blonkins, are you going after this one?? It is a beauty but man thats steep on the price!!

Bit out of my league price wise.

Man I bet it sounds good.

Beautiful colour.

Blonks.

The listing states single ply steam bent mahogany shells?

You can see multiple plys in the next to the last picture.

She is a beauty for sure...

Kevin, I'm with you, I don't understand how these people don't see the plies, they are clear as day. I emailed a guy about a snare he had on ebay not too long ago, he was claiming it was a single ply maple shell. Well first off it was an early 60s student model and the inside ply was clearly mahogany. I could easily see the 3 plies, that were seperating in spots mind you, in his blury picture. He replied to my email saying it looked like 1 ply to him, he never changed his listing.

It looks to me as though this could be one of those misleading looking things that are more of not really mis-leading, but more mis-understood. The inner and outer look more like veneers than real "plies". I know, a layer is a ply and a ply is a layer, but I don't think he is intent on actually mis-leading. I wonder if lonecomic could tell us the deal one these?

It's a typical 3-ply Slingerland mahog-pop-mahog shell.

There's a good read on Slingerland wood shells in the Drum Guide by DR. Wenk.

The exterior and interior plies are only 1/32th to 1/16th thick.

Deadhead.... yep, I saw that listing, I got the same response to my inquiry as well...

THE ANSWER (from lonecomic, our resident former Slingerland Floor/Production Manager)

The drums are SLINGERLAND....(we knew this)

It is really hard to tell some of the things here..

They are not solid mahogany (we know this...)

The interior and probaly exterior plys are mahogany

the inside is poplar.

At that time. Slingerland was getting away from the solid maple shell. After the war, It was hard to get maple because building was booming. Tool mfg bought as much as they could get their hands on..

So sling went to the 3 ply program They still used the Radio harware,,,they were called Radio Kings

The hoops were rock hard maple...You would bend a nail or crack the wood before youd go through it.

So this is the beginning of the 3 ply era..

The plys were individual layers...glued...and the placed in the pot 1 at a time...The bag would come in vertically , inflate and press the shell in shape..

You can tell that the hoops are spliced..

They are good drums...Not the solid maple radio kings though...

they will sound full and solid

Thank you very much.

Here's the link to Dr. Wenk's article on Slingerland wood shells that applies here.

Link.................

Believe it or not................

Jonni

You're implying that bass and tom drums were at some time solid maple drums, and they were not.

For a short period of time bass drums were solid mahogany or walnut, but not maple.

Solid maple snares were available until 1964.

1948 is not the beginning of the 3-ply era, they were the top-of-the-line mainstay of their production from 1928 to 1978.

I'm stopping now, cause all I'm really doing is re-stating dates and facts from the Good Dr.'s article anyway.

It's a great source of information that's available to all who care to read it.