Concrete Pete
Senior Member
Hey Crew,
If this has been posted here before, or is an old trick, just ignore this post, but it's something I just discovered, and works great.
I'm on a limited budget since the economy in in the crapper, and save money wherever I can. That in mind, I needed to change out my dimpled and cratered drum heads (snare and toms) as they were getting to the point that they sounded "thuddy" from all the damage.
Long story short, I removed my smallest tom head and took a clothes iron to it, putting the head rim-up on a towel on my hardwood table, with a thin pillowcase over it, so as not to overheat it. After about 20 or so passes with heavy pressure on the iron- VOILA! The head looked brand new, and when mounted back on the shell sounded about 95% better. I did the same process with my other tom heads, and my snare, too- all with the same results. I just saved myself the cost of 4 new heads, and am amazed that such a simple trick works.
Rock on,
C. P.
If this has been posted here before, or is an old trick, just ignore this post, but it's something I just discovered, and works great.
I'm on a limited budget since the economy in in the crapper, and save money wherever I can. That in mind, I needed to change out my dimpled and cratered drum heads (snare and toms) as they were getting to the point that they sounded "thuddy" from all the damage.
Long story short, I removed my smallest tom head and took a clothes iron to it, putting the head rim-up on a towel on my hardwood table, with a thin pillowcase over it, so as not to overheat it. After about 20 or so passes with heavy pressure on the iron- VOILA! The head looked brand new, and when mounted back on the shell sounded about 95% better. I did the same process with my other tom heads, and my snare, too- all with the same results. I just saved myself the cost of 4 new heads, and am amazed that such a simple trick works.
Rock on,
C. P.