I have not done a great job of chronicling dent repair in the past, but I will try to remember to take more "before" photos, and I will be updating this page soon with more photos and more commentary.  For now here are a few "before" and "after" photos from a recent job on a Mark VI tenor that got the full treatment, both cosmetically, and mechanically.  When dent repair is not part of a job where the body is refinished afterward, normally deep dents such as you see below in the body tube's "before" photos will leave some cracking and marking in the lacquer; this is true even when no burnishing (a sort of ironing process of flattening the brass where it is not flat) is necessary as the stress from a dent will cause both the lacquer and the metal to distort.  I prefer not to finish dentwork the way most old school techs have done in the past, with sanding and machine buffing with heavy rouge, because I prefer to be as uninvasive as possible, and to avoid taking brass of the saxophone.  The photos below show dent repairs that featured a small amount of burnishing (a metal on metal rubbing to "iron" irregularities in the brass), but no sanding or machine buffing such as once would have been part of the clean-up for work like this in years gone by.

Before                                                                      After

 

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