Clarinet Thumbrest

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Many years ago, the thumbrest on my clarinet stripped off of my lower joint, so I proceeded to glue the piece back into place. This held up for about a year at a time over 6 years. Now that my little brother has the clarinet and I have a 3D printer, I decided it was time for a more permanent fix. Instructions The model was supposed to have a ring that attaches to the ring around the lower joint, but that broke off as I was removing the support structures. So, I drilled a hole just beyond the tangent of the inner radius. I cut the rest of the attachment ring so it left just two leads on either side of the lower joint. Using these leads for aligning, I fed zip-ties through the drilled hole and tightened the thumb rest onto the lower joint.