Nice score. I'm pretty sure there are lauan plies in there as well but very nice shells for the time. The floor tom legs aside, your kit also has a 10 lug bass and snare as opposed to mine both being 8 lugs. Mine were filthy too, and the bass drum had a split in the birch ply also. They are pretty robust kits though and they clean up very well. Considering the tough life these MIJ kits have usually endured it tends to debunk the theory that they are poorly made and weak.

Hello Andrew

Thanks once again

I am looking now at this last pic you posted

of your drums sort of stacked up

Is your mounted tom a twelve?

Mine is a thirteen

The other departure from the norm with this kit

is the strainer on this snare is adjustable from both the lever side and the butt side

Nice score on our joint turf Kenwood. Beautiful kit. cool with the 10-lug snare. A real bit of MIJ history there. Of course, I'm not on that turf right now so you have free reign. Party

I played with a band out of Weymouth back on the 90's so know the area well.

Dan

Sounds like yours is the cream of the crop. Looking forward to seeing it cleaned up.

My mounted tom was a 13" but I had to check to be sure. I sold it a couple of years back but I always keeps lots of photos

Hello Dan,

Thank you kindly for the reply

Oh heck yes The drums will really be beautiful

once I love them up good and proper

I am thrilled to have found them

especially since I was not really looking for them specifically

rather I was just sort of surfing the available vintage non U.S.A. offerings on the bay

and there they were

now normally when I try buying something via an auction on eBay

I would say that nine times out of ten I am outbid

so I was a little shocked just to have won.

Dan when you return to your home turf

It will be "all you" buddy

I have one more kit in the works coming from Canada

and then I am done ...I hope....um ....err...that is

unless of course I find something really wacky colored and cool ....oh boy ...I think I am doomed

Cool about you gigging the Weymouth area ..I think that was my first time in Weymouth

Hello Andrew

Thanks again pal

I knew the bass drum was ten lug of course

But had not noticed the snare was also until after I had pulled the trigger for them

Kenwood, I am in awe of your collection.

So how many MIJ kits do you have now?

Those wrapped drums (in your pics) all in a line are just beautiful.

Yours may be the largest collection I have seen.

Thank You

sa

Wow Kenwood! You keep gathering up some unique MIJ finishes! That happens to be one of my favorites. Is the term "Root Beer Swirl" also interchangeable with "Tiger Eye Pearl"? I have some that are much the same-thicker shells with the gray painted interiors. Mine are not badged. I wish mine had the matching snare! You got a good one there, and it was local!

Wow ... that was the first kit I ever owned. I think I paid about $265 back in 1963 for it.

Hello drum peeps , sorry for the delay in these responses

we have my big sister living here with us

she is seventy-three years old with both physical and emotional problems

and she requires a good deal of attention and care

I have lurked in briefly a few times here to VDF to see what was new

but am only now finding the time for proper replies 1,000 pardons please

Hello again green glass drum

and Thank You for the kind words

I would say, of complete kits, either four or five piece,

I must easily have over two dozen.

I also have many three piece (no floor tom) combos

and a growing collection of simply bass drum /mounted tom combinations

these are for the most part the drums you remarked about from my pictures

I found that without the missing floor tom to deal with

and from strictly a "display only" standpoint

that all these bass/tom partials

are able to be positioned together in a row

in a much tighter formation, one after the other,

and with their varied colors are perhaps the most eye catching section of the display.

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Hello vyacheslav,

Thank you for the reply

I enjoy finding these kits and cleaning them up as best as possible

This tiger eye Pearl kit makes the third kit I found in this basic color

the others are a Zim Gar (six lug bass with thick shells ) much like yours

and a "Matador" (Hoshino made) kit with eight lug bass

These Matador drums while basically similar to the other two

have none of the darker brown almost black coloring in the swirl or strata pattern

only varied shades of the caramel -like or tiger eye coloring