Here are a few more

The Cigar band kit started out like this:

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By ct_pro_percussio at 2012-07-15

And ended up lookig like this:

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By ct_pro_percussio at 2012-05-22

Before: Bass drum shell was a 24" x 14" Slingerland bass drum from the 70's

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By ct_pro_percussio at 2012-07-15

Durring: Made some ears, new hoops, calfskin heads from scratch

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By ct_pro_percussio at 2012-07-15

Finished product:

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By ct_pro_percussio at 2012-07-15

GWM, where did you get the wmp wrap?

All of my regular gigging kits are rewrapped. No worries about bumps and bruises and relatively low cost. I have nice original kits as well, but they stay at home except when I want to give them some exercise.

Small, medium, large, depending on the venue, these are in regular rotation.

The 20-12-16 silver glass kit is a group of early b&b Jasper 3-ply shells. Already modded for beavertail lugs, I used later Fullerton clip lugs and modified memriloc hardware. The m/l mounts all had the extended tubes cut off: this allowed them to be attached to the shell without the large holes and the mounts/tubes/arms protruding inside. A pair of well-worn memriloc spurs were cut to the right length, as well as the upper and lower tubes for the tom arm. The 12" tom hangs on a Rims mount as well. Standard m/l legs on the floor tom. I have at least 250 gigs on this kit.

The other 2 are XP8 kits: 18-12-14 and 24-14-18. No mods except for the rewrap.

By the way, the badges on the 2 XP8 kits are polished Eagle badges. I don't care for Big R badges and the Eagles look pretty cool, very contemporary and attractive.

CT, those rope drums are comming out stunning !!

Thanks, gonna do my first snare drum conversion next week with a 50's era 16x16 Radio King shell that I picked up real cheap. The nice mahagony shell should sound killer as a rope tension snare. Excited

Finished and delivered this morning!

Cherryvale (KS) Middle/High School Drum Line.

(Here I go again -- not really vintage, just 20 year old drums that have been repaired and rewrapped. Sorry, no "before" pictures!)

Bill

Bill,

I am quite certain that is one happy band director and six happy young percussionists! You are a good man sir.

Here is an early 60's student model Slingerland six lug snare. It had been spray painted orange by a previous owner so I was able to get it pretty cheap. Slingerland always seemed like the "marine pearl company" to me so that is what I did. The badge is the original spray-painted badge.

...and here is a Ludwig Jazz Festival snare that a friend of mine gave me. Originally it was green sparkle, but that was faded to the point where I decided that it warranted a re-wrap. Otherwise the drum is on near mint condition. White interior. Sky Blue Pearl wrap. When I finished this drum I was in such a hurry to take a photo that I put the bottom hoop on incorrectly. After the photo I rectified that problem of course.

Here is my 68' Ludwig Standard. Was a very trashed blue astro. Carefully stripped, and professionally laquered. I have the matching snare, but this one, a WFL 57' is just a bit richer. Love 'em.

Further to my other post (#31) I've just completed refinishing my 1994 RBS-1 kit. This kit originally had a transparent black rubbed oil finish (alcohol-based toners w/ stain added and topped with Lemon Oil). Unfortunately it, and some of the other colours available at the time, had a tendency to fade - in the black's case, to a brown colour as seen in the first picture. The new finish (two coats) is called Vermont Maple - one of Minwax's water-based wood stains. The protective finish (three coats) is their Polycrylic Clear Satin.

09-23-2012 Further to the above, just completed refinishing the matching snare which I got last month.