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Anyone In California Have Any Vintage Italian 'pasha' Cymbals To Sell?
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12 years agoHelp Identify Tosco by Sabians (B20)
The cymbal pictured above IS, in fact, a rotocast cymbal. If you look at the area surrounding the hole, you can see an underlying "pinwheel" pattern....
13 years agoHelp!!! Drum finishes!
Commerical drums are finished with polyester lacquer, and it is a single-coat finish that is usually hot-sprayed and requires no grain filler or seale...
13 years agoTo Clean or Not to Clean
Cleaning cymbals doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing. You can remove surface dirt and grime and still keep the patina. Most people do not know...
13 years agoHayman kick pedal...no ideas
What you have there is a permutation of the Asba Caroline pedal made in France, one of the best-feeling and fastest pedals ever made (in my own and ma...
13 years agoRare Wrap? Big Beat Red Silk
The Ludwig Silk wraps (industry term: calendered vinyl, and seen onmy Japanese drums such as Pearl and Tama) were actually not very popular at all, an...
13 years agoLudwig by Tosco-Made In Italy
The cymbal business in Italy was pretty incestuous. Tosco in Italy was primarily under control of the Tronci Bros. There were other cymbal families as...
13 years agoConcert Tom site ready to see!
I JUST missed the boat on a Tama Imperialstar concert tom kit that was being sold locally. Metallic silver, and in great shape, including the original...
13 years agoAquarian Vintage Heads v Remo Ambassador AND Ringo's Hi Hat
Yes, Ringo used Premier before Ludwig, and I have seen pictures of him with the flat-based Premier stand. I don't think it carries the same weight as...
13 years agoOld Ludwig 6 lug snares: Universal and Pioneer
I had two of those Pioneers, a Ludwig and a WFL, and later sold one. They used to be common and cheap. They are like a second or third-tier collectabl...
13 years agoLudwig Thermo Glass Cleaning
The best thing for CLEANING would be naptha. For polishing, get yourself a can of Gibson or Martin guitar polish, which are formulated for nitrocellul...
13 years agoAffordable scale for weighing cymbals
I have a Dymo 10lb. postal scale I purchased in Staples. It has a "HOLD" button to hold the weight setting after you remove the object if it is blocki...
13 years ago1966 Supra Chrome - Not peeling to base, but copper color
Copper plating is the "bridge coat" in the triple-plating process. Nickel goes over the copper and chrome then goes over the nickel. It's rare to see...
13 years agoAcrolite shells
Perfect! You need to bead-blast the old grey coating and have it clear powdercoated.
13 years agoLudwig Rockers
The Rocker USA series, despite the fact that they share the same shells as the Super Classic/Classic du jour with the Standard lugs, are not really co...
13 years ago