Yep; too late now for my joke about scrapping the project cuz they weren't "looking too good yet"...

Well, this concludes the veneer job. The shells look pretty good, I think the owner will be happy. So its off to the post office on Monday. I took these pics outside so Mitch would be happy,lol!

Very nice job Jeff... Congratulations once again..

( still reckon the King is involved with this )

Cheers

John

Mitch is very happy with the daylight pics and the shells look freakin gorgeous!

Mitch [happy]

I think the owner is at a loss for words...Burger Kin

Thank you!

And thanks to everyone else for the kind words!

Jeff is that a butt seam on the floor tom? Man the grain matched up really well on that end too. Pretty cool.

No Glenn, it was overlapped one inch. I have done butt seems in the past and they are kind of risky. For myself Im not too picky but when its for someone else I try to go with what I know will turn out good. I feel kinda cheep by doing an overlap but then again most drums have that seem so maybe its no big deal.

A perfect butt seam on a cylinder seems almost impossible to achieve. Geez, if you cut it even the tiniest bit too short the whole piece is wasted! The dry run won't have the extra added width of glue layer, so how can you ever know? Do you start over-sized and then cut it back?......perfectly?

Yikes! :)

Mitch

I think a butt would or should I say could shrink! Safe bet with an overlap.