Not recommended. You will encounter a big problem with the eyelet holes in the hoop being too small to accept the larger 1/4-20" Sonor vintage tension rod. All good things come to those who wait. There's no visual profile that can match that of 60's Sonor teardrops, don't you agree? I can just sit and stare at them for hours!

Cool1

Agreed and thx.

jim

What about "S" hoops? Looks like the tab hole is large. Ask a seller to fit a 1/4-20 screw into the tab hole.

A shame not to play the drum,in the the U.S, there are plenty of MIJ kits

with Slingerland look alike stick saver hoops that are cheap,I would get some of those and drill the eye holes out to fit while looking for the orig hoops.

Well here is my experience with trying slingerland in place of teardrop hoops. I refinished a very out of round and beat up teardrop snare with not very nice hoops. I bought a set of really nice slingerland snare hoops expecting to be able to do a swap on them and no luck.

I think the fact that the snare was out of round and I have some weird thing going on with the lugs which some look to be drilled off center and they don't have spring loaded inserts made it impossible to use the Slingerlands. Also the fact that a teardrop snare is only 4.5" deep with hoops sharing the same lug doesn't allow any flexibility of the shell. Even with the actual sonor hoops I couldn't tighten one side before installing the other head.

Now on to the question of a 12" tom. I think it will work because I used a MIJ hoop which was very close in style. I eventually found a pair of 60's sonor hoops(which is really funny because the guy I got them off of has the same ebay user name as you).

I've done a lot of searching over the years for sonor parts do to my obsession of phonic and teardrop drums, it's hoops and tension rods that are the hardest to come by. Drilling out an oval shaped hole has become quite common for me using non-sonor parts! I use drill bit size 9/32"(.281") or 7.14mm. It's a little bigger than 1/4" so the slotted screws fit nicely through them.

Good luck, I hope this works for you.

Gary

Thanx guys.

+1 on the MIJ hoops plus they're much cheaper than vintage Slingie.

May have to go that route as I'm expecting this to be a long wait.

Any Drop parts that are not 13/16/20 are usually pretty scarce.

Jim

Hi Jim,

In this thread over at the Sonormuseum message board, somebody is offering to sell a 12" teardrop tom.

Best,

Magnus