If you change the bearing edge the drums won't sound the same. If you like them don't mess with them.

Plus ,it's not real wood and may not cut the way you expect.

Actually i have good experience cutting Acousticon shell, as I did cut my old 14" floortom, and made a snare form it. If using a new/sharp router bit, it's like cutting MDF/HDF boards.

Then reason for wanting to cut new edges, is to change sound to something warmer and with more tone. As Acousticon shell's are heavy and almost without own resonance, I want to make the skins resonate as much as possible.

Sawdust and glue as I once heard them referred to as.

Good luck,I have a Fibes fiberglass shell that needed recut and nobody would touch it.

Anything other than real wood gets you a blank stare.

I still wouldn't cut them. I think you'd be better off buying a set that gets that sound. They are unique and original. You won't get that back.

What heads are on them now?

They were shipped with pinstripe batters and diplomat resos.

Interesting shell make up:........ paper and resin and heat on a mandrel.

They had old coated AMB on top, and some factory Premier clear as resos. That was actually the reason, why I took them apart, as I wanted to change the heads.

And then It kind of escalleted from there :rolleyes:

My first choice would be to use coated emp. as batter, and coated (maybe clear) amb. as resos.

Somebody told me to try Dipomat as batter, to get max. tone!

I even considdered to go with the heads that Loui Bellson used on his Mastertouch set:

Renaissance amb as batter, and clear amb. as reso.

I'm not sure if I should make new bearing edges or not Mind Blowi

Do you know if Mastertouch snares had the same bearing edges as the tom's?

BR

Michael