Those are some big azz holes drilled!

If only it was the paint. That's the easy part - some thinners and rags and an hour or so and it was all gone. I'll need a magic wand for the holes though.

Blair- you have to be a bad azz to drill holes like that and paint a drum matt black - and a stupid azz

once back together it'll sound good which is the main thing.

Great job! At least they took off the lugs before they painted it. I wonder why they drilled the extra holes? Was there a different throw-off on the drum? This is going to be the perfect players drum. You could just use bare snare wires, search for a Rogers snare rail or buy one of the aftermarket snare rails.

Please update with some pictures when you are finished. At least it wasn't a 7 ribbed shell. :eek:

Thanks,

Tim

It had the correct throw on it but a generic butt plate. Maybe he (and I say "he" because I don't think a "she" would do this) fitted a new throw and then painted the whole thing and found that the throw wouldn't work covered in paint. Who knows.

I'll post pics when it's done.

"She" would pick a color with some definition. Like a pastel, something that would go good with the purse and shoes, but contrast with the dress.

Haha yes, true. But I'd be ok with that because as I've found, paint is easy to remove. However, I reckon only a "he" would replace a perfectly good strainer with a new flash trick one from the drum store, drilling ugly holes in the process. It's just such a young bloke thing to do. I'm sure many of us here have been caught with the smoking drill, a small pile of sawdust or metal filings and a dubious plan in our youth.

Well thanks to the generosity of Mark (idrum4fun) the Dyna is in playing shape. Ok, no snare frame and incorrect hoops but it does have a badge, butt plate and muffler which it didn't have before.

Mark has given me some good tips on getting the script badge tight to the shell - anyone else have some tips?

Thanks again Mark

That came out GREAT! The extra vent holes around the strainer will serve to keep it cool during performance thus avoiding the ever present issue of strainer overheating. Genius! Actually, the holes are not all that noticeable and this will be a fantastic snare drum; especially for $80.00!

First,nice job on the resto,those are quality drums and I have seen folks like you bring them back with better results than expected.

I aquired a dyna with a rail a year or two before the pure sound replacement wires came available.Mine sounded darn good with reg wires,but you owe it to yourself to hear/play one with the rail and wires if you haven't already,IMO you get a little more depth and volume that makes the drum sound even bigger, and I couldn't hit mine with a 2- b hard enough to choke it.

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Andrew! The drum looks great! Glad I was able to help!

Mark