A mistake that turned out okay

Stroman

Stroman

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I was swapping heads on my old 1950's Slingerland Radio King student model, wanting to try a reverse dot Evans that I had laying around. There were some nasty stains on it from these red window clings I once used for gels, so I thought I'd clean it up first. Sprayed it with 409, and it took the coating off! I knew alcohol would remove the Evans coating, but I didn't know 409 would.

Anyway, I mounted it up, and it sounds great! Even sounded okay with brushes. Plus I get to see the almost-70-year-old mahogany inside. 😁
 

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I vaguely remember someone used to sell spray cans of head paint. Lo and behold, here's a thread on the very subject... rewinding the DFO time machine to 10 years ago ........ 🕰️ ...... and, cue Bermuda....

Coating and Re-Coating heads?

I was thinking the other day, what makes the process of coating a drumhead so special? I love the sound of coated heads, but I can't really find any information on how drum heads are coated in the first place. How could one replicate the coating process? I'm thinking it could be as simple as...
www.drummerworld.com
 
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JoeVermont said:
I vaguely remember someone used to sell spray cans of head paint. Lo and behold, here's a thread on the very subject... rewinding the DFO time machine to 10 years ago ........ 🕰️

Coating and Re-Coating heads?

I was thinking the other day, what makes the process of coating a drumhead so special? I love the sound of coated heads, but I can't really find any information on how drum heads are coated in the first place. How could one replicate the coating process? I'm thinking it could be as simple as...
www.drummerworld.com
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Very interesting. I'm not in a hurry to coat this one, because it sounds fine, but it's good to know it's doable.

Maybe an experiment for another day. 😊
 
Interesting, I use 409 on my coated heads occasionally if they’re starting to look a bit dirty but are otherwise okay. I only use Remo heads and the 409 doesn’t affect the coating at all. So that must be an Evans thing.
 
TK-421 said:
Interesting, I use 409 on my coated heads occasionally if they’re starting to look a bit dirty but are otherwise okay. I only use Remo heads and the 409 doesn’t affect the coating at all. So that must be an Evans thing.
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Oh yeah, definitely an Evans thing! I've used 409, alcohol, whatever on the Remos and they're fine.
 
I put a clear batter head on my 6.5 X 14 snare drum. At the first gig it drove me crazy!!!! Being able to see through it to the bottom of the drum messed with my eye/hand cordination and my snare playing dynamics suffered. If I did not look at the drum while I played it I had no problem.

So I lightly sanded the head so that I could not see through it. That fixed the problem.

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Hollywood Jim said:
I put a clear batter head on my 6.5 X 14 snare drum. At the first gig it drove me crazy!!!! Being able to see through it to the bottom of the drum messed with my eye/hand cordination and my snare playing dynamics suffered.

So I lightly sanded the head so that I could not see through it. That fixed the problem.

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Did that change the sound any? Was it a blend of coated/clear or anything?
 
Capital D said:
Did that change the sound any? Was it a blend of coated/clear or anything?
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No not that I noticed. But I was playing loud rock songs.
I just lightly sanded the underside of the head with 400 grit sand paper so that I could not see through it to the bottom of the snare drum.

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