So when I was 16, I decided the consolette, tom bracket, spurs and clipper legs on my clubdate were not up to the thrashing I was giving them on a daily basis. So I went digging through my local drum shops junk drawers and pieced together a MODULAR bass mount/tom holder, some classic floortom brackets and Gibraltar spurs. While the set was absolutely playable, I had done irreversible damage to the shells.
I did however save the 1" circular pieces of shell I cut out with a hole saw.
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I am now intending to plug and rewrap these drums(12,14,20) and an orphan '65 9x13.
I have removed the wrap from the 8x12 and 14x20 and attempted to reuse the 1" holes that I've saved all these years, but I don't know if wood filler is going to do the trick, I believe the preferred method is plugging with dowels. Here is some shots of my attempt at plugging using filler.
The 14x14 has elongated holes where I put classic ft brackets on, but the wrap is tight and in fairly good shape, but I'm sure it's not going to look very yellowed next to a newly wrapped bass drum.
The 9x13 I picked up on eBay was painted black inside and looks like someone used a heavy cleanser on the wrap to remove paint or contact paper, because its all hazy
So a couple of questions, is it that big of a deal to rewrap the 14x14 and 9x13 if the rest of the kit is already "ruined"? Also do you guys think the original plugs and filler will hold once wrapped and painted? Or am I just making problems for this set down the line?
