Bo Eder
Platinum Member
So I finished a little drum project I started a few weeks ago. I acquired a 14x26 Pearl Challenger marching bass drum and decided to pair it up with a couple of other Pearl shells I had lying around. When I got the bass drum, it's wrapped white cortex was damaged and clearly yellowed by years of abuse in the sun. But an inspection of the maple shell revealed it was all cosmetic. The edges and roundness were good. I was totally gonna leave the way it was, but I thought the best of it and decided to put in the time to make it nice.
I contacted Sam at Jammin Sams and got a hold of some black wrap and with his instructions in hand, decided my first go at re-wrapping a shell. I didn't get the wrap on completely tight, but with all the hardware on, it's hardly noticeable. So on this bass drum I replaced the long lugs with Session Custom lugs to match my other two toms, and installed some old SP-30 spurs from another bass drum I had.
I'm ready for some Zeppelin now. The kit itself is a 10x14 rack tom, and a 16x18 floor tom, with the 14x26 bass drum. I keep debating getting into 15" snares, and I may want to try that in the future. But here's what the drums look like now, on their second life!
I contacted Sam at Jammin Sams and got a hold of some black wrap and with his instructions in hand, decided my first go at re-wrapping a shell. I didn't get the wrap on completely tight, but with all the hardware on, it's hardly noticeable. So on this bass drum I replaced the long lugs with Session Custom lugs to match my other two toms, and installed some old SP-30 spurs from another bass drum I had.
I'm ready for some Zeppelin now. The kit itself is a 10x14 rack tom, and a 16x18 floor tom, with the 14x26 bass drum. I keep debating getting into 15" snares, and I may want to try that in the future. But here's what the drums look like now, on their second life!