I have a feeling that this will sell for enough that it won't be economically feasible to strip it to make a couple of fake Jazz Fests. If you could pull off a perfect fake then you could clear some pretty good money but that would be mighty tough to do since you'd have to get the wrap into the scarf joint.
The new version of the wrap is close but doesn't quite cut it when put next to a "real" drum. So there is incentive to try to strip authentic wrap. I had a chance to buy a club date bass drum in rough shape and considered doing just that but even that drum was too expensive when I considered A: what I'd end up with and B: there was no guarantee that I'd get a useable piece of wrap off the drum (sometimes it practically falls off a drum and sometimes it only comes off in little stretched out pieces).
Figure top dollar for a "created" OBP Jazz fest is around a grand. If this drum sells for something around that figure (which I think it might since OBP seems to be "Magic" even on drums that have nothing to do with Ringo) then you're risking a lot to try to get that wrap...and you'd still need two Jazz fests to rewrap.
And if they try to pass it off as the real thing to get $2-4000 then they are likely to get caught unless the buyer is a fool. I suppose that anything is possible though, I've heard of scarf joints being opened up for this purpose.
I just hope the cocktail drum survives, it's very cool.
