Hi, I posted this message on the Sonor Forum but there seems to be more audience here... so here it is again.
So, since a few month I was looking for a maple drumkit in Bop sizes, preferently from Sonor.
As my budget was rather tight, I was looking in the 3005/3007 series, but it seemed very hard to find as a kit. Or I had to order from the catalogue in the new Force Select series, but I found it to be a bit expensive and didn't want to wait months to receive my kit.
I finally found spare 3007 elements (in my dream sizes: 18"x16"BD, 12"x8"TT and 14"x14"FT) from a shop who made me a really good deal on them, since the new Force Select Series arrived so I ordered them directly.
BUT, the issue is: the floor tom is in the Brown Burst finnish (which I like) while the bass drum and the small tom are in the Midnight Blue Burst (which I hate)...anyway I was having a bargain on them so I jumped on it.
Now I want to have an homogeneous kit so I was thinking to sand the shells in order to have a rough maple shell to start with, and apply another finnish on it. If the maple shell look nice, I would go in favor of a natural amber satin finnish; if not a veneer or a Delmar wrap.
So my question is: as I imagine the lacquer is pretty hard, I would like to remove the lacquer before I sand the shells (with a 100 grade sand paper or finer coarse), but which product should I use? What is this solid lacquer made of on these 3007s? Polyester lacquer or nitrocellulose lacquer, or another weird chemical stuff ?
Thanks for your help!!!!
So, since a few month I was looking for a maple drumkit in Bop sizes, preferently from Sonor.
As my budget was rather tight, I was looking in the 3005/3007 series, but it seemed very hard to find as a kit. Or I had to order from the catalogue in the new Force Select series, but I found it to be a bit expensive and didn't want to wait months to receive my kit.
I finally found spare 3007 elements (in my dream sizes: 18"x16"BD, 12"x8"TT and 14"x14"FT) from a shop who made me a really good deal on them, since the new Force Select Series arrived so I ordered them directly.
BUT, the issue is: the floor tom is in the Brown Burst finnish (which I like) while the bass drum and the small tom are in the Midnight Blue Burst (which I hate)...anyway I was having a bargain on them so I jumped on it.
Now I want to have an homogeneous kit so I was thinking to sand the shells in order to have a rough maple shell to start with, and apply another finnish on it. If the maple shell look nice, I would go in favor of a natural amber satin finnish; if not a veneer or a Delmar wrap.
So my question is: as I imagine the lacquer is pretty hard, I would like to remove the lacquer before I sand the shells (with a 100 grade sand paper or finer coarse), but which product should I use? What is this solid lacquer made of on these 3007s? Polyester lacquer or nitrocellulose lacquer, or another weird chemical stuff ?
Thanks for your help!!!!