[COLOR="DarkRed"]Hey all. I dunno if anyone else has used these yet...but Drummaker.com started selling these customized wraps in December.
I just got my first load in today. Pretty awesome stuff.
We are talking about a color span of something like 300 different colors...capable of being applied to marine pearl, swirl, or glitter wraps.
My first orders were for a Smoky sorta WMP...slightly champagne-y....and it's amazing...looks like a 40 y.o. aged WMP.
I also tried an olive-green pearl, and it's equally cool. I have never seen a tint like it. I have always had trouble with contemporary greens....they are too bright and lack depth for me. This is very rich, though.
I am awaiting a few sheets of Tiger's Eye Swirl. I used their swatch to match the tint of my '60's Whitehalls...it should be here in a few weeks.
Looks like the mfr'g process uses a white base pattern color (in the instance of pearl or ripple) and fuses a tinted finish clear layer over it.
Not very pricey, either, considering.
For me, this is awesome...I can finally get perfect color matches to those incomplete vintage kits w/ faded wraps (the ones missing a tom and such)...closer than having to settle for the standard-available colors and have slight mismatching.
Of course, likely with time they will fade differently, but nevertheless...a pretty cool concept.[/COLOR]