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Hello to all here. I just found this board & glad I did. My 1st post here. I just started my make over on an older early 80's LP oak drum. I am getting ready to stain it, but am trying to decide on a color. I used a gel like stripper to strip off the old finish. It works well. You just apply a very heavy coat of the stripper in one direction with a paint brush, & only make 1 pass over an area, let it sit for 20 minutes, then use a plastic putty knife to scrape off the finish. The 1st 2 times gets off the hard clear coat, then the next coats get off the finish stain. I pretty much liked what I saw at Home Depot, the Bombay Mahogony color alot. And when I came onto this board, I saw that another member here used it to transform his Giovanni drums & I loved the way his looked in the pics he showed. I am trying to load the pics of the drum & I hope it comes out. Take care all.

Well , good try..... no pics...


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How do you get the pics to show? When I previewed my post, they showed up, now on here they dont???

Did you upload the pic and hit "Add the file" and then "submit" the post?

Thank you Mike, thats all it was.

Looking good, this conga beauty!

The rim is mounted not evenly though.

Yeah, the rim was poorly mounted. That is the way it was when I bought it off my friend. Its an early 80's LP drum.. As soon as i got it, I got rid of the old dead skin & put on a Remo Fiberskyn3 on it & man what a difference! It came to life. The tone on this bad boy is too good! And I made sure the rim evened out as I tightned down on the drum.

I believe it has been a lot of work to sand down the shell?
DId you use a stripper? (you know what I mean, don´t you )

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Steven!
Oh my!
I have read frequently here that only elbow grease could help removing old paint and lacquer, not stripper.
Now I know why..

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Someone used one of those disk sanders on a Gon Bops I restored, swirlies all over the place, but that drum was
softer wood and I'm sure whoever did it used way too rough of a grit.

Yes I used a stripper to get the finish off. I have used it before with no issues. Once the clearcoat is off, I used rough grit sand paper to get the rest off. I have done a few drums like this over the years & all went well. Never had a problem.

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