I recently picked up another 60's Slingerland set. When I saw the pics on CL I thought "a gold sparkle." When I got to the place to pick them up I realized these had been a silver sparkle! I noticed here on the VDF in the "Cleaning and Restoring" section it says this about yellowed WMP. "there is a technique used by experienced drum restorers that will take off some of the yellow and get them close to the original and looking much better then it originally did" Anyone know this technique? Any more thoughts on what to use on these? I wasn't sure pics were necessary for this.
Silver Sparkle Turned Gold
I don't believe the method for restoring wmp will work with a sparkle because if you wet sand too deep,you will remove the top layer and hit the actual sparkle pieces.
You might have a gold set.Pull a lug and you may see the original gold.Sometimes gold sparkle fades to a silver.They call it ginger ale-ing. If this is the case,I don't know how you could get the gold back.
I don't believe the method for restoring wmp will work with a sparkle because if you wet sand too deep,you will remove the top layer and hit the actual sparkle pieces.You might have a gold set.Pull a lug and you may see the original gold.Sometimes gold sparkle fades to a silver.They call it ginger ale-ing. If this is the case,I don't know how you could get the gold back.
No it is for sure Silver sparkle. I have all the hardware off already. The Floor tom is not as gold as the rest is the funny thing. You can see a lot more silver on the floor tom. Plus someone painted the insides of these black so my second question is. Is it worth stripping all the black paint from the insides? Does that black paint affect the sound?
the ginger ale effect is called character, leave them alone, this happened alot to silver sparkle the wrap is cellulose based and that's how they aged, only way it to re wrap which you don't won't to do, if your reselling them,I'd just leave them alone and let the new owner decide what they want to do with the interior paint. if your keeping them and it bothers you go ahead and restore them, and no It doesn't affect the tone.
the ginger ale effect is called charter, leave them alone, this happened alot to silver sparkle the wrap is cellulose based and that's how they aged, only way it to re wrap which you don't won't to do, if your reselling them,I'd just leave them alone and let the new owner decide what they want to do with the interior paint. if your keeping them and it bothers you go ahead and restore them, and no It doesn't affect the tone.
As usual thank you sir! I think I will put them back together after polishing the hardware and play the heck out of them first and then sell them!
Do these 60's Slingerlands sound good? This is the 22" 16" 13" 12". I may try some coated heads on these. I always wanted to see how those heads sounded. Any recommendations for coated heads?
As usual thank you sir! I think I will put them back together after polishing the hardware and play the heck out of them first and then sell them!Do these 60's Slingerlands sound good? This is the 22" 16" 13" 12". I may try some coated heads on these. I always wanted to see how those heads sounded. Any recommendations for coated heads?
Yes they are awesome sounding drums
Go with Remo ambassadors or Emperors, ambassadors are single ply, emperors are two ply.I love em both.
I've never heard of silver sparkle fading to gold. I have a gold sparkle drum that faded to silver, and a red sparkle drum that faded to gold...
1965 Ludwig Hollywood
1970 Ludwig Jazzette
I like Evans G1 coated on my Slingerlands, its all a matter of taste. Slingerlands have a lovely warm, round tone to them. Play them for a while, you will probably end up keeping them!
If I put on coated tops what should I use for bottom res heads?
1965 Ludwig Hollywood
1970 Ludwig Jazzette
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