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  • Are that drums Jinbao or simillar? Low cost drums, I mean. My drums are Jinbao, and I'm thinking about removing the covers and paint the wood directly, in a simillar way of yours.

  • man, ur funny! :D

    i did learn a few things - to do and not to do.. but, u got my respect just for trying - i aint got the balls yet to even try.. i have a set of an old pearl, its good wood so i dnt wanna ruin it!

    learning in the process - it's a win-win really.

  • should spray that finish on

  • when i said i have like residue that feels like fuzz on the drum. idk what to do

  • Great video! I refinished a drum kit that someone was throwing away. Almost the same kind you had with the black shell. Looks a lot better now. It's a good at home practice kit.

  • good video, i watched it 'cause it's funny. I Just painted my snare in quite the same way but with ways more steps. I'm thinking about refinish my entire drum kit, i used a spray to apply the lacque but it was not too good and it would be expensive for a hole kit. How hard is it to apply the clercoat with a brush? (i dont want brushmarks)

  • @MatrioskaCigany ive worked with just wood and clear coat in general alot and ive found if u do what he says dont go crazy with putting it on the brush you should be fine

  • is there anyway you can just paint the wrap? and not take it off

  • I agree on leaving the bass alone and not support anything. Great video and project. Did the drums sound any different after taking the wraps off?

  • how did you get the glue off of the shell?

  • Cool vid!

    Im thinking of a refin on my Gretsch, but it seems to be a stained veneer as opposed to a wrap! D: I've tried the hairdryer...no luck! Any ideas?

  • Very Helpful, you helped me turn a shittily wrapped, painted 1980s drumset off craigslist to a beauty. :D

  • awesome video man! I just got a '99 pearl export today from a guy and before I bought it, he told me he had recently refinished it. Well, long story short...it looks like shit. I'm going to sand it down and refinish it soon. I hope mine looks half as good as yours.

  • @wiseshanks I remember those kits. It seems from memory those shells are made of pressboard (MDF) rather than wood ply. MDF looks like shit with stain on it, but would be okay if properly painted; or better yet, 'wrapped'.

  • @beAllbugger

    I agree alot with that statement. This was a shit job. Spreading shit on shit makes shit.

  • Where did you get your drum air vents from ? and what do the air vents actually do ? i mean can you just leave the hole there and it will sound the same? cheers man

  • I could be mistaken, but I believe the actual metal pieces in the air wholes are cosmetic. I doubt it'd change the sound if you were to skip replacing them, but I wouldn't for the reason of it just looking kind of strange in my opinion.

  • @JoesRedGuitar Cheers mate, fuckin great video btw, im doing mine in a dansih oil then buffering it in wax and its gonna look amazing - cheers for the help :)

  • you did a great job man. My Mapex Mars series is banana yellow, and the wrap is starting to warp. I have a dark cherry stain at my house and may use your video as inspiration

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  • do you know the exact name of the air vents cuz I destroyed mine and the local Home Depot doesn't know what the hell it is. or could you direct me to a place where i can find some replacements?

    

  • @supdenfoosukka If you havent gotten the answer yet, they are called Grommets. I hope this helps.

  • I'm no expert either but I know the kind of repetitive pressure that'll be comin from inside that bass drum so I'd put somethin on the inside as well as on the outside of the holes.

    Thanks for posting, you've made me consider refinishing my congas :)

  • thank you, my bass drum was rediculously wrinkled and sun damaged I was wondering if removing that plastic wrap stuff would be safe

  • Hopefully the wood underneath is in good condition

  • ONE QUESTION! My drumset has those 2 holes to mount the mounted toms,I wanna cover them,How do I do that? Please help,And No,I like my drum set like it is,Its a Vex Wine purple-ish color,So I dont want to repaint it,Its wrapped not painted,How do I cover the holes on the bass,The holes for the mounted toms? Please answer and thanks :)

  • @6sic666666

    you may have to drill some holes put just get a small piece of steal and cut it to cover the holes this way you can make it whatever shape you want. you can even take it somewhere to get the name brand of your drums put on it and nobody will ever know. i have done this on several sets in the past and people have asked if i got a new kick because it ads so much to the set

  • @peters661 Thanks a lot,But wouldnt it be better if I just match the holes? lol,Thanks anywho....Idk where I can get the brand imprinted tho :/

    THANKS THO! NICE KIT!

  • Must have been a true pain in the ass to sand the whole bass drum shell... And I complain when I have to sand/trim down the edges of a stick. Lol

  • You can use simple green if they're A's, Simple green does seem to slightly dull the brillance on A customs and AAX's.

  • Don't want to wake up the neighbours???? A Slipknot fan doesn't want to wake up the neighbours???? You gotta be kidding!!!

    Oh,I almost forgot . . . kudos for the video!

    \,,/___(oO)___\,,/

  • hows your set sound now? same? better? or worse?

  • So, the cool thing is, I'm doing the same thing right now to my old kit that's been sitting around for...3 years, 4 years? only I've re-sized all the toms, and put in re-rings, and re-edged the insides of them all so far, and and am now in the process of putting in filler, then filler sealer, then body filler, then off to paint, and then drilling new holes for the lugs and finishing the bearing edge, and then putting them all back together.

  • wat can i use so polish my cymbals but not mess up the logo? like any house hold product in particular or would i need to go out and buy one from guitar center?

  • I've never heard of any kind of polish damaging a cymbal, but I'm not sure. I own cymbal polish so i've never used other kinds, but I dont think there would be a problem.

  • @wcvj91608 there is a cymbal cleaning product called groove juice that works great, fast and doesnt mess up the logo if you follow the instructions.

  • @wcvj91608 before you think about using anything on your cymbals you need to have a listen and ask yourself "is this sound good" most products for cleaning metal are abrasive and even if they're not taking off the build up of stuff that gets on you cymbals will generally brighten the sound, this may not be what you want for certain cymbals as you may find overtones where you don't want em. Either way cleaning em too much wears em down faster.

  • @wcvj91608 Slice a few LIME fruits (the small green ones) in half. Use the sliced face to rub on your cymbals. This method worked on mine... way cheaper than cymbal polish. Hope that helps. 

  • YOU'RE A RETARD!! DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!! jk man! xD nice video!

  • i learned everything in the whole world. thanks! and good job dude

  • great video! i am refinishing my drums too at the moment!

  • hey with my mounting holes on my bass drum i just used wooden dowels but it might not look good becasue you stained yurs

    i paintned mine and you can tell

  • @brady5991 cant tell*

  • you have the same cymbals as me :)

    there awsome!!!!

  • lol u sound like the guy from transformers XD

  • Heh ok then

  • BECK Ftw!! Very good backgroundsounds-song or what its called! :P

  • the titles of the songs are in the video description

  • Hey im redoing mine and have gotten as far as filling in the holes and seems and all the imperfections. the first one i used a bit much of the wood putty but then again it was 5 am when i did that. now if anyone needs some advice take it from here. use a putty knife you can get one from a hardware store for about 5 bucks and you will always have it. but you can scrape away all the excess putty that is left.

  • i did mine a little while ago. i removed the wrap and just recovered them using only duct tape. i didn't feel the need to sand or anything, because the adhesive worked great by itself. i used a knife to cut all the holes for the hardware (time consuming) and put it all back on; it looks badass now!

    those rivet-style air vents are a bitch to remove. i wasn't going to replace them, though

  • I didn't remove the air vent when I unwrapped one of my drums

  • yeah man i ended up using regular paint for wood. that works too... make sure you sand the shit out of it!!!! I didn't do a great job with saning my drums so it left little wood bumps because i did a bad job at sanding.

  • hey what if i want to paint it a solid color do i have to replace those stupid little shell things?

  • hey man, please reply. does spray painting the drums work too?

  • i spray painted my drums and hardware , it came out pretty goood . if you take the wrap off i would sand it shitloads before painting , or you could spray over the wrap if you cant be bothered sanding :) i would use primers frist aswel .

  • hahaha "Glossy black nonsense"

  • I just got mine all sanded. Im glad i found your video tho.. didnt think to tape the holes lol. That would would have bad.

  • haha happy to help prevent catastrophy

  • I started staining today. Just read on a site that laquer on the inside will positively change the sound of your drums, by closing the microscopic pores and blah blah blah. Im going to try it, did you do anything to the inside of these?

  • what stain did you use. im want to get the same stain as you and metal plaques and i want to put credit for your name on my kit...... please tell me the name of your stain..

  • I don't remember what the name of the stain i used is. I went to home depot and picked an orange color that i liked in the custom water based stains. It may have been called tangerine, but i dont know for certain.

  • alright so i have a homedepot about 10 minutes from my house. so like if my wood grain is already like a orange base but i want it like yours and stuff..... .any ideas?

  • i'm not really sure man... i guess if the wood of your drums is already orangeish, then maybe go with a lighter orange.... i would imagine that putting orange on top of orange would make a verhy very orange color... but maybe thats what you want.i am hardly an expert in this department heh

  • hey man what grit sand paper did you use????

  • i wanna say 210 and 300

  • Nice job... But the color you chose is very gay....

  • hey HEY HELP I HAVE YOUR PLAN WHAT WOOD FILLER DO YOU USE ON THAT LINE....?? ??

  • Sorry buddy, i have no clue which wood filler i used. I went to home depot and they just had some like tube that kinda looked like a tube of tooth paste. It was so long ago i dont really remember.

  • @JoesRedGuitar alright thanks but when it dryed was it pretty hard? and not soft or whatever and blend in good?

  • um, when it dried i'd compare the consistency to how you might expect dried mud would be... almost brittle, but once you sand it down, it fills the cracks in quite nicely and accepted the stain just fine.

  • the kit looks great, i'm working on mine right now. you using a waterbased or oil based stain? what color stain is that, it looks great?

  • Hmm, i did this kit nearly a year ago, so i don't recall the name of the color. It's a water based stain that i got from home depot, and it's one of their custom colors. I would imagine if you went to home depot you could find it, they've only got a handful of different oranges.

    Thanks for the kind words!

  • you should have painted it.. that wood the shells are made out of does not have a good grain pattern.

  • So you decided to refinish your drums to be the same color as a dick!

    Nice work, it's your taste-I just find the color puke awful lol.

  • how to your drums sound now???

  • cool man ! thanks a lot ;)

  • Instead of going through that long and tedious process, how about just purchasing a more vibrant wrap.

  • because u cant completely customize it

  • @bamdude3

    Many people enjoy the process of doing things themselves, like me as you can see from my channel because it's all over it.

  • @bamdude3

    because its sooooo much cheaper.

  • That A Badass Idea To Refinish A Drumset...I Actually Have A Clear Birch Color On My Set And I Want It Black..So I'll Do That In The Near Future...

  • WOAH! Great freaking job Braddah!!! I've been back on forth about doing this with my set cause I am dead bored with that plain red wrap. But I really think I'm gonna go threw with it after seeing your results! Thanks for the inspiration Braddah!

  • GREAT VID DUDE! Oh and by the way, Your NOT a retard...

  • u walk around with the camera like charles trippy!

  • i am not familiar with this fellow... is that a good thing?

  • what grain of sand paper did you use?

  • hmm... well it's been a long time, but i wanna say i used 150 and 300 grit

  • lol that guy is funny... but good video none the less

  • "that guy"? do you mean me? heh ok good thanks

  • lol yes bro you!! you should have played ur drums, another day or something

  • we shall see what happens... im currently 1300 miles away, have been for about 6 months, and will be for 2 more. When i finally do get home, it will have been 8 months since i last even saw drums, so i'm gonna be pretty sucky, but once i get bakc into the swing of things, i'd say its a definite possibility.

  • did u do any wet sanding after adding the clear coat?????????????????

  • nope, just what i did in the video.... looks good to me tho!

  • what kind of clear coat did you buy?

  • i know it's lacquer but i can't remember what the brand is.... it's what ever brand that home depot had the most of.... if i heard it i would recognize it, but i'm currently in MS which is not where my can of clear coat is, so i can't check. I wanna say it's something like ... ok i have no idea... heh sorry

  • Yeah but I don't wanna make my drums look stupid man.....

    I mean right now there in a professeional studio and look quite good....

    I dunno =[

  • well for me anyways, i have my drums in my basement all the time for recording too, and since they are never out for people to see, i figured, what do i have to lose? i mean, the important thing about studio drums isn't how they look at all, but how they sound.... but don't do anything you're not comfortable doing.

  • i have started to do this myself will get you some video once i am done

  • sweet man keep me posted

  • I've relearned everything... in the whole world. Oh divinity.

  • Heyy Man I'm just wondering............

    I think this would be a really good project for me to do but I'm a little nervous.....

    Could I effect the quality of my drums Toanly and Visualy etc. ????

    Chers, =]

  • i really really don't think you could effect the sound of the drums unless you sanded a lot from the inside and changed the shape of it, but that would be hard to do. As far as visually, of course you would effect that part! thats the whole point!

  • Looking to do this over summer..... just wondering what grain sandpaper did you use becuase i heard its really hard to remove the glue from the shell???

  • That was a waf different way of staining drums from what I have seen.

  • Cool video that's what I'm doing right now. Thanks for sharing, good stuff to know.

  • How long did this take you?

  • Nice job Joe!

    You will be missed when you leave for the Air Force on 04/14/09

    JOE AND JOEL'S DAD ®™

  • Hmmm. That's not true at all. Wraps are for cosmetic and protective purposes. It doesnt effect the sound whatsoever.

  • home depot clear turns yellow over time..

  • i'm pretty sure it depends which kind you get. There are a few different brands and different kinds of clear. I have a family friend who is a crazy wood working dude, and he said the kind i used is one that doesn't turn yellow, though he recognized that some kinds do.

  • only water base turns yellow. I started this project a few monts back. Use a laquar clear and a oil base stain

  • my wood grain goes with the roundness, not up and down =/

    this is taking along time for me. but its looking amazing!

  • well so long as it looks nice, i don't see that making it anymore difficult. you should definitely post a video of your kit when it's drum

  • thanks for the video, im going to be doing the same thing to my set soon, and your right, theres not alot of videos to showcase the process.

    Gotta ask, whered you buy your stain and clearcoat?

    (p.s. you look like Shia LaBuff, and sound like the actor in the movie Dahmer. Also, you seen like a guy id hang out with, and if meeting someone over youtube werent so creepy and gay, id buy you a beer.)

  • i got both from home depot. The stain is one of their custom orange colors.

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  • ..sand/stain WITH the grain...and you wont get all those streaks...

  • Lucky for me, i sanded and stained WITH the grain, AND i have no streaks! So we're good!

  • nice vid

  • you always have to do it with the big long jawn

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