Put it on a 24.

It`s sad when those heads go. Seriously, If were mine, I think I would turn it over, get flat and lined up and bondo around the breaks with a knife. It`s not gonna have drum tone/value anymore. Where would you stop tightening ?

Maybe bond it to a Richie ring inside and have one ply center.

I would go with Mitch's idea + hot Hide glue! The hot hide glue will adhere the calf skin to the new carrier rim just fine and once cured, the bond will last forever.

John

I recently fixed a power stroke 3 head that the beater had torn by taking a newer Evans 10" coated head and cutting off the metal hoop. It was a 2 ply head so I used contact cement to adhere the two plys to the power stroke, one on each side. Point is that the contact cement did hold very good and did not give out under tension. I have not played this drum yet but plan to do so very soon. I have high hopes that this is going to work for a long time. I will report back once I get it playing, if you want.

It is entirely possible to patch a calfskin head, I have done a few patch jobs myself with a good deal of success on non batter heads. Unfortunately, your head ripped at the flesh hoop and would make for a very hard repair due to location. If you removed the head from the flesh hoop and cut it flat to mount to another calfskin drum head you wouldn't need any adhesives, just lying it flat on a wet calfskin head and keeping it under pressure for a day or two (facing the heads face down with something on top of them to keep them flat will do) will ensure a good mount. When dry after being wet, calfskin form a very strong natural glue, there is no glue other than natural glue used to hold the original head together. This alone should be enough to keep the old skin mounted on a new head. If however; you decide that isn't a route you want to go down, I have an artist that could recreate the head. It won't be cheap but quality work never is.

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as a conservator in the art world and preservationist my idea would be to clean with conservator cleaner . and treat it like a canvas repair except using bits of hide(glue on the back side ) then build it up with gesso and recolor the areas gary