Do you really need to ask?? I was hoping you'd post pics along the way. ;)

Sometimes I feel like Im starting too many threads.

Never too many!! flowers2

Yes, absolutely post pics along the way.

Indeed. I like to live vicariously through your formidable carpentry and finishing skills.

Are you done yet?Excited

Okay here we go. I really like to post these pictures and narrate what’s going on. I always wanted to write a how to book.

Picture one is the drums in my shop after I brought them home. I bought them from a young man that answered my “drums wanted” add on Craig’s list. I wasn’t too excited about them at the time and only offered $100.00 for them. I even encouraged him to wait and sell them to someone else for more money. But he wanted money now so he made the deal for the 100 bucks. I felt I should have paid him more for the drums and its been bugging me so I am sending him a surprise gift.

Picture two is a close up of the floor tom. You can see there is a problem with the wrap.

Picture three is the results of a failed attempt to paint the drums. Rogers blue mist is a super nice color. The color will change from light to dark blue depending on what angle you are looking at it. I had my color studio make two colors using two different products. The light blue started out as a white opaque base so it’s a solid color. Then I had them make the darker blue using a clear as the base. I sprayed the test drum with the solid light blue first then the transparent dark blue. I thought it might have an effect close enough to match the old wrap. I was wrong. After a failing attempt to find some of the original wrap I decided to go with KOA veneer, it was offered by Rogers as a cortex wrap on the xp8’s.

Jeff C

Now that I have decided on the koa wrap it is time to get to work. I had actually started on this a couple months ago.

I like to place all the parts in different bags to keep them organized. Removing wrap with a heat gun is not so bad but getting the glue off is another story. I used xylene for the first time. It works well but boy it really smells so get a charcoal filtered respirator if you’re going to use it.

I was able to save all of the badges and grommets. The big R badge is ugly in my opinion. I was going to leave them off but my wife has convinced me to put them back on.

At the end of this day I have the wrap and glue removed from all of the shells, yay! Now with any luck the koa veneer will arrive tomorrow. I still want to clean up the insides of some of the shells and spray some new finish on them. And I noticed the floor tom shell has a small amount of delaminating going on so I will need to glue and clamp those areas. I really hope to wrap the drums next weekend but my cabinet job comes first.

Jeff C

Now that is entertainment! Great fun watching this project.

Not entirely wanting to hijack this thread, but I am still really interested in finding out what company produced these wraps. I always thought they were pretty classy. They do not seem to exist anymore however.

Looking forward to te next installment Jeff!