That's wierd. still works for me. Don't know what else to do as I am away from the home computer.

Kurt, those are gorgeous! For some reason I missed seeing them. Hope you don't mind, I'll post the pic here.

wflkurt's 1941 Marble WFL:

[IMG]http://www.classicvintagedrums.com/kurt_marble.jpg[/IMG]

Thanks for posting that. The set is a 26,10,13 with the matching twin strainer snare drum. The finish is in excelent shape. The toms have white paint on the interior and the snare drum has a maple interior. The badges are aluminum wfl keystones with Wm F. Ludwig president around the airhole. I am quite certain the the white paint is original as I have seen that before on WFL's. The outfit I have in the 1941 catalog is called the capitol outfit and it came without a floor tom. It would be cool to find one though.

Beautiful!! ... what is the depth on that snare??

Seems like all the marble lacquers, regardless of maker, are the same green and beige colors.

Anybody ever seen a different color on that finish?

The snare depth is 7x14. Funny thing about the snare. It had dual throw-offs on it like it should but it had the wrong WFL throws. It had earlier versions which use a different hole pattern. Fortunately the previous owner installed a plate using the existing holes so no other holes were drilled.

I hunted e-bay and the drum shows for 5 years until I finally found the correct parts! It's not easy. There are two different strainer designs, a nickle and chrome version, a right and left half and lastly a shorter one made for a 5x14! It was worth the searching and waiting though. The drum is 100 percent original now and looks great!

There are a number of ways to do this using inks or oil paints. If you check out sites or books that do antique restoration or Faux (pronounced: Foe, it's french for fake) painting, it's done by "floating" the ink or paint on water, gently swishing the colors to a pattern that you like and with a piece of paper gently rolling the paper over this pool of color so that it prints itself on the paper. This is good for small projects.

The painters way is to use layers of paint in different colors applied to get different textures and "smearing" it to get that blurry look using dry paint brushes, feathers, burlap, wire brushes, sea sponges, etc.

I do this kind of work on occasion, I can do a room (10 x 12) in about 2 days. To do this on a kit would be kinda fun!

If you can't find anything let me know I can post a few sites and book titles that would be helpful. Or just pop in your local paint store and go to where they have the Wall Effects stuff and check out the kinds of crazy things that you can do with paint.

It can be very satisfying doing this type of finish. It's very relaxing and let's your imagination run wild, with Faux...anything goes!

I'm really having trouble visualizing how you get the ink in the water on to the paper... I can picture the ink floating into the pattern... like oil does in a rain water puddle.. but how do you get that on to paper??

We live in an old 20's bungalow and tried to do a feather faux marble kit on one of our fireplaces... took a couple coats of paint to cover that mess up.DOH

Can you think of any reason all these Marble Lacquer drums would show up in green and beige... I wonder if that was the popular real marble color when these kits were being produced?

I understand, this might help:

http://www.dickblick.com/lessonplans/2006marbleize/

This one is a bit better:

http://skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/marbelizing-paper/