It's pretty nice looking for a player drum. Good job!

turned out beautiful! great save. very impressive..

mike

Yes sir, you did an outstanding job! And I would love to hear it.

@OddBall was right on about just switching the sides with the busted strainer/butt end of course and that made this whole process a lot easier. It does mean there's one section between lugs that pretty ugly as far as the patch goes, but I used the DAP mahogany and that stuff is killer. If someone wanted to do this prettier, you could definitely get crazy about it and scratch some markings in the dap patch and then stain the drum and hide it a fair bit more. I didn't bother. Structurally, this drum is totally sound and sonically I and VERY pleased. Thanks for the comments, pretty sure this little project will lead to more drum restorations for fun, it's a real labor of love and the results are fantastic.

Hey Oddball, thanks for this piece of advice! I hadn't thought of reversing, butt and strainer either. I'm working on a 50's WFL Pioneer with the exact same problem.

Very nice ! I would still like to see the repair though. You could also have filled it with that Elmer's gouge and hole filler. I did that once. Found the matching wood color of it and filled the gauge until it was full by using a putty knife. Then smoothed it out and sanded it when dry. Smooth as silk. I bet that drum sounds killer.

Your very welcome.

This site is great, and has great sources for advice.

Looks nice.

Lets see the repair. :D

I'm interested in seeing the repair also. I have a shell just like that one with the same, even worse, damage. I'd like to see what you did. Thanks.