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Sealing Mahogany Before Wrapping
That's the exact color wrap I'm going to use on my set. Yours looks like the set on Jammin Sam's site. Really beautiful. I hope mine look this nice...
12 years agoSealing Mahogany Before Wrapping
Well I actually found a note on the Precision Drum site that mahogany shells should be sealed anyway to prevent dyes and stains from bleeding through...
12 years agoSealing Mahogany Before Wrapping
I'm re-wrapping my Slingerland Jazz kit because it was poorly re-wrapped by a previous owner. So I've stripped the shells and gave them a light sandi...
12 years agoRemoving Wrap Glue Residue
So I ended-up buying a quart of Zinsser StripFast stripper at my local Menards and this stuff Rocks. It's a thick paste stripper that softens the glu...
12 years agoRemoving Wrap Glue Residue
I tried another experiment last night. I heated the glue film with my heat gun until the surface of the shell was mildly hot to the touch, then I imme...
12 years agoRemoving Wrap Glue Residue
Will try the Xylene when I can find a small can of the stuff. I could only find a gallon and I don't want that much sitting around. I tried some Formb...
12 years agoRemoving Wrap Glue Residue
I'm re-wrapping a little Slingerland Jazz kit that was re-wrapped by a previous owner. The wrap was lifting and the glue appeared to be lumpy under th...
12 years agoVintage Slingerland Snare ID Help
I just drove over and looked at the drums. They wer about 15 minutes from me. Waste of time. Sorry to everyone cranked-up. He's not a scammer, he's j...
14 years agoVintage Slingerland Snare ID Help
I found a picture of this drum on VDG in the 1936 catalog, marketed as a Radio King. Thought the RK was always solid maple. Mark
14 years agoVintage Slingerland Snare ID Help
I'm looking at a vintage snare drum for sale. The pictures I have aren't very good but it looks like a 50's Slingerland chromed metal snare with strea...
14 years agoPoor Man's Radio King
Here's a small snare drum project I just started and wanted to share. I recently got back an old Slingerland Festival snare that I had lent to a fami...
14 years agoSlingerland Festival Snare w/ Zoomatic
Yes, magnet sticks to inside of shell. I swapped the Zoomatic strainer from this drum onto an Artist of mine because the knob was intact so the pictur...
15 years agoSlingerland Festival Snare w/ Zoomatic
Here's the strainer mount screws. No extra holes. Mark
15 years agoSlingerland Festival Snare w/ Zoomatic
No, it's not a sound king. Shell is steel (magnet sticks) and it doesn't have the 3 lines (I have a Sound King). Having problems with uploading an im...
15 years agoSlingerland Festival Snare w/ Zoomatic
I've got a 70's era Slingerland snare that has a Festival steel shell with a Zoomatic strainer and butt plate. I thought the Festival came with the ch...
15 years ago