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A Unique Interview on How to Repair Music Boxes and Other Mechanical Collectibles

Ballerina Music Boxes, inlaid music is repair work, everything from full
boxes, musical jewelry boxes, cylinder restoration to part jobs, particularly
music boxes, and antique music boxes are comb and cylinder work. I've got a very
delicate and beautiful. As most music box good team of pinners (the people who put
and antique collectors know, in order to the new pins into the cylinders for me to
preserve them, sometimes repair and finish) and after advertising in the MBSI
restoration is needed. For this special Journal, I'm beginning to pick up new
work, it is important to choose a company individual work from customers in the USA
that is reputable and an expert in this as well as my regular trade work."2. What
area. With a little research, these made you decide to start a business
companies usually can be found no matter specializing in antique musical box
what part of the world you are in. One repairs and restoration? What was your
such company and expert is Mr. Jim inspiration or motivation?"I trained as a
Weir.Jim does all kinds of antique clock repairer. One day a customer
musical box repairs and restoration. His brought in a 15.1/2" Polyphon and asked
work includes comb repairs, releading and me to `fix it'. That's where it
tuning, dampering, cylinder repairing, started."3. What have been your major
and organ bridge work. Jim also offers challenges/obstacles over the years? How
all manner of musical box work on disc did you overcome them? "To reverse your
and cylinder music boxes.I recently had question, I'm still trying to figure out
the privilege of interviewing Jim about how to overcome them. My worst problem,
his musical box repair and restoration or `obstacle' if you like has been
business, which, by the way, is operated myself. Some of the work I've done has
out of Scotland. Let's discover more been fairly intense; taking it on as if
about Jim; his hopes, and get an in depth it were some kind of personal challenge
look as to what it is like to operate a has not perhaps been the wisest thing to
music box repair and restoration do. I'm largely self-taught, and I'm not
business.Jim started off with saying this a good teacher, or a particularly good
about himself:"What can I tell you about pupil come to that."4. What specific
myself? Well, I'm 56 and have been types of online or offline marketing
working on musical boxes for the best tools are you using successfully?"I'm not
part of 30 years. My wife and I live in sure how successful it will be; it's
Scotland with our two daughters; one's at early days yet but I've just started to
school and one's at University. Depending advertise in the MBSI Journal. I've
on workload my wife and both daughters picked up a couple of jobs that way. I
help with pinning cylinders; I guess it's don't advertise anywhere else, and I
a family business really?"1. Could you don't use any online marketing tools."5.
describe your online and offline business Have you always envisioned yourselves
operations, your services and/or products doing what you are doing now? Has it
in detail?"I've used the Internet to find always been a passion? What did you "want
workshop supplies, including the machine to be when you grew up?"No I've not. When
I use for grinding and finishing repined I was at school, I wanted to be a train
music box cylinders. Other than that, my driver. Musical box work has become a
business is primarily offline. Most of it passion though; trying to get the best
comes to me from people who already know possible sound out of a musical box is
me, although I've recently started part of what drives me."JIm will continue
advertising in the MBSI Journal. I hardly to give us an inside peek of the music
ever buy and sell musical boxes; I have a box repair and restoration world in part
good workshop but not a retail shop or 2 of this article series.I'd like to
display counter. I have checked out personally thank Jim for taking the time
potential purchases for customers, to share with us this valuable
telling them what level of repair work information about his business as well as
they are likely to get into before they letting us get a sneak peak into the
buy a specific musical box, and where a world of music box repairs and
customer is looking for a particular type restoration. Jim Weir can be reached at
of box I've sometimes been able to find or by telephone/fax at 01144-1575-572647.
one, but other than that my main business




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