I think if you contact a wood worker, or a furniture builder, l;ocally, you will get a better understanding from someone that speaks your language to better explain it in words you can understand. There seems to be something missing in the translation.

Your kit looks as though it needs professional help.

Hey, let us wrote in Swedish instead ?!? LoLoLoLo

I will do it (furnitere builder), if I only find one. There is not lot of them anymore.

I just wonder if someone hade some drums in similar condition, and what they do.

Option is to let it be as it is. But I WOULD LIKE to get it look better.

Start googling furniture refinishing, wood staining, and stuff like that. Don't narrow your focus to just drums. It is just a piece of wood. Take a bunch of it in, then practice on an old junk piece of furniture or something else wood. Once you are confident, go for it!! Heck, what is the worst that can happen, you make a crappy looking drum look less crappy? I have said this before but I sided my garage after reading about it on the internet. Never done it before, but my old man was still kickin' and he did kind of supervise....LOL. If you are reasonably handy you should want to do this yourself. I am a hick who has tools and a garage and stuff so if you are a city slicker living in an apartment or something then maybe this isn't feasible for you. I don't know your situation.

The missing finger was a joke too. My old wood shop teacher could turn a 2x4 into a rocking chair, but he was missing a finger.......

toodles

drumhack

Another question:

I do not have original basdrummound and tommount: s .

I tired to buye but it seems be difficult to find it, and even expensive Eye Ball

When I soon going ( maybe ) to refresh basdrum should I at the same time plugg the old holes And put toms on the rims? ( I like toms sound with rims - and rims do not destory set, you can allways take them away) )

Or better let the old hole stay there? ( Who know may-be I in the future will find original tomholders, not SO expensive?)

This is my prefernces, so you may-be understaind what I wish to do MOST with the drums....

1-I DO like when set is original. Good sounding. Good looking.

And if I had destroyed set , that it´s possible to make to nr. 1 with original patrs, it´s ok for me ( but it can NOT cost a fortune) .

2-If it´s not possible to make set to nr 1, then I preferar it, and sound good, without everything orginal.

3- If I can not make it to nr 1 or 2, then I of course prefear bad looking set, but to sounds good.

4- If I can not make it to 1,2 or 3, ( good sounding) ,then I do not wan it att all. Does not matter everything is original. I do not want ONLY to look at them, I wond MOSTLY to play on them.

So , is i bad idea to plug holes? , I mean, I will ( maybe ) relacquer my basdrum, I am missing original tomholders, maybe it would be smart to do it ( plugg holes ) at the same time?

Or is most stupid idea of the week?

I wouldn't fill the holes.

What I'd do is find some stain as close as you get and apply that to the bare wood places. Watco stain is probably the most famous and there's a good chance that that's what the drums were originally done with. Some careful sanding might help.

Then I'd use a clear coat on top of that. I would use whatever clear coat I could find, most likely from an auto parts place. You could try and just clear coat the spots you re-stained, or more likely spray the whole drum so it reflects the light uniformally.

Those are killer drums.

However, I decited to not lacquer it by my self. If I do something with them, then I will leave it som proffessional/semi professional painter- wood, furniture, car painter, does not matter.

They have right equipment to make it look good, I do not think I get it nice by my self.

Then, perhaps, better not to do anything.

Otherwise I may-be just make more damages on them. If it was more ordinary set, then I would test, if it does not work I could re-wrap them.

But I realy like that walnut finnish, and toms are looking ok, så it would be piety do recover them, just becouse I wanted to do it by my self, when I know that I can not do it so well...Hmmmm

Primary question is, if I should leave it as is.

Give me Your opinion folks, re-lacquer, or not?

I vote for leave 'em be, except for the bass hoop. Have a pro fix that, to see how he does.

You might like them just fine then, but if not, you have an example of the pro's handiwork to see if you would have him do the rest of the job.

No guts, no glory......hehehehehe

So most of you think it´s best not to do anything with basdrum?

I'd probably get some stain and touch up the bare wood places. Sometimes it doesn't need to be perfect to look acceptable. Check to see if Watco has a color that matches. I'll bet that's what they originally used... I've seen Watco in that color.

I would not cover the drums in pearl wrap. To me it has a bad effect on the sound - try covering a violin in plastic.

So as a minimum, I'd try some stain on the bare wood and when it dries buff the whole drum with some Pledge furniture polish. That's low risk.

There's been a trend in antique cars: years ago everybody would strip and repaint everything, nowadays collectors would rather have it in original shape with a few minor flaws like your drums.