Beautiful kit!!I don't see that as being blasphemous (or however you spell it). You will still have the original hoops and you can always keep an eye out for some original replacements.I wouldn't practice on the 15" tom myself...especially if its also restorable. I would recommend just getting a couple of old shells that are already trashed and practice on them if you absolutely must do it yourself. Maybe better to get a pro to do it.Anyone have thoughts here as to how a recut will affect value? Is it always a negative? This case?
Thank?s Dad, good to know that you?re right behind me.
Sorry for my spelling, I usually speak and write in Danish -- also quite a complicated language.
Don?t worry, i?m not gonna do any harm to the drums, infact I already made the edges on the 15" with expectable succes -- now it?s tuneable, and lost only 0,8mm. between the highest point on the top, and the highest point on the bottom.
I?m not in any way tempted of leaving the job to any "pro" who would claim more than I payed fore the entire kit, and would take away the pleasure that it gives me, to get to the bone of the instruments that I love to play.
Please remember that we?re not talking Rocket science, actually it seems to me, that we?re not talking scince at all, but quite simple craftmenship --- that could have been done better from the beginning.
I will come up with details and pictures later, but I can already tell that without a 120 year old shipbuilding tool it wouldn?t be possible to do it the way I did.
PS. How could a welldone recut ever be negative???
Best regards
Carsten M