Hey everybody, some of this information is repeated from another thread, but I thought I would post a dedicated one in case anyone's searching for it later.

I purchased a set of old Pearl fiberglass drums recently, and my plan was to leave them to their natural fiberglass look (a poor man's Blaemire if you will), but a couple of the drums had extra holes. After trying unsuccessfully to make a fiberglass resin that cosmetically matched to fill the holes, I filled them anyway, and decided to rewrap or paint.

I went to the hardware store and checked out roof flashing, as I've seen on this forum before. It comes in 10' and 50' rolls, and you can get various widths up to 24" wide. Some of the rolls were natural aluminum on one side and a gold-tinted aluminum on the other.

I opted for the normal aluminum. It cuts easily with a decent pair of kitchen scissors and as long as you take your time, it is pretty easy to work with. Very thin!

I bought enough material to wrap a 14x24", 10x14", 16x16" and 16x18" plus a snare for less than $60 including tape!

Normal rewrap rules apply. Put the seam under a set of lugs. I used strips of 3M double-sided tape to adhere the wrap to the shell, and it went on quite nicely with a little setup time and patience. I trimmed the wrap to about 1/4" less than the drum depth to leave a little room for the heads to seat, and left about 1" of overlap to make sure I could really stick it down.

I drilled out the holes from inside the drum, with the outside of the drum pressed on a block of wood to avoid any weirdness with the holes.

And that's really about it. It looks FANTASTIC and totally appropriate for Pearl drums of this era - would work well aesthetically with any drums from the late 70s/early 80s. I will post more photos once it's all complete, but here's a start.

If you have been looking for a wrap solution for those old cheap kits where using real wrap isn't financially feasible, this is a great option.

Will post more photos soon!