Dignan
Silver Member
About six months ago I scored a 3-piece Pearl Forum kit and three toms from a Royce beginners kit...FOR FREE on Craigslist! The owners parents just wanted them out of the house. Both kits had the standard wine red wrap you see on so many beginner kits. So I decided to try my hand at refinishing some of the drums to make a jungle kit. I used some kind of a mahogany wood stain and went for a fade look (darker towards the hoops and lighter in the middle. Two coats of polyurethane finish shined them up. The bass is a 16" floor tom from the Royce kit that I converted into a bass drum (with the Pearl JG16 Jungle conversion kit).
So far I really like how they all sound. My only screw up was not covering the inside of the shells and I got fingerprint stain on the insides. As long as I used coated heads all the time it's not noticeable. Not too shabby for my first shot at doing this. I'll probably go ahead and refinish the Pearl 22" kick so I have a more versatile setup. I know, I know...another wood stain finished beginners kit. Not original or extraordinary but it was still a fun project and they look better than they did with the wrap. Here they are...
So far I really like how they all sound. My only screw up was not covering the inside of the shells and I got fingerprint stain on the insides. As long as I used coated heads all the time it's not noticeable. Not too shabby for my first shot at doing this. I'll probably go ahead and refinish the Pearl 22" kick so I have a more versatile setup. I know, I know...another wood stain finished beginners kit. Not original or extraordinary but it was still a fun project and they look better than they did with the wrap. Here they are...
