Started my make over...

[sancho27]

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.

[akdom]

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


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[sancho27]

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

[Mike]

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

[sancho27]

Thank you Mike, thats all it was.

[Mike]

Looking good, this conga beauty!

The rim is mounted not evenly though.

[sancho27]

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.

[Mike]

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 )

[SalseroBoricua71]

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[SalseroBoricua71]

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[Mike]

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..

[SalseroBoricua71]

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[bongosnotbombs]

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.

[sancho27]

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.

[SalseroBoricua71]

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