How did you fill and sand it so when you painted it the course vertical grain would not be seen under that paint? My experience has shown that drums with this wood tend to be difficult to achieve a smooth painted surface. I have not tried this, but have seen it done and none of those look as good as yours here.
John
How did you fill and sand it so when you painted it the course vertical grain would not be seen under that paint? My experience has shown that drums with this wood tend to be difficult to achieve a smooth painted surface. I have not tried this, but have seen it done and none of those look as good as yours here. John
John, I went over the shell with my Famwood woodfiller, let it dry then sanded. Actuallly did this a few times to make sure the grain was filled in. Then just mixed the lime green pearl (it comes in a powder) into the level sealer. Spray one coat then sand with 320 sanding sponge. After wiping off the sanding dust you will see bright spots where the sanding sponge didnt get. SO you spray another coat and repeat. When you finally can wipe off the sanding dust and see 100% dull finish with no shinny spots then you are done. Spray a clear gloos coat for the final coat and bazinga, shinney drum. With the luan wood it took 8 coats to achieve this, even with the wood filler prep.
The pearl powders from www.paintwithpearl.com will eventually cover what ever is under it. The cool thing is if you had a nice smooth wood like maple you could stop spraying coats at apoint where you can still see the grain underneath. I would never do this over raw luan again, it took too many coats but since this was a cheep drum set to experiment with its okay. Look at this picture below, this tom is mahogany venner I wraped over a kit then sprayed a few coats of the level sealer, clear with no coloring. Then finished it off with the gloss coat. The level sealer is a great product.
JC
JC beautiful paint work on those~! You do excellent work my friend. I like the color too. Your Daughter did very well with the color choice. They look great!
Thanks for the tutorial. Also, thanks for advising against its use with Luan, preventing me from an extensive and expensive venture!
John
Two Words:
Shamrock Shake!
Two more words:
Awsome Kit, bro!
Shamrock Shake!
Now thats a first, lol.
Its not a bad kit, but the tom mount needs more adjustment. You can only angle the toms front to back, they are not sitting in a level plain right to left. I want to bend the peice that the tom mount slips over to level them out but afraid I will break it. So, still thinking on how to improve it.
Thanks for the nice comment.
JC
Hoshino Kougyou - the "third" japanese manufacturer in the sixties/seventies.
See here:
http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=30084
http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=27856
and other threads.
Sold under many names, Aria, Santana.....
I am not SURE yours is one, but the lugs looks that way. I never saw Hoshinos with the thin shells, though.
Jon
Hoshino Kougyou - the "third" japanese manufacturer in the sixties/seventies.See here:http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=30084http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=27856and other threads.Sold under many names, Aria, Santana.....I am not SURE yours is one, but the lugs looks that way. I never saw Hoshinos with the thin shells, though.Jon
Thanks Jon, mine had no badges but it has made in Japan stamped on the hardware here and there. Never knew there was so much to learne about drums. Thanks again!
JC
Excellent job!
