6.5"x14" 3-ply Mahogany Super-Sensitive

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Your veneer looks very much like a combination of a quilted and a birdseye maple.

Posted on 11 years ago

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Your veneer looks very much like a combination of a quilted and a birdseye maple.

I'll have to do a little research and see if I can't find out what it is. The 'bird's eye' in Bird's Eye maple is usually smaller, these are large. It is a quilted grain though. I bought the piece in ebay about 5 years ago and I'll be damned if I can remember what the wood is called. I'll try to find out.

John

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Eureka... I found it! It's Eucalyptus!

Jeff - I have a piece left over that is 7" wide by about 24" long. Enough to do a 3.5" piccolo shell! It's yours if you want it. I'll be happy to send it up to you if you have a use for it. It's beautiful stuff. A bit brittle, but a good hot water presoak allowed me to clamp it to a blank shell in order to pre-shape it. I don't have any vacuum equipment to help the bonding process, so I pre-shape the piece for a guaranteed close fit. Let me know if you want the scrap piece. Useable, but only on a narrower shell and if you don't mind piecing it together, it'll produce two seams. Hide em under lugs.

John

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Posted on 11 years ago

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jccabinets

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John, thanks for the offer but I dont have a shell to put it on. You better hang on to it. If I come across something that I can use it on I will contact you. I have some Asian shells and some orphan MIJ drums that I might wrap in veneer. I can buy a 4x8 sheet of birch for like 30 bucks, its the hardware that gets expensive.

I also have those Rogers XP8's with cracked wraps, they are maple shells and might be a good canidate for a clear finish or dye and clear. For now I am considering on having my color studio match the cracked blue wrap and just taking them back to the origional color only with lacquer instead of plastic wrap.

Sorry, I got carried away and rambled on there, Il stop. Eucalyptus huh!

Jeff C

Thank you!
Jeff C

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J!m

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J!m - Thanks for the detailed advice and for taking the time to compose that long post. If you go back and re-read my response to Jeff, I said I -wasn't- going to use 'stain' at all. I do appreciate the tutorial on applying stain however. Sometimes it's like the old axiom says... "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions!" lol It's the thought that counts and I do appreciate the effort you put into it.John

No worries John!

It took so long the other posts came in before I finished. When I started, there was only your original post!DOH

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Moving along nicely. The veneer is on and I'm on my third coat of Tung Oil! I need some hoops for this thing. Does anybody have a set of 14" 10 hole hoops with extended/deep snare gates? (Like this one, see photo.) PM me if you do. I'm willing to buy, or trade for them.

[IMG]http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n632/PurdieShuffle/gate.jpg[/IMG]

John

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ElMoonlightDrummer

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I don't have any hoops for you, but I can't wait to see the finished product on this one! I remember you mentioning in another post that Bill was cutting down a shell for you for a special project...glad to see it coming to life! Awesome work like always, John. Salud!

Aaron

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> John. Salud!

Igualmente mi hermano!

Keep your eyes open for me. If you spot one of these drop-gate hoops with 10 holes, give me a heads up/PM. Gracias...

John

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Progress report:

I have the lugs on and one side of the ss mechanism installed. Tricky lay-out. Because of the top cross bar, along with properly positioning the unit on the shell, measurements need to be exact. Once the lay-out was done, the rest was a cakewalk. Drill the holes and mount the unit. There are 6 buffed out coats of Tung Oil on the shell. I think it came out great, but that's not for me to say.

MikeL's gift hoop arrived and it looks killer on the drum! Mike sent me a 60's COS batter hoop from a Ludwig snare that is in beautiful condition. Really makes the drum sparkle. Thanks, Mike!

Waiting to hear from a member who says he has a snare-side hoop for me, but I haven't heard back from him yet. As soon as I have the missing hoop in my hands, the drum gets tuned-up and played! Can't wait to hear this one.

Note: I had an Everplay head laying around so I used it for the photo. I'll be using a coated Aquarian Vintage head on the batter and an Evans Hazy 300 snare-side when it's all done. The blue along the bottom of the drum is painters paper masking-tape. I use it to scribe the lay-outs for all the parts on the drum. Doesn't leave adhesive residue. Good stuff.

[IMG]http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n632/PurdieShuffle/wss1-1.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n632/PurdieShuffle/wss2-1.jpg[/IMG]

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More shortly...

John

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longjohn