Restoring a Vintage Tama FibreStar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- I had the opportunity to snag up this vintage set of Tama fibrestars for a pretty fair price, so I couldn't pass it up. It was in great shape for its age but the wrap was falling apart. The previous owner was going to rewrap the kit with carbon fiber contact paper, but never got around to it. I wanted to liven it up some so what better color than yellow!
Everything I used in the video, plus more!
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What color would you rewrap your kit?
rdavidr black😎
Safety Orange
Turquoise/blue/ green like ocean kinda stuff
Glittery silver all the way. Them look hot
Solid white
I'm the previous owner of this kit. David did this kit total justice!!!
The carbon fiber wrap was my attempt to do SOMETHING to this kit as the wrap was in rough shape. I gave up on it and glad David was able to give this kit its proper due.
If it makes you feel any better, I think carbon wraps look sick in the right context
@@jackhwthorne
It can however, I was toying with the idea of rewrapping this kit and tried the carbon fiber as an experiment. Not a huge fan then I had some other things come up that I put the rewrap idea aside.
It all worked out as David did justice to this kit....more than I could have!
It’s true I was the kit
I prefer the faux carbon to the lars yellow, but respect for realising you didn’t have the time and passing it on to someone who did.
Dave: *applies white lithium grease to literally everything, meticulously cleans all hardware components prior to assembly, and can remove JB Weld with only a razor blade*
Also Dave: I didn’t bother gluing the wrap to the shell
what do you mean? it's self-adhesive. like mactac.
@@sebp400 he didn't glue it all the way around, he just pulled it taught and stuck the overlap. the lugs keep it in place just fine.
I had to rewind that, I was like "what??"
I always think of Tony Williams when I see a yellow kit.
I was going to post the same thing! Tony Williams yellow.. nice color choice David!
I think of John Stainer, specially if it's a Tama
I think of Dennis Chambers
Bill Bruford 1990's with King Crimson... yellow kit and a matching yellow suit
Dude. You are a WIZARD. This is such a cool wrap.
🧙♂️
He's a drumzard
Or bearded drum wizard
indeed
Looks good and sounds killer! The vinyl logo you put on the front is brilliant! Well done dude.
The reveal on this kit made my mouth drop. I’m extremely impressed with how good that yellow looks and what you did with the hoops. This is why I watch rdavidr. 👌
Sounds great! Think I’ve convinced my uncle to give my his late 70’s fibrestar, it’s 24” 13” 14” and 18” the rack toms are concert toms unfortunately but my get a bearing edge cut on the 14” and just have the one rack, I enjoy your videos, thanks from the uk
pls dont butcher the concert toms, just buy a 14"
We just give a like here but definitely there is so much work behind this content David, we really appreciate your work...keep doing this, you are the man!
Sound was absolutly AWESOME !!!!!
I worked at the Home Depot for 13 years, I’d gone for orange. I’ve been sponsored for my rehab, I chose drums! Every Thursday I have a drum lesson. I’m disabled for life, so financially for me to purchase my own kit, well my chance are nil. Back to your video. Looks great, nice job.
I gave one of your drum stickers to the guitar player in our worship band at church. He filled in for me at a Thursday practice that I could not make. He thought it was the coolest thing.
Nice Job David. It's fun to watch you geek out over your never ending supply of drum toys to tweak and play with.
Love the yellow! Excellent video. Also, ur playing is awesome. 😎
I love how controlled they sound except for the snare is a wee bit dry. Everything else sounds great and the goofy wrap choice worked. 👍🔥🐕
Excellent. Thanks for sharing! You’re a true craftsman, teacher AND a good drummer.
THE SNARE , my dream, not high, not low, still sounds. Love it!
Thanks rdavidr for another great video. I spend at least an hour a day just watching all your vids bc they are all so good. Keep up the good work
My goal in life is to have a drum workshop like yours. Great kit right there and i'm not a yellow type of guy either but it works somehow lol.
Late 70s kit. I have an Imperialstar kit from the same era. Is the royal pewter color with the same hardware. The wraps from those years were not great. Nice job!
He made it look easy. And I know damn good and well there is NOTHING easy about rewrapping.
They look great and sound fabulous!
Congrats! Wonderful job
didn't know rdavid could rap...
straight bars son
Rap sucks
@@69zenos1 Not true.
Those toms sound phenomenal!
The floor tom sounds just amazing🤤🤤
I repair quite a few vintage shells, and the one thing I would offer is how I cut the holes through the wrap. I use a small cordless drill and a block of wood. I determine the correct drill bit size for the hole. Hold a block tightly against the wrap side and drill through the hole into the block. Takes less than five minutes to get all the holes done and they're cut clean and exact.
Seriously like the nicest looking set I’ve ever seen
Man this kit turned out super clean. I love that custom sticker you did
Aww I love the kit!!! I might make mine a dark red or a white, but I love the green too.
That's a really beauty Tama. Congratz!
This has to be one of my favorite TH-cam videos of all time.
Prolly your best one yet! Great job.
Dude that came out beautiful man!
This was a Really Great Video! I had never heard of Tama Fibre Stars before. Nice Job and the Kick Hoops Made it stand out.
You picked a color I’d never even consider but man oh man, that bad boy looks good.
Love the yellow! Nice work my dude
The kit is great but can we talking about how good David just sounded
I love how it looks and sounds.
Those turned out great yellow actually looks pretty good
That floor tom is low, and phat. Damn it sounds good. Nice color choice.
That yellow is so epic!!!
This might be the driest sounding kit I've ever heard. I've never even seen or heard a fiberglass kit in person, at least that I know of. Glad I watched this.
Beautiful, just beautiful.
Dude that kit looks amazing!!!!
I, for one, think carbon fiber looks good on a lot of things. Drums included. At least you did something cool with these fiberglass shells!
I wasn’t sure about the yellow at first, but if looks fantastic I love the bass drum hoops too they really tied it all together, and they sound really good
Man... your my hero!!! Supercool all the things you do! Thanks!
Man, nice job! Looking forward to those Fibes kits! I've redone a few Fibes fiberglass toms before and they sounded great. I currently have a 24, 13, 18 Fibes (Martin era) acrylic kit with a matching snare, but no fiberglass stuff anymore. Keep up the good work, man! Love your videos!
Reminds me of John Coghlan’s Yellow Premier kit. Part of it can be seen on “John Coghlans Life Laundry” here on TH-cam.
As an ex tribute band drummer from London, really love watching your videos.
Holy shit, instantly subscribed the moment you wrapped that first tom 👍
Beautiful!
woooooo! That yellow really pops. looks purty! great resto. great vid.
Fiberglass drums tend to go one of two ways. Drummers either love them or hate them. I own two Pearl fiberglass series. One has standard toms. The other has concert toms.
I've seen very expensive fiberglass drums and I've seen them go very cheap. It just depends on the buyer.
You did a great job as usual!
I own an original run Pearl Wood-Fiberglass kit. It's amazing. I love the 12" tom, probably the best sounding 12" tom I've ever heard.
I always loved the sound of fiberglass drums... didn't love hauling them around though! I've got an old pearl fiberglass kit and I think I'm gonna give them the rewrap treatment!
Well that’s just screaming out in yellow. 💛👍
You are a real more as drum tech but an artist not only as a drummer but and for sure as a technician!
this kit looks and sounds SO badass
Kit looks great and sounds even better!! Nice groove.
Totally get the “not sure about the yellow” in the UK we would say “it looks a bit chavy” and that’s coming from a guy who owns a gretsch Catalina in copper sparkle, but once it was done, looked and sounded amazing! MORE CONTENT!!!!
LOVE the yellow, and I never knew about Fibrestars. Great work man!
With how tight that kick is, with such fast decay that would make a really good studio kit for modern metal/death metal production. You should consider contacting Toontrack and record samples of this kit for EZ Drummer/Superior Drummer.
It looks awesome. Well done.
One of the most talented people on this planet.
Those sounds (and look) amazing. What a great setup
good job as always David 🤟🏼
Looks and sounds great, I especially the sound of the floor tom.
Damn dude you did a great job. It's always a treat watching you do your projects,wish I could do what you do. Great sounding kit also.
Your my favorite TH-cam drummer man! You rock!!
Omg, complete package! Sound great, look great!
Really loving the thud from the kick and Toms, never been a Tama fan but loving this kit
You are an artist.... Too much talent...
Color worked out very well.
I never expected to like the look of a yellow set
To speed up the time it took to cut out the holes:
I use an awl from inside the shell and as you're poking the holes hold a
small block of wood on the opposite side of the holes so the awl doesn't
just poke all the way through the holes lifting up your wrap. Then use
an cordless drill with a step bit going inside the holes from outside of
the shell. Perfect holes and if you wanted even cleaner use exacto
knife afterwards to clean the holes up but it's not needed since the
lugs hides any of that anyways.
Beatifull Drums man!!!! Congratulation for work. Saudações de Portugal.
Awesome episode rdavidr! I’m also in the fiberglass cult; “more birch than birch”. Love the channel!
Sick color dude!!! It could not be better!!!
Solid work man. Nice chops too!
Man! That kit looks fire!!! Love the wrapping.... Makes me wanna redo my Mapex Venus kit, but I think I'd do it orange....🤔🔶
Wow! These drums look & sound awesome! You seem to be acquiring a lot of vintage Tama Drums lately. As for Fibes, my first kit was a Fibes Crystalite Cleat kit from the 1970s with an 16” X 18” bass drum, an 8” X 12” rack Tom , & a 14” X 14” floor Tom. The kit sounded good, but I felt limited by it so I traded it for the 1987 Pure White Pearl Export that I currently have & love playing nowadays. However, I still have the Pure White Maxwin by Pearl 5 1/2” X 14” snare drum that was with my Fibes kit when I got it. It matches up perfectly with the Export kit & sounds great.
It's very Tony William's, even though he played a yellow Gretsch kit. Looks amazing! Needs black dots to complete the look. 👍
Always a good day when a new rdavidr vid lands in my feed.
Might have to look into one of these!! Best sounding toms i've ever heard!!
Man, you can be proud! It looks beautiful! And it sounds too!
Lofi Playlist on Spotify?
Hell nah I‘ll just watch David‘s videos for dem classy beats
Awesome job dude. I love the sound and looks of that kit. :)
Also, Earthworks are killer mics. Definitely on my wish list.
Great idea, Devoted effort, amazing result. Thank you for sharing.
The yellow looks great
Not only do they look great but they sound great too!
Two of them were Tamas. The last one I had was a sugar White 6 piece. Not sure what I think about the yellow finish until you were done with the whole thing and it started looking pretty Sharp. It's the first time I've heard a fiberglass set and not a bad sound at that. Love the nice tone you're getting from your Tom's. The only thing is for me a four piece isn't big enough. Need a couple more Tom's. But anyway nice job on a beautiful looking set.
Love that yellow
Amazing job! I like the floor tom sound very much!
I just wrapped my first kit this past weekend. I fully appreciate the part that sucks. I had to use two different size Xacto blades to painstakingly cut the various mounting holes out for the mounted and floor tom. Each took about 20-30 minutes. And I haven't cut the floor tom leg mount holes. Or wrapped the bass drum. They look soo good, but goddamn...the hole cutting is killing me.
Wow very nice work! The fibre looks similar to my Bello fiber glass kit. My drums have a painted finish like a fiber glass boat.
that yellow looks great.
That tom just sounds awesome man!
The best episode yet, great job!!!!
First I´ve to admit that you did a great job again. I´m always looking out for your next video. I´m not a yellow guy and if I had to rewrap I´d go for something red sparkle with big flakes. Kit sounds great and so do the cymbals. Especially the china impressed me very much and I hope you´ll get me some further information on this.
Set looks great and sounds great. Thanks for the video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍
Sick job my dude!
Wow. Never heard of them! Looks great!