WOULD YOU CARE.....FOR THIS OLD SNARE?

What would you do if you came across this old metal "Made-In-Japan" snare drum?

Would you buy it?  Would you trash it?  Just ignore it for starts?

Would you toss it in a corner?  Or maybe "gut it" for parts?

Hey!  This sounds like a Dr. Suess "Green Eggs and Ham" poem!!

"I would not eat them on a chair,
I would not eat them on this snare,
I would not eat them here or there,
I would not eat them ANYwhere!!"

Well, I have to begrudgingly admit that I actually did buy this snare drum with the nefarious intention of stealing the snare strainer off of it.  But luckily I found another strainer I could use so I didn't have to cannibalize this drum.  Here are some "Before" photos of this drum, which was quite filthy when I first received it:

So later, when I ran out of other projects to keep me busy, I decided to clean up this snare drum.  I didn't have anything else to do, so what the heck?  Here are photos of the drum from the same three angles as above:

Isn't that beautiful?  And the best part is, I put the same old, generic heads back on afterwards, tightened them up as snug as I could, and teamed this snare up with my Black Diamond kick drum and some 14 Quick Beats.  Was I amazed?!!  Absolutely!!  This "chromey wonder" has a slap-taculous CRACK that would...make a CRACKhead wanna.....do some CRACK.....or something.  Whatever.  So from now on this drum will be known as the "Chromey Crackhead."  Makes sense to me.  Seriously, this drum sounds freakin' incredible.  I love it.

That's all for this project.....ya crackhead.....