or cannot be done with your neck without seeing it, so take it to someone in your area who is good at that stuff. They will tell you straight up if it can be fixed by them.

Sorry this happened. I know you didn't want to hear this.

I am NOT a repairman, but have watched as dents were removed from a neck by putting in some balls and shaking it. I am not sure about the exact procedure and equipment, but it did get pretty good results.

necks are hard to do.....we have every neck dent rod we have ever seen for sale in our shop, and it's still not always enough....we also have a flex cable tool that I designed with the late Gary Ferree that uses barrel shaped cable balls to support the tube so I can burnish the dents out.....I sometimes use shaker balls as well.....no one method always works, and sometimes it's almost impossible to get perfect results...I have also found that the magnetic dent removal system does NOT work very well on necks

while not exactly dent removal, how easy is it to change the angle on a neck?

It's possible to change the neck angle, but you may have to relocate the key, alter the brace if there is one.