Reheading your own drum...

[the kid]

I reheaded one last month for someone that was the worst shape djembe I'd ever seen. I also charge 65 and was thinking to myself that the djembe probably wasn't even worth the $65 for the reskin. Flakey and jagged carving inside, worst bearing edge I had ever seen - very uneven, and also had rasp.file marks all the way around and they were deeeep. to boot, part of the carving actually went straight through the drum leaving a small whole and the broken skin I pulled off also had a layer of glue on it at the bearing edge

How did the drum sound when you were finished

[Dub Town]

it sounded okay considering. it was a smaller djembe and the person i was doing it for told me not to fix any of the issues on it, just change the head. Was not a djembe I would have personally played.

just realized my I didn't post the quote from this thread I was responding to so my post looks a little misplaced.