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Help identifying an older Pearl kit.
Did you also try this forum? http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38 Ralf
15 years agoStewart snare
Jonnistix, if it's THAT heavy weight, then it's a shell that was used for the legendary 'KingBeat' snare drums (like mine) as well ...! The 'KingBeat'...
15 years agoRoyalStar acrylic kit
That badge (round, black/golden) I've never seen before at another kit. I know a golden/black badge with 'Royal Star', but that's elder and has a tonn...
15 years agoStewart snare
Jonnistix, your explanations are 100 % right. At least in a certain time period Stewart seemed to be made by Star. And your snare looks like one of th...
15 years agoRoyalStar acrylic kit
Congrats! Nice - nice - nice. Am I right: is the round badge really a black/silver one - or is it too early in the morning for my eyes?! - Or is it j...
15 years agoSTAR drums
This website will tell you a lot: http://www.tamadrum.co.jp/anniversary/list.php?era=60 If you make pics of it, we can say more ... Ralf
15 years agoSame old crack/seam in the wrap - advice badly needed (teardrop kit)
I'd rather use a Sharpie pencil with an almost matching colour, or cut out a fitting (! - I don't mean a bigger piece!) very small piece of the wrap (...
15 years agoRestoring a unidentified 60 s drumkit.
Pics can tell more than a thousand words ... Please try to make photos also from the inside of the shells and close-ups from the lugs/ tom brakets, to...
15 years agoSTAR drums and it's turn to TAMA in 1974
Hello Revolvoer, I personally cannot give you hope conc. the screws and hat nuts as original parts from Tama directly. Here in Germany all that old s...
15 years agoSTAR drums and it's turn to TAMA in 1974
Oooops, I forgot 'DrumMate' ... That series was made by STAR as well. Similar cheap features like SwingStar (plastic bass drum hoops, 6 lugs only at t...
15 years agoSTAR drums and it's turn to TAMA in 1974
Great, Rob! I definitely will enter that forum as I can't see the pics as a visitor. Concerning the shells: the early STARS seemed to be of cheap Lua...
15 years agoLatest ~ reworked Tama/Pearl Jazzette kit
Nice kit, nice wrap, nice work out. I love those wood hoops in contrast to the chrome parts. Do you use a raiser for this BD or is a 18" diameter stil...
15 years agoRestoring a unidentified 60 s drumkit.
I know one good source here in Germany: http://www.stdrums.de For spare parts, too! Absolutely trustworthy and uncomplicated in carrying out. Ralf
15 years agoRestoring a unidentified 60 s drumkit.
Please, DO the restoring. Below you'll see the result with my old STAR bass drum. Left: status when I received it (the red rack tom had to go, it was...
15 years agoSTAR drums and it's turn to TAMA in 1974
'... I am sure Ralf will know.' Thanks, jonnistix, but that's too much of honour for me. I'm also only fishing in the murky waters of the STAR-past .....
15 years ago