Are you going to stain it oarnge? Looks cool!

I would think any Birch is loaded with oil, even after KD. I`ve seen Rosewood bubble after a year on guitars. Sonor has a special lacquer for Rosewood. Birch will prolly need to be treated first or the lacquer formulated. Wise to look into it before spray`n.

water based stain, alcohol based dye and shellac for color.

Cool, hope you walk us through the process, it would be interesting to me to see how other's go about the finishing steps. Your going to end up with some mighty cool drums when your done!

This is gonna sound stupidly ridiculous Holliwood,

Go to your printer, take out a bunch of paper, maybe 1/6" thick. Do the secretary thing and make sure they are stacked evenly. Hold it in both hands flat like a tray. Cup it around to make a tube/drum with the joint at the top.

If you did it correctly, you will see the tapers you need to have and why you are have`n trouble connecting sheet veneer joints. The last piece of a drum will have opposite tapers on each end.

You wouldn`t have to do this on flat surfaces !i

Make sense ?

If you use 90 degree joints, the corners will touch on the bottom, but not the top and the joint will show. When you hammer the joints closed, you smush up the bottom and get a lump.

If you wanna use 90 degree edges, you have to cut into a diamond and do it the way they make that tube in the middle of toilet paper !i

Caught all that OddBall.

Not easy cuttin matching bevel in sumthin 1/42 inch thick. lol.

Takin day or 2 off.

Did 5 venues yesterday. started @ 10am and finished at 4:30. Back in shop at 10am this morning.

Back is GONE.

get back at it later this week.

kk

new modern Sonor dual glide snare strainer and butt arrived today.

VERY nice piece of kit. Heavy cast units.

should be a great retrofit for my D471

more pix soon.

Hurry up !i