Adam, the shells are looking great. I'm doing the same thing to some Ludwig shells right now also. I think mine will be yet another veneer job. I am enjoying this thread, keep the progress updates coming please.

Not a bad price for a gallon. Thanks for the suggestion!

-Adam

Did some low spot fillin tonight. A few of the edge spots are going to take multiple passes building up, but I think everything is workable and should be able to just be flattened on a table and sanding sponged in terms of edges. We'll see how it goes though once I get a little further along.

The water damage area at the bottom of the bass drum has a spot where a ply was torn up about 5 inches long and 1/4 inch wide. Should I fill that in and then do the hardener, or do the hardener and then fiill? I assume hardener first to get it down into the bad spots as much as possible before filling over the top and sanding. Is this right?

-Adam

Minor update.

Hoops are all wood glued/clamped back into place, wood hardener is in on the bass, and round one of filling is complete. Looking pretty good so far. I sanded after the first filling and now there are a couple of spots that need some fattening up in order to sand completely smooth for painting. Nothing major. Should be ready to prime this weekend or Monday. I got the stain hiding white for 2 coats...then Ill do the flat grey.

The edges are looking sweet too. Im thinking a light flattening/squaring up and sanding sponge should be all they need to sit flat and as close to original as possible.

Also looked into paint costs some more---and decided that I am going to go with the turquoise glass glitter wrap in order to eliminate the possibility for disaster. As I said, once I sell some of the extras that came with the kit (paiste 302 cymbals, percussion plus stands, zildjian bottom hat, Royce snare) Ill be at a zero investment other than materials...which I can use on other projects as well, so I feel like the cost of wrap is totally worth it on this one. I hope it turns out as sweet as Im picturing it!

I think I need to order 9 badge nails from JP Creations...which will be $9 plus shipping...so thats the only other cost. Oh, and a hoop for the bass.

-Adam

Spent about an hour at Home Depot mixing up a custom batch of Rogers "flat grey" today. Took an old Cleveland marching shell I had laying around and mixed it as close as we could get it taking into account dirt/darkening over the years. I think it's really gonna be nice--/and not identical, which I think is good.

Also---done with filling. Prime time, y'all!

Heres an edge shot

Adam, If you're going to use glass wrap, add in some $ to let the guys at Precision Drum (if that is where you're buying the wrap,) do the job for you. You need special tools to cut glass wrap. Trimming is near impossible without the proper cutting tools. It's also a very thick and brittle wrap, you'll have to cut it back from the bearing edges, or you 'may have trouble' getting heads on. If they make the same wrap you want in a sparkle, then it's a job you can do yourself. Glass wrap? Let the pro's do it.

John

Thanks for the heads up Purdie, but Im all good with the wrapping. I have not actually done a glass glitter before, but I have plenty of friends that are "pros" and they have worked with it a ton. I plan on getting advice where I need it, and I also plan on doing more and more of this in the future....so Im not worried about it. If I screw up and need to spend a few more bucks...thats fine. I just didnt want to have to re-strip the drums if I screwed up the paint!

Im doing the pre-cut sizes from Precision...just a hair shorter than the depth of the drums...and I have wrapped kits before so I am choosing this method from experience. Heads spin with tons of room on all the drums, so Im not worried about that either.

Stay tuned!

-Adam

Looking good, can't wait to see the wrap!

Hey Purdie, I was wondering why I had so much trouble with the glass wrap. I tried to do an already stripped-off Dynasonic marching drum in two-tone black and red glass glitter. Ugh!

Sold the drum as a stripped unit after peeling off the failed attempt and having to clean the adhesive. crying2-07