Have Yourself a Merry LITTLE Christmas....
This is what happens when the mini-drumset you said you were putting together for your grandkids actually becomes a toy for yourself.
STAR RED MARINE PEARL "JUNIOR" KIT
10 x 16" Bass drum
3 x 10" Snare drum
5 x 9" Tom
10 x 10" Floor tom
The grandkids are getting Barbie dolls and Tonka trucks. I'm keeping this until they're old enough to appreciate it.
In the original restoration write-up, which is way-far back in my blog posts where no one would care to find it, I described the main difficulty in fixing up this kit: the 9-inch rack tom. Somehow I managed to find two 9" Remo heads (for top and bottom) and overcame this obstacle. I think they were actually banjo heads but nobody really cares so here's the video of me "toying" around on this kit after I added some small cymbals, a little cowbell, a mini set of chimes and a baby bell tree:
I sincerely hope you enjoyed that. Now go have yourself a merry LITTLE Christmas.
MAKING A GOOD RESTORATION EVEN BETTER
The original restoration attempt, which is covered a couple of posts earlier and can be viewed if one is willing to scroll downwards a little ways on this incredibly interesting weblog, was a decent attempt with barely acceptable results that I always felt could use some improvement. Well, here was my opportunity.
Since this snare wasn't generating a whole heck of a lot of interest so far in my Reverb shop, I figured I had time to completely disassemble it, attempt this new method and get it all back together again before anyone tried to purchase it.
Needless to say (but I will do so nonetheless), the results were quite impressive and thrilled me to no end. This will absolutely be a method I use from now on, and in fact I have gone back to other projects to improve on them as well.
So without any more unnecessary build-up, here are the new updated photos that I have taken and uploaded to my Reverb post.
That's all for today. Go away now.
RANDOM RESTORATION: A BSP TEMPRO SNARE
And just to prove that I can be as irritating as others, I even added some obnoxious copyright-free pointless music in the background.
You're welcome. NEXT!
RANDOM RESTORATION: ANOTHER BSP SNARE
Yeah, I know it's another Blue Sparkle snare drum, but this one has sort of a turquoise vibe going on and it was only 35 bucks, so I confess: Yes, I bought it. So now that I have resterred it, I want to show it to you. Instead of just posting a bunch of boring photos I decided to do something entirely different and make a video montage....of the boring photos. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is that video:
You will appreciate the fact that I did not insult your ears with some random copyright-free music inserted into this video, because I don't like when people do that....and I can't figure out how to do it myself. I thank you for your time, and I hope you enjoyed the show. Now I have to go begin work on ANOTHER Blue Sparkle snare drum that I bought because....I'm just stupid like that.
RANDOM RESTORATION: 12" BLUE SPARKLE PEARL TOM
HOW IT STARTED:
HOW IT'S GOING:
Now the wrap and all the chrome has been shined up, proper parts have been installed, new heads put on and this drum is ready to rock. What I haven't shown here was the lengthy process of disassembling all the lugs, de-rusting the many springs, swivel nuts, bolts and washers, hand-polishing all of it thoroughly and putting it all back together. But I'm the only one who cares about any of that.
What next? Well, this one gets placed on the stack and I go to work on the next one.
And I'm sure you can't wait to hear about it....
THE THREE STEP PROCESS: A STEWART METAL SNARE
STEP ONE: BEFORE
THAT'S BASICALLY IT.
ON TO THE NEXT PROJECT....
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