A kick port on a snare drum? huh?

Sure, why not a Kickport on ANY head?!?

I think they would probably work wonderfully on old calfskin bass drum reso heads. Especially on an old Slingerland bass drum reso head.

Painted head = kick drum

Kick port = kick drum

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But why not a snare?Excited

well yeah, you're going to have to mic that snare somewhere?

Zagly!!!! It's better if you port an NOS calfskin foreskin kick drum head, but a snare is good as well!!!!

yeah, w/ a calf skin reso on the snare too

in reference to the OP, the chrome wrap (sanded with 220) after removal from the tom

hope its detailed enough

That actually has a really nice look. Did you wet sand it? If not, I may use an orbital just to see the pattern.

Question, though -- is it dumb to go after a scratched up COB in terms of value... or is it a matter of "what the hell's the difference"?

That was just dry-sanded while it was still on the shell, one direction only, and using some sort of backing surface (in this case, a foam-backed handle thingly i got from a hardware store with a matching set of velcro backed sanding pads)

The backing helps with the even-ess(sp?)... I found using fingers leaves swirl marks, as you can easily create little arcs at the end of each sanding stroke

I only do this to shells one they've reached the point of no return... all my drums are "player" drums, so by then cosmetics outweigh value