Of course, I am not suggesting anything of the sort, I guess it came out wrong...but concert toms....eeewwww.

Surrrre. "eeewwww!" NOW, but just wait ten or twenty more years when all the drummers want vintage concert tom sets! Mark my words, there will be a fad one day and kits like Octa-Pluses and those big copper wrapped Slingerland monsters will be like holy grails. Concert toms will return! I said it. :Santa:

You just never know. Therefore, I would absolutely agree that the drums should be cleaned and then loved as-is.

Concert toms are the bell-bottom pants of drums. I still look back on old pictures and there I am....wearing bell-bottoms.....long hair parted down the middle....good lord....One day, my niece came over and looked through one of my scrapbooks and said, "OOOOH, KEEEWWWWL PANTS!"

It's a beautifully strange world, sometimes!:Santa:

Whats old is new and whats new is old!

Another thing to consider here is that a kit like this is most valuable to a collector. That's where one stands to make the most money, IF that's your motivation. And any vintage drum collector who knew his/her stuff would easily be able to tell if there was a conversion. Trust me, no matter how good the work was done, it would be detectable. And, as we all know by now, once you put a drill to a set of drums like this, the value goes right out the door. Therefore, I would strongly disagree with the statement that turning them into a double-sided drum kit would increase the value. I would almost certainly state the contrary.

Plus the set would look just plain funny with deep double headed Rock toms!

I have a set in the same finish, jazz sizes and know of one other.

So they are rare. The finish on the drums rarely matches exactly because it shows the wood shells underneath. Any variance in the original wood color from the factory will show up through the wrap.

David

A couple years ago a 22, 13, 16 came up and I was bidding on them. At the last second someone put in a bid under someone elses name and the auction was ended by default. The next day I saw them listed by the owner as a buy it now for the price of my last bid. I hesitated, called my wife to show her and in the blink of an eye someone snatched them, ughhh! Hard lesson to learn!

I can tell you right now that there is no way i'm drilling these to add bottom heads. If there worth less because they are concert toms, so be it. I haven't even decided to sell these. I may keep them. I'm getting my three square meals a day and have a roof over my head so the value doesn't matter much to me, but if an offer comes along that I can't pass up I certainly have other hobbies that would benefit.

For right now, i'm having fun fixing them up. I'll keep posting pics as I get more work done. Hopefully this weekend i'll finish the toms and snare stand and start on the bass drum.

Anyone know a source for the little black rubber feet that go on these 60's style cymbal stands. Thanks to jonnistix for the drum hoop link.

O-lugs,You said it before i could..Never add bottom head's to these drum's A collecter will know you did it.And the Drum God's would be very mad at you for doing that :(CryBaby....Mikey

For preserving the beauty and originality of this great set of drums....I thank youClapping Happy2