diegobxr
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Hey everybody! Well, I wanted to share with you this little project I finished yesterday, in case some of you may want to do it too someday or just for the sake of looking at some drums.
Warning: This is gonna be one long thread with tons of pics.
Ok, I'll try to make it as brief as possible. Let's get started.
A few weeks ago I bought this old Pacific (pdp) drumset, It's a three-piece, 22"/12"/16". I don't even know what model is it or what wood is it made of, and the lugs are different than the actual ones.
As soon as I got them I started dismantling them. Took off all the hoops, heads and lugs and started removing the wrap.
Bass drum:
Luckily for me, these were glued only at the ends of the wrap, not all over the shell, and came out easily with a little help from a knife.
Then, of course, I did the same with the floor tom and rack tom. Here's the floor tom:
The glue leaves this ugly residue on the shells. I tried with alcohol and paint thinner but that didn't do too much. I ended up just sanding it off the best I could.
Before:
After:
"Sanding, sanding and more sanding" is the name of the game here.
After a few hours, this is how the shells looked like:
___
Ok, the next day, it was time to paint.
First, I covered every single hole and the bearing edges with painter's tape and then added some newspaper inside. This is the rack tom:
Then I painted with a brush. Of course, you don't want any brush-marks on your finish, that looks extremely cheap, so.. someone taught me that what you gotta do is: Just after you finish painting with the brush, you take a little piece of soft cloth and wipe the shell gently, always following the direction of the wood grain.
And this is how the shells looked like after just painted:
___
Next step: the uglyest one. Drilling holes for a tom mount.
Then.. the bass drum hoops. They're metal. Black metal hoops look terrible on natural-finished drums. The ideal would've been buying wood hoops, but I couldn't find any, so for now, I decided to paint these in a lighter colour.
Black hoop:
Painted hoop:
___
After the paint was nice and dry, I sanded the shells once again, this time with very fine-grit sand paper (320 and 1200 grit).
Finally, I started putting everything together again.
We then add some heads, stands and cymbals...
Warning: This is gonna be one long thread with tons of pics.
Ok, I'll try to make it as brief as possible. Let's get started.
A few weeks ago I bought this old Pacific (pdp) drumset, It's a three-piece, 22"/12"/16". I don't even know what model is it or what wood is it made of, and the lugs are different than the actual ones.
As soon as I got them I started dismantling them. Took off all the hoops, heads and lugs and started removing the wrap.
Bass drum:
Luckily for me, these were glued only at the ends of the wrap, not all over the shell, and came out easily with a little help from a knife.
Then, of course, I did the same with the floor tom and rack tom. Here's the floor tom:
The glue leaves this ugly residue on the shells. I tried with alcohol and paint thinner but that didn't do too much. I ended up just sanding it off the best I could.
Before:
After:
"Sanding, sanding and more sanding" is the name of the game here.
After a few hours, this is how the shells looked like:
___
Ok, the next day, it was time to paint.
First, I covered every single hole and the bearing edges with painter's tape and then added some newspaper inside. This is the rack tom:
Then I painted with a brush. Of course, you don't want any brush-marks on your finish, that looks extremely cheap, so.. someone taught me that what you gotta do is: Just after you finish painting with the brush, you take a little piece of soft cloth and wipe the shell gently, always following the direction of the wood grain.
And this is how the shells looked like after just painted:
___
Next step: the uglyest one. Drilling holes for a tom mount.
Then.. the bass drum hoops. They're metal. Black metal hoops look terrible on natural-finished drums. The ideal would've been buying wood hoops, but I couldn't find any, so for now, I decided to paint these in a lighter colour.
Black hoop:
Painted hoop:
___
After the paint was nice and dry, I sanded the shells once again, this time with very fine-grit sand paper (320 and 1200 grit).
Finally, I started putting everything together again.
We then add some heads, stands and cymbals...
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