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MIJ stencil v.4 - Tempro BDP 3 piece
Just because I had the camera out, thought I'd take a family portrait. 14" Tempro floor toms: BDP, blue sparkle, and banana (gold sparkle underneath...
15 years agoAnyone recognize this snare?
I'm helping a friend of mine fix up this no-name snare, and cant figure out who made it. There are no markings on it of any kind. I checked the stra...
15 years agoWhat to do
Take a look at the before and after pics of this snare I cleaned up a few days ago. On the rims I used 0000 steel wool (on the rims only!) to clean t...
15 years agoReuther drums..mij
I think those might actually be Taiwanese. Still, a cool wrap. Looks like its in ok shape.
15 years agoMIJ stencil v.4 - Tempro BDP 3 piece
Thanks for the responses! O-bop, below is a pic of the badge on the floor tom. The bass and rack tom badges were removed, but the glue smudges are s...
15 years agoCannibalism-Part I
From vintagemore2000...
15 years agoMIJ stencil v.4 - Tempro BDP 3 piece
Well, this might be it for cn679. It might finally be time for me to hop off the MIJ train... Yesterday I found, and today I bought, what I have bee...
15 years agoRust Be Gone
And after: (By the way, if anyone knows how to date a Yamaha drum by its serial # please chime in. The model # is SD350MG and the serial # is OX-107...
15 years agoRust Be Gone
As an example, I thought I'd post the results of a snare restoration I did last night using the process I outlined above. (Well, to be honest, this i...
15 years agoHelp with P85 type strainer
Got my strainer fixed up! In case anyone else has this problem with their P-85 type strainer, I thought I'd post what I did to fix it. I used a #6-3...
15 years agoCan anybody identify this COS (MIJ?) snare?
I would be interested in a few more pics, maybe some from the inside, pics of the muffler, and close-ups of both strainers. Isn't that a rusty vent g...
15 years agoRust Be Gone
Thought I'd throw out my 2 cents here just because we're discussing the topic again (and it is an important topic.) For cleaning/restoring a drum I u...
15 years agoCan anybody identify this COS (MIJ?) snare?
Yep, cool looking drum, but something doesn't seem right. Maybe O-bop knows better, but I think this may be a sort of Frankenstein drum. The shell a...
15 years agowanted:pink tempro floor tom
You know, with digital pics it can be very hard to get a read on what a color is really like, with variables like flash, lighting, etc. That said, th...
15 years agoA new video tutorial of an impossible repair
Just awesome, John. I'm really impressed and glad that you took the time and effort to save the drum and also that you made the videos to post as wel...
15 years ago