Look, the stain is already in the wood. Use the color stain over the purple, once you get the top coat of lacquer/poly/wtf eva...the just re-stain the purple to black, and pray you get just a hint of the purple to shine through in the black and add just a hint of maybe silver or copper glitter to the mix of the top coat of LACQUER...Not like I know anything about your tastes or anything..LoLoLoLo

Yeah...no.But Thanks jonnistix. Yes SirI don't think it's a purple stain. I'm pretty sure it's a paint because no grain shows through at all. There are a few chips and scratches in it and you can see the lighter color primer they used before painting.I'm sure that I don't want ANY purple showing though my Turquoise Strata. This is a DARK purple, it looks almost black, but out in the sunshine you can see the purple.

Hey all,I have an older set that I will be refinishing soon. It's a Mapex Mars Pro and is Maple/Mahogany/Maple plies. I want to strip of the old dark purple lacquer finish and redo them in a turquoise strata finish which has a black base coat. What is the best thing to use to strip off the old lacquer finish?Also, do I necessarily need to strip it all the way to wood?Since the base coat of the new finish is black, can't I just leave the old purple paint (or whatever it is) on the drum and just lightly sand and paint over it? Or would that be too much and choke the drum resonance?From what I understand (which isn't much) the resonance is based on the inside of the drum regardless of what is on the outside, basically.I hope this all makes sense.