shells?

blazendreadlocks · Alley Cat Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 184

Well, my question is, if i decided i didnt want a wraped finish on my drums anymore would it be be ok to take the wraps off and stain the wood and laquer it? or even just laquer it, or would it change the tone,pitch,or sound? thanks (also my wraps are not taped or glued all the way around, there taped only at the seems so i can pull them off without messing with the wood.

rawrock · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

Yeah you can do that. It shouldn't affect the tone of the drums at all from what I understand.

blazendreadlocks · Alley Cat Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 184

alright kool, thanks for5 the reply

jak · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:15 pm Post subject:

Ill go out on the limb and say its logical that it will affect the sound of the drums. I dont know how much it will affect the sound, it will probobly be unoticable but im pretty sure their will be some slight change seeing as the drum shell will actually end up slightly thicker from all the lacquer.

As far as finishing them yourself goes, I wouldnt recomend it. Their is much more to it then meets the eye, and you wouldnt want to mess up your drums now would you.

If you should decide to finish them yourself and have questions just ask me, I should be abel to help you with just about any question you have.

Also, I might recomend that you do a stain but instead of using lacquer for the clearcoat use tung oil instead, tung oil is almost fool proof and is by far much easier, faster and cheaper to do. The end results wont be as great as lacquer but if you do it good it will look pretty darn good.
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blazendreadlocks · Alley Cat Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 184

Well if i do do it ill be fine, ive taken a wood class and worked with stains, my dad was a carpenter for philly for like 20 years i think, and he knows alot to, so im shur we would be fine, and its pretty easy to me to do it anyway so id be set thanks though

jak · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject:

Yeah, after the first coupel times it goes alot easier and faster.

What I cant stand are sandthroughs, you get a perfect finish and notice a little spot that could use a little extra sanding and boom out of nowhere comes a sandthrough, then you have to go through the whole process again.

I have found a method to minimize the ammount of sandthroughs though, what you do is use a finer grit paper than what would normally be needed, say 800 grit is needed then bump it up to 1000 if 1000 grit is needed bump it up to 1200 etc. using this method I now hardly ever get sandthroughs.
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