Hi Everyone,
I'm new to this forum, this is actually my first post.
I read some of the Forum postings and I think it's really great that there are so many People out there that are as passionate as myself about vintage drums.
I recently purchased these two vintage Tama drums, within 1 month !!!
I guess I was very lucky.
The 1st kit is a STAR Blue Oyster Pearl finish with a 14" snare, 22" bass drum, 16" floor, 13" tom.....all original 100 % There are a few holes on the base drum shell that were made when the previous owner installed a Ludwig Rail conselet......in order to hold a ---------COWBELL!!!! Other than that it's perfect, almost mint.
I have to say that contrary to some posts that seem to indicate that the Early Tama & Pearl drum kits were of the same manufacturing quality. I think these drums must've worried the big USA drum outfits a little, They're actually very solid and well built. I've had numerous "stencil" kits in the past, but they don't come close to these Beauties.
The second kit is a rare Royalstar "Crystar" clear acrylic drum kit. It's really good looking, especially with the teardrop lugs. The drums are 20" bass drum, 16" floor tom, 12" and 13" rack toms. I mounted the toms on Ludwig Vibraband tom holders.....my son loves this set-up. The drum is almost 100% as well.......after the bass drum - tom mount screw insert was stripped, the previous owner decided to change the mount that is connected to the bass drum with some generic mount......that means screwing all kinds of ridiculous holes in the acrylic.....it works great with the original Royalstar tom holder stem, but what a shame.......anyhow, they still look great.
