I can't speak to FiberSkyns because I've never tried removing the logos from them. My son has them on the toms of his bop kit but i won't experiment on them without his permission. I can attest to the fact that I used Goo Gone to remove the logo from a Remo coated Ambassador bass drum head with very little effort and it didn't affect the coating. It took under 5 minutes including a couple of applications of the Goo Gone to get all the smeared residue off. Since the Goo Gone dissolves the logo its only a matter of wiping it off. I'm surprised you had such a problem. I wish I could test it myself to see how it differed from what I did.

I think I had Goof off rather than goo gone. I just bought a big can of goo gone to remove the glue residue from a floor tom shell so I will be sure to try that the next time I'm removing a logo.

Goof Off should have worked as well, but as I said earlier I never tried it on a Fiberskyn head,

Edit: Just found this old link here from 2010. In it Vintagemore2000 indicates he removed logos from FiberSkyn heads with Goof Off. Maybe the heads are manufactured differently now or the ink formulation is different. A second person JeffersonT indicated it didn't work and Vintagemore2 said there were more than one version of these heads. So perhaps Goof Off won't work after all.

http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=12928

Frankly, I never really cared for the look of FiberSkyns. I played calfskin back in the day and the color of Fiberskyn heads is way off, much too pale, The darker areas on the FiberSkyns would have been indicative of thin spots on calf heads, and no one would knowingly purchase a calf head that had so many of them. In addition calf heads were smoother not lumpy like FiberSkyns. The Evans Calftones are much closer in look and color to real calfskin and have a similar texture, IMHO.

I do somewhat prefer the look of the Evans myself but that logo was pretty stubborn and fairly large. Maybe goo gone would have worked on it. I might give it a try on another one at some point.

Well, that video pretty much shows that the Goof Off is going to work. Thanks for all the replies!

Dan!

Yeah .. except .. he used it on a SMOOTH head, not a coated! I still think you're going to lose some of the coating on a coated head with almost anything you try. Not worth the "risk" and expense to find out on a new head .. but .. got a used coated laying around? Even a snare head, doesn't matter! Try it first before committing to your bass drum head. Again though, for me ... I just use the smooth reso's, and the logo's come right off, with no shadowing, etc.

Tommyp

Exactly what Tommyp says! It's just far too difficult to remove logos from coated heads. For my 1966 Rogers Headliner, I purchased a new Smooth White Ambassador head. Very easy to remove the Remo logo!

-Mark

On coated heads solvents are just going smear the ink into the coating. Better off to lightly sandpaper the logo off and feather edges. A few light layers of white primer. Stamp or put the new image over this area and good to go. Will only show if back lighted. Doubt sound has changed any.

It's just the bass reso so the cheap non stamped coated is the way to go if wanting a coated head and a different image.

Here is a head where the ink smeared back lighted. Painted and rubber stamp logo.

Creighton

In my experience I have to disagree. As I said earlier, while I have never tried to remove a logo from FiberSkyn heads, I did remove the logo from a new coated Ambassador BD head completely in just a few minutes with Goo Gone. It could not have been much easier and there was absolutely no smeared residue.

I no longer attempt to remove logos from coated heads. As KO mentions, the logos can just be oversprayed with flat white. We've had a few threads here discussing spray painting reso heads. The result is not much different than a factory-original coated head. As TommyP mentions, there's not much acoustical difference between a coated head and a smooth head, so spray painting the reso head does not really affect its tone. Plus, spray painting an old, dull head makes it look new again.

Here's a couple examples of spray painted reso heads. Note that there is no trace of the original Remo logos.

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Mike