Indeed. Jeff is a genius with a spray gun.

Everything will depend on condition of wood under the wrap. If it splinters at all, then natural finish likely not doable. Already wrapped, so redoing with piano black will not hurt value.

So does Jeff shoot colors? I'm pretty sure the original finish is in bad shape. What I know about them is that Gregg Keplinger had them and didn't want to try to refurbish, so he sold them cheap to the guy I bought them from, who rewrapped them with the green.

George, isn't there a guy in Seattle that paints drums? Not Jerry, but a guy who advertises himself as a painter?

Tommy,

Sent an email with the contact information. Andrew at Bennett Drums had the info. Tell him Thanks You....

Guy would post on CL at times, but could not find anything current.

Tom, you can also shoot an email to Latindrum (Bob) about rewrapping OR refinishing. He has done a lot of work for the little guys as well as a big guy or two. He lives down in So. Cal and I've seenCar Driving2 ones he's rewrapping and own a drum he's made. IMHO he's a great drum builder/rewrapper and I know he's done some stain work too

Gary

If it's got the natural interiors, it'd be nice to have some lacquer finish as that was how it was designated. If a natural maple doesn't work because then a Moss Green wouldn't work for the same reason (though it'd be nice). Black lacquer always looks classy, particularly contrasting the white badges.

As a former owner of an original walnut finish Oaklawn kit, I say 'Paint It Black'!Cool1

It does have natural maple interiors. A friend had the same kit in walnut, and I think that black might win out.

Those darker Camco lacquer finishes are hard to imitate I think. The ebony is just plain weird and not a lot like ebony at all and even the walnut doesn't quite look like any walnut stain I've seen commercially available. Black's good - none more black.