Floor Tom Build - good or bad idea?
Looking for opinions here. My current kit setup is a Pearl SMX Session custom in Vintage Fade, fusion sizes. I've never been particularly enamored with the 14" hanging tom and I had always meant to get an add-on tom, but I was always scared away by the $350+ price tag. (I mean, how badly did I REALLY need it, right?) At this point the SMX has been discontinued for a while, and I've not seen a matching 16" floor tom on ebay for a while.
This brings me to an idea I have been thinking of. Would it be dumb to try build a floor tom, robbing the lugs off of my 14" and trying to do a fade finish on a floor tom myself?
I got the idea from a website where someone did a fade finish with spray cans and it looked great, so I figure I could probably get it close enough to pass casual scrutiny. All told, doing a drum build like this would bring me in probably under the $200 mark, and I'm thinking 14" depth would probably be about right - I think 16" would be too big.
Here are pics of a guitar body done with a spray can finish.
Thoughts? Has anyone else ever done anything like this at home? I started to rethink the idea when someone posted a kit they made, but they did theirs with some pro-level equipment.
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