Thought I'd share some pics of my latest resto project. Its a bit of a mismatch of Slingerland eras but, it is all Slingerland. The bass drum is an HSS era 15"x18" Artist Custom series. It was originally gloss lacquer natural maple, but was wrapped in a blue agate finish and fitted with Ludwig lugs and badge as per the customer's request. I had done this work a few years ago for a friend, who has since passed away from cancer, and I ended up buying the it from his estate. Since the time of purchasing the kit, I've parted out and sold off the real Ludwig toms that came with the "kit" and sold off the Ludwig badge and hardware that was fitted to the bass drum.
I then stripped off the blue agate wrap and cleaned up the original finish underneath as best I could, which actually was in pretty good shape still, and filled the extra holes that were dtilled to fit the Ludwig lugs. I ordered repro Slingerland lugs and a repro badge for it, as those went missing somewhere along the way, as well as a Gibraltar double tom mount, as again the orignal Artist Custom mount went missing somewhere along the way as well. I think that has come out rather well.
I then found a mid 70's chrome-o-wood 8x12 in tough shape on ebay and stripped the chrome off, and then applied a natural unfinished maple veneer to it. Sanded it smoooth, then applies 4 coats of clear gloss lacquer to it. The missing hardware from that drum has been located and/or is on the way, so final pics of that are due up later in the week.
I then located a mid-60's 14x14 floor tom on ebay, paid a bit more than I wanted for it, but it was complete. It was already a re-wrap (and a poor job of one at that) and the wrap was already splitting and cracking. Upon removing the wrap on that one I found someone had used part contact adhesive, part hot-melt glue gun glue to adhere the wrap! After removing and sanding that mess down, I had some filling to do to the outer ply, and then applied the same natural unfinished maple veneer to that shell. The gloss lacquer is to be applied today.....again, hopefully finished pics later in the week.
