Thanks Jim.

I have an Ace down the street as well good to know I can pick up the Cape Cod cloth's over there.

I am sold on getting rid of the white. The stripping chemicals scare me a bit. What grit Sand paper would you use ?

The broken screws are gonna be tough because they snapped off flush with the female end of the lug. Might just have to hunt down 1 replacement.Lame

Any other suggestions ?

I sanded lacquer finish off of an 80s Yamaha kit a few months back.

Here's the post:

http://vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?t=22100

I would highly recommend this sanding set up. The pads stay in place with with velcro. I started with 80 grit, then went to 180, then 320.

http://www.zipsander.com/zip-xl.html

The 80 grit paper is aggressive, so I used it to get the job started. You don't want to sand through the first ply, because the one below may not accept the stain as well. Or... you may be trying to apply stain over old glue (both will be trouble). Your drum is a whole different animal, but I was not able to apply stain to my Yamaha after sanding, either because there was some residual lacquer or because the remaining outer ply was too thin after sanding. I ended up wrapping the drums with veneer, then staining it. I found out the hard way that I didn't even need to sand them! Simply applying the veneer over the old lacquer would have been a better idea. If your drum is one ply, then you won't have this problem.

Good luck. Keep us posted on your progress.

jim

If you soak that one lug in WD40 or PB Blaster, the busted screws should come out. My neighbor restored an old windmill years ago and reused all the nuts and bolts that had been sitting outside for nearly 100 years. He hit them every day with PB Blaster for two weeks straight and they came right off.

jim

Thanks Jim. I'm off to Ace for some supplies. Love the father daughter project! My 4 year old daughter loves helping me work on my drum projects. The wife says I am running a sweat shop. I will keep posting results as I move along. The exposed wood under the white looks phenomenal from what I can see. Anyone out there have a clue on that weird third stainer hole ?

Got a bit done on this over the weekend. Ended up going with a small bit of Citristrip to take off the white paint. I only decided to go with a stripper because it was such a light thin coat of water based paint. It literally fell off as I was putting on the Citristrip on. Didn't even let the stripper set at all. Just wiped it on and then took it immediately off, hit the residue with mineral spirits and this is what she had going on underneath the white paint.

I also discovered that the third hole above the strainer is supposed to be there after tracking a few more of these down on the web. Need to find a spacer that goes behind the strainer that is missing.

Off to work on cleaning up the nickel lugs and hoops !

Here is the end product ! Thanks for all your input. I really like how it turned out.

Another drum brought back to live and play another day !!

Looks great !!

Skapunk - Nice work bro! The drum looks great.

I agree, a worthy save!

John

Really nice work. Love the deep color. jim

Followed All your tips Auto Pilot ! Thanks again for helping out.