Holy Crap! That 8x14 Blaemire snare will be beastly.Cool1

Yeah....but not as beastly as that 10X18 would have been!

Man, that is going to make ears bleed!

Hey Jonn, Are you the guy who restores the Japaneses drums?

Very cool. I remember my first drumset ever was a Crest, Japanese plywood shells, wrapped in red pearl. I loved that color. Wish I still had that set. Have you come across any Crest sets? Mallet Player2

No Crest. I had a bead on a kit in Springfield, MO, or thereabouts, but they went way too high, and the seller was convinced they were something they were not. As for the shells themselves, most are just simple lauan of some Asian mahogany type of wood. Some work to them and they can be made to be quite good sounding drums, but just not worth more than a couple hundred bucks. It really makes no difference of the name, they were either made by Star or Pearl. Star would later become the venerable company we know today as TAMA.

Oh, yeah Jerry, "That" is what that shell at Pro Drum was for. The BIG Snare.

I did not see the potential. Snare wires that size might be hard to find. But Maybe not? Once I forgot to pack a snare for a gig in San Diego, far from home on a Sunday afternoon. When I got down to the gig early, thankfully. I freaked out. Then I thought of what I could do. I went to the one hardware store open in the area. Bought some bailing wire and duct tape. Flipped a 14" tom upside down. Cut strands of wire and taped them to the bottom head as tight as I could. I placed the tom on a drum case and did the gig. No one noticed the "Deep Dish" snare until a sax player wandered back to check in. He looked and said "What the F+++ is that. He did not tell and no one said a thing.

So I got the blue wrap off of the snare shell fairly easily, no heat gun, a few cuts with the razor knife where the lugs go. Lots of shiny backing, wood filler, spot putty and some adhesive left to remove.

This time I am going to show all of the holes, flaws, imperfections in all the photos. No hiding the patches this time. I better do a real good job. Eye Ball

What the heck were those two bigger holes side by side? That looks like quite the project, good luck.

Back in the "electronic days" , I never figured these Blaemires were gonna be something special. I lost my scope. It could happen to a good guy in the 80's.

I had a set of Simmons Drums, a Linn Drum, Trigger pads for the Linn and special triggers for Simmons on some of my acoustic drums. I drilled these holes sadly, for internal microphone cable attachments and for internal trigger cable connections. It was "A BAD DECISION".Violin However, with Jerry's help, I am currently developing some new epoxy resin patching compounds. Some hybrids, if you will. I will patch these holes and try to make them dissapeer.

Almost impossible really. But the large hole I patched in my 24" BD at the old Tom Tom mount is nice and tight and strong. Bonded with the shell.

Thanks SA

Hey Scott...

Looks like you are having fun...and doing a great job. You might consider putting a piece of scrap shell in the larger holes. I have done this on some shells, which had a better result. I have some shell scraps if you need them.