Prepping a two-piece, alder, "reissue" style Jaguar body - ready for spraying a candy apple red, nitro lacquer paint job
Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar. Sealing and priming the body for nitro lacquer
Renovated, Late 1970’s Premier “Elite” Drum Kit – “Natural” Finish. Stands, cymbals and setting up…
Setting up my newly-restored 1970's Premier "Elite" kit, for practice...
Late 1970’s vintage, Premier “Elite” Drum Kit (#1) – “Natural” Finish. 16″ x 16″ Floor Tom – hardware, and head fitting
Continuing to fit out the restored shells for my basic, 22,16,14, 1970's Premier "Elite" drum kit. Now, the final piece of the kit - the 16" floor tom
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Fitting the neck to the body, and test-fitting a Bigsby B5 tremolo
After refinishing the neck for my blonde "Mary Kaye"-type Jaguar build - I can finally tap the neck with new bolt holes, and check the neck alignment with a gold Bigsby B5 tremolo unit installed. This is already becoming a quite distinctive-looking build...
Late 1970’s vintage, Premier “Elite” Drum Kit (#1) – “Natural” Finish. 14″ x 10″ Tom – hardware, and head fitting
Continuing to fit out the restored shells for my basic, 22,16,14, 1970's Premier "Elite" drum kit. This time - it's the turn of the 14" rack tom
Progress with a couple of Jaguar necks… Toning a PauFerro fingerboard, and prepping a re-lacquered headstock, including hardware installation
Continuing the saga of the repair, re-fit and preparation of two Jaguar necks, for a couple of my project builds. Lacquer repairs, finishing, hardware installation, and fingerboard toning
1980’s, Premier “1026” Snare Drum. Some notes on adjusting the replacement gut snares, tensioning the heads, and on using a digital DrumDial
Notes on early attempts to "properly tune" or tension a drum. Setting up this renovated, 1980's Premier "1026" snare drum for practice play, using a combination of "manual" procedures, with the additional help of a digital DrumDial
New Project – Late 1970’s Premier “Elite” Drum Kit (#2). Rebuild from parts – Assessing and prepping a set of spare shells
What to do with an apparently disparate collection of various, "orphan" Premier drums shells. A second "Elite" kit built entirely from salvaged parts, perhaps?...
Late 1970’s vintage, Premier “Elite” Drum Kit (#1) – “Natural” Finish. Bass Drum – hardware, and head fitting
Vintage, 1970's Premier vibe alert... Taking one of my "natural" Premier "Elite" 22" bass drum shells, re-uniting it with some original, vintage chrome hardware, and turning it back into a fine-looking, playable piece of kit.
Late 1970’s vintage, Premier “Elite” Drum Kits. Salvaging some original Premier “Everplay” heads, and applying a reproduction, vinyl logo
Getting the right "look" for the bass drum reso on a restored, "vintage" kit, depends either on getting hold of decent reproductions, (if they're even available), or on finding ways to sympathetically "spruce up" surviving, original period heads
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