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evilw
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Oh the things we do as kids ...
Back in 1971, I was a Freshman in H.S. trying to put together a cool set on a very slim budget. I had convinced my dad to help me buy my first "real" drum set in a Pawn Shop. It was a very faded Gold Sparkle Rogers B&B from 1960-61 consisting of a 22,16, 13 and wooden Holiday Snare. I really loved this set, but like all of my friends at the time, I wanted to be Ginger Baker. I soon found myself looking for another bass drum and another tom. I found a silver sparkle Beaver-Tail 20" in a junk store, so the quest was for a 10 x 14 tom.
One day, I walked into Drum City in Hollywood and saw a clearance rack with a Rogers Pink Strata 10 x 14 for half price! I convinced the old man to help out and decided that the color didn't matter as I could ... (here's where it gets bad) paint all of the drums to match! I know, it gets worse.
At the time the big rage was a horrible style of painting called antiquing.You would paint a base color and then smear another color over it. Of course, I chose the grossest color on the planet ...avocado green!
I would show up at gigs with this green monster and other drummers would say ... ugh ... what it that? lol
Ok, here is the good part. A few weeks ago I decided to see if I could carefully remove the latex paint form the 10 x 14 and see what was below. I carefully used Lacquer thinner to remove the paint and polished the shell with Novus#2 followed by #1.
Hey ... It worked! The shell was painted when brand new, so there is no fading at all. I polished the chrome, put it back together and it looks good as new. It even still has the original heads because public ridicule forced me to by a new Black Rogers set in 1974.
Now, I can't wait to do the Gold Sparkle drums!
-EW
Back in 1971, I was a Freshman in H.S. trying to put together a cool set on a very slim budget. I had convinced my dad to help me buy my first "real" drum set in a Pawn Shop. It was a very faded Gold Sparkle Rogers B&B from 1960-61 consisting of a 22,16, 13 and wooden Holiday Snare. I really loved this set, but like all of my friends at the time, I wanted to be Ginger Baker. I soon found myself looking for another bass drum and another tom. I found a silver sparkle Beaver-Tail 20" in a junk store, so the quest was for a 10 x 14 tom.
One day, I walked into Drum City in Hollywood and saw a clearance rack with a Rogers Pink Strata 10 x 14 for half price! I convinced the old man to help out and decided that the color didn't matter as I could ... (here's where it gets bad) paint all of the drums to match! I know, it gets worse.
At the time the big rage was a horrible style of painting called antiquing.You would paint a base color and then smear another color over it. Of course, I chose the grossest color on the planet ...avocado green!
I would show up at gigs with this green monster and other drummers would say ... ugh ... what it that? lol
Ok, here is the good part. A few weeks ago I decided to see if I could carefully remove the latex paint form the 10 x 14 and see what was below. I carefully used Lacquer thinner to remove the paint and polished the shell with Novus#2 followed by #1.
Hey ... It worked! The shell was painted when brand new, so there is no fading at all. I polished the chrome, put it back together and it looks good as new. It even still has the original heads because public ridicule forced me to by a new Black Rogers set in 1974.
Now, I can't wait to do the Gold Sparkle drums!
-EW
