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Lyon & Healy cleaned up

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I picked this up on eBay a month or so ago. I was going to paint it but decided to leave it with the worn metal look. I did remove the black lacquer paint on the hoops. I put a coat of Tung Oil on them.

I tucked a NOS calfhide on the snare side (Slingerland still in the box pictured) and a calfhide on the batter - both on the original wood flesh-hoops.

The snare gut is 11 guage from Cooperman. They're tempermental to install but worth it in the end.

I will trim the gut snares when I finish tightening them - it takes a few days to do that properly.

Everything is working so far - the strainer, snares and thumbscrew lugs. It sounds like a deep ole snare drum...just like it should.

Posted on 10 years ago
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Soundfile?

Posted on 10 years ago
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She looks great !!

Labor of love, that one !!

Kevin
Posted on 10 years ago
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Nice job on the snare.

80's 13 pc sonor signature
1979 12 pc ludwig power factory
Posted on 10 years ago
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I'm still working on adjusting the snares. Gut snares take a while to straighten out and settle into the drum. Here's what they look like as of yesterday.

The sticks came with a G.S. Knapp snare drum that will likely be my next project. I don't know how old the sticks are but they may be 100+yrs. The Knapp drum they came with was made in 1884.

Posted on 10 years ago
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Gary timeless classic right there !

Your drummers not much good is he!? What you need is someone that's as good as me. ! John Henry Bonham !!
Posted on 10 years ago
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Love it! Really nice work saving that old drum.

Cam

"If we can't be free we can at least be cheap" -FZ
Posted on 10 years ago
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WOW! Very nice!

Posted on 10 years ago
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An old drum that`s been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to have a second chance at life.You have breathed life back into that old gal` and she looks fabulous-outstanding rehab job!

Wayne

1967 Rogers Cleveland Champagne Sparkle
20,16,13,13.
1967/68 Rogers Dayton Champagne Sparkle
20,16,13,13.
1966 Rogers cob 7 Line Dynasonic Snare.
1967 Rogers "Humberto Morales" Timbales.
1980 Ludwig B/O badge 14x 6.5 Black Beauty Snare.
1980 Ludwig B/O badge Red Cortex
22,22,18,16,15,14,13.
1988 Sonor "Horst Link" HLD 590 14x8 Bronze Snare
Posted on 10 years ago
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Thanks people - but I really didn't do very much to it.

- Cleaned the shell and strainer parts carefully

- took the old gummed up black lacquer off the wood hoops and put some Tung Oil on them - didn't even sand the nicks out of them. I wanted the drum to keep it's age/charm.

- bought 8 era correct (seller said they're from an old L&H drum) lugs.

- bought new gut and I'm still fooling with it so it will seat/conform to the head

- tucked a NOS thin calfhide head on the snare-side and an older calfhide head on the batter. Both heads tucked onto the flesh-hoops that came with the drum.

The drum is playable.

Posted on 10 years ago
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