I am skeptical about this technique being successful on restoring the older European pearls that now have discolored and cracked, because the composition of the materials is different than that shown on the Slingerland examples, and the problem isn't necessarily one of "yellowing". The European finishes appear as if they have actually "aged" and in the worst cases seem to have begun to deteriorate. However I would like to be pleasantly surprised!

I am wondering the same thing here. Need to find some faded wrap and test it out.

And I have another question, I have a very yellowed Ludwig snare that I got for Christmas from my daughter. I dont care for the yellowing, it reminds me of cigarett smoke damage. Would it be wrong to remove the yellowing??

JC

Recent thread on DFO shows some wetsanding to the wraps 600-1500 then polish. There's a gent there who showed a heat damaged LBP Luddy floor tom. Looks like it sat next to a heater of some kind and had a brownish red stain/burn on the wrap. It was just about gone in his finished pics. I know the wrap composition is 3 ply and VERY thin so easy does it I'd imagine.

Glenn, I actually tried to wet sand a small portion of this drum and came up with the conclusion that the yellowing was to deep to be sanded off. Of course this was done very gingerly and like I said very small area because I was worried about screwing up the drum wrap.

Retr0bright is a mixture of hydrogen pyroxide (spelling?) and oxyclean. I would love to restore my drum to the origional WMP but would like to experiment first on some old yellowed wrap. If anyone has any I would buy it from you. It must be Ludwig WMP 1962ish.