Trauma Center: Extreme Drum Repair

The drum is a 5.5 x 14 inch Yamaha upper-line plywood snare drum, 90's era, with a stained red mahogany finish. As you can see by the photos, the snare-side bearing edge was brutalized. At one of the snare beds, the shell laminates had been torn away and were missing in a V-shaped area roughly four inches long and extending to about an inch and a half from the edge near the snare gate. Besides this major damage, the bearing edge was pretty chewed up on another part of the snare side. The shell was mostly in round otherwise. It was not a pretty sight.

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