Easily, the most common repair we do on instruments is solder work. Saxophone posts, saxophone neck key cradles, flute head joint lip plate, Trumpet braces, spit valve ports and keys, You name it we solder instruments back together. In order to solder cleanly and with only rarely burning the lacquer finish it takes numerous types of torches as well as 4 different types of gas. We solder with Acetylene, Oxygen, Propane, and Butane. Earlier today we refilled our Acetylene and Oxygen tanks and the price about gave us a heart attack. We see shops regularly burning lacquer, having excess solder way past the joint and often this is because they used too large of a torch and one of lower quality. In order to get a clean solder with virtually no damage to the finish we need to use a pinpoint flame and a very very careful eye on the area being soldered. This is often only possible when we use Acetylene and Oxygen together which is the costliest gas we use. 

Because of the current price of all the gases and oxygen that we use, effective immediately we will have a minimum $40 labor fee plus shop costs (gas, flux, solder, solvents etc). 

The basic 1 or 2 joint resolders will average around $65 while multiple solder joints will exceed $100. We always hate when the market forces us to adjust our prices. However, we do not want to lower the quality of our solder work.