Hi, Mark! Great to hear from you, as always! I'll DEFINITELY be re-wrapping this one. I always look for a "winter project" to work on and this kit will be this year's. You know, if a prior owner did actually strip the paint from the interior shells, as some here suggest, it would seem even more bizarre to me. Why go through all the effort and time for that? It seems totally senseless.

That makes about as much sense as those who paint the interior black. I had Leedy kit that had been painted black, it was well done, but they painted all the interiors black as well. I've seen other kits that had the original wrap, but again the interiors were painted black. It's mind boggling what people will do to ruin a vintage kit.

The center post double tom mount was introduced in the early 60s so there are plenty of sets with a center post and the fold out spurs. The actual tom holder continued to evolve thru the 60's but retained the 1" diameter post all the way thru to today and any modern post using a 1" tube can be utilized with the bass and will interface with the tom brackets if it has 9.5mm arms installed, which is apparently what happened here. The early five piece sets tended to have two 12 ( or 13") toms mounted on the bass drum and it took a few years for the idea of having two different sized toms on the bass to take hold.

I finished the "project" last week and thought that I"d share a few pics. I was trying to create a unique vintage yet classy look with this one. Hopefully, I at least came close to achieving that goal (lol).

Wow beautiful job

Like it a lot , reallly cool looking

Actually love it

Wayne

Thanks for the kind words, Wayne!

Very nice!

Now you just need the original style center post holder.

Check out # 183686293138 or # 233128490331 on ebay

Thanks, K.O.! That's the next item on my list.

Beautiful work! What am I seeing here, veneer or is that some sort of drum wrap?

Those are gorgeous. Very nice job.