Thought it appropriate to start this thread as the old one, "wood veneer" had lost it's way..Refer back to that thread for in depth info and pics.

Almost finished the teardrop restoration!!! Thanks to Atomicorganic for pics of his Rosewood kit and all those who cheered me on.

Started out with shells, Sonor 3ply beech with re-rings (20" - late 50's, both toms, mid 60's) that had been stripped and re-wrapped in some horrible pink metallic chrome wrap. I stripped off the %#*^% pink and covered the shells in rosewood paper-backed veneer. All the chrome lugs and rods had to be thoroughly cleaned which was both a pleasure and a pain :) :(

Put the final lug on the bass, left it virgin as sugessted and installed the original Sonor 60's Evans head for the picture. The tom is virgin also and sits in a snare basket. Still looking for the bottom hoop on the 16" floor tom though. the one in the pic is a Ludwig. Anyone have a spare teardrop 16" hoop?

The finish on the rosewood veneer is 4 coats of Minwax rub-on urethane, followed by a light sanding with 0000 steel wool between coats, followed by two coats of Tung oil with a steel wool rub in between.

The bass drum shell was from the late 50's and came with the two "mallet" badges you see.

I have the two-part 60's "Made in Western Germany" badges for the toms but I can't seem to find the small silver tacks for them??

Went searching at Home Depot and other hardware places. Anyone know where to find the silver tacks?

Thanks for everyone's help and encouragement in my first full kit restoration. Great vintage sound by the way, very creamy and dreamy :)

Kelly