Wow, I would have thought someone out there would have a quick answer to this. Oh well.

I had a set of black Yamaha Rock Tour Custom drums that had a lot of swirls and some gouges / scratches.

I used Turtle Wax Swirl and Scratch Remover. I followed that up with some Meguires car wax.

The Swirl remover helped and waxing helped quite a bit as it had a lot of swirls, etc. It didn't look new, but certainly made the black look wetter and deeper.

You really need to remove the hardware to do the job right.

I normally use Trick Drum Polish for general cleaning/ polishing of kits.

Stewart/McDonald is a guitar builder supplier. They sell all the fillers, lacquers, buffing and polishing compounds that guitar luthiers use to fix damage to lacquer guitar finishes. Same products and procedure for fixing dings in a drum shell finish or on the top of a guitar. Plenty of guitar finish repair tutorials available on the web. Check out Stewart/McDonald for any supplies you'll need. Best of luck with your project.

John

Thanks for all the replies. I think I know what type of products to look for now. I have always kept them clean but after all these years they need a deep polishing and waxing. Now I just need to make sure I have the time to take them all apart and get them back together before my next gig. Unfortunate I'm down to one kit at the moment.

Thanks again,Carl