Greetings.
First, I just joined Vintage Drum forum. This is my first post. Looks like a great site!
I recently purchased a 1971 Ludwig Supraphonic 400 snare drum. As I understand, the drum was badly pitted so the former owner decided to 'fix' it up by putting a couple coats of primer on the shell then painting it with a chrome paint.
I have a couple of questions:
1) How will the sound of the snare be affected by what the former owner did to the drum (adding primer and paint)? Since this is my first Supra 400, I don't know how much the sound is affected.
2) I think I would prefer a pitted supra 400 to a painted/primed supra 400. How hard would it be to remove the paint and primer and get back to the original pitted snare?
Thanks in advance!!
John F