You have a good point, and I have a ton of these drums. Look at the pic below of my "lego's" LOL!I actually have a third 14x22 bass shell, thats the one I might make virgin. I bought a third one because I wanted all drums to have the maple interior instead of the granitone. I had one maple and one granitone bass, so I bought another maple one. Now the only drum sporting the granitone interior is the 16" floor tom. I would like to find a maple shell so the entire kit would have maple interiors. You can make two kits out of this easy, but its fun to build a monster set once in a while. Fun drums to play around with.
What Finnish is your 14x22?
Please tell me it's not metallic grey.
I've been hunting for one for a while to make my own prog/rock drumset.
But seriously if you wanted to the granitone Gould be taken off and I'm sure you of all people on here could get the less desirable wood grain beneath to look great.
Btw mine are all granitone. This American "third rate" set can stand up to most any other drums I own sound wise.