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The finish that started it..

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Here are some pics of a Tempro kit I have. The kick is a Tempro pro I picked up off the 'bay. The toms are ones that came with another kit and were covered in white contact paper. The paper had knicks in it so I pulled a bit up one day and discovered this great finish. The wrap was all sticky from the glue being on there so long. I ended up re-wrapping these with some wrap from a company called Drum Designs. He did a great job matching the wrap I sent him. Unfortunately, the kick is a little more red than the tom covering was....

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Posted on 15 years ago
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[COLOR="DarkRed"]That's cool, good call on getting it custom-matched, too. Those Japanese swirls were awesome...cannot really get that done in a stock or semi-stock today.

Drummaker.com can do a custom-tinted swirl, but it's a swirl pattern produced by Delmar (US) and it doesn't have the depth, the greys, the blacks, of the original Japanese wraps.

So, even if not a perfect match, yours looks hecka good to me....

Just curious how much did that cost, to get a matched reproduction for the bass drum ?[/COLOR]

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Posted on 15 years ago
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I'd like to know more about Drum Designs. Specifically like what happened to 'em? Their site is gone.

Posted on 15 years ago
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From Jaye

[COLOR="DarkRed"]That's cool, good call on getting it custom-matched, too. Those Japanese swirls were awesome...cannot really get that done in a stock or semi-stock today.Drummaker.com can do a custom-tinted swirl, but it's a swirl pattern produced by Delmar (US) and it doesn't have the depth, the greys, the blacks, of the original Japanese wraps.So, even if not a perfect match, yours looks hecka good to me....Just curious how much did that cost, to get a matched reproduction for the bass drum ?[/COLOR]

It wasn't bad, especially since it was a custom job....

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Posted on 15 years ago
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From Rob G.

I'd like to know more about Drum Designs. Specifically like what happened to 'em? Their site is gone.

I believe the owner took some time to do some R&D.

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Hope he comes back soon. IIRC, he's in Indy, as am I. Really like to see if he could match some colors for me. :D

Posted on 15 years ago
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Those are cool! I Love some these old MIJ wraps that are starting to pop up here, now we are "empowering and inspiring" the owners of them to bring them out of the closets, and attics, to polish them up and show them to the world, free of embarrassment.

However, living here in the drab bread basket, where the 70s had to be so excruciatingly conservative, I haven't seen anything like what you guys find. Here we are seeing, when they do appear, sparkles....and maybe solids.

Don't get me wrong, this is not a political statement, and I am not "out in left field either. I grew up in the even more conservative deep southBurger Kin, where during the 60s and 70s flower almost everything was under "blue laws", closed on Sunday. But if, at 16, you were ballsy enough to walk up to the counter with a six-pack, most shop owners were selling.

Anywho, let's get more of these funky wraps out in the light of day!flowers2

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Posted on 15 years ago
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From Rob G.

Hope he comes back soon. IIRC, he's in Indy, as am I. Really like to see if he could match some colors for me. :D

Sorry Rob, Greg (Drum Design) is in Texas and his day job at Lockheed takes up a lot of his time...

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Would anyone be interested in these if I decide to sell? I have a set of Ludwig Standards in the same finish with Classic lugs, so they are certainly more rare...

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Ahh...I thought there was someone else doing something similar in Indy. Lockheed, eh? Surely that can't take that much of his time. ;)

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