Almost done with my resto-mod of a 50's Gretsch set. It is a 12, 14 18, and all three ply and all from the 50s...though some might say it's crazy, and some might think it's ingenious, but I got an 18" three ply Gretsch bass drum. The 14" is a crazy/ingenious story too!
So I'm so eager to set it up and give it a go, but my bass drum heads came in wrong, my wife brought home an EMad, aargh. So I will have to wait, and give updated pics when I get my bass heads.
I got coated Evans G2 for the batters, and clear Evans Genera for the reso. These toms are everything that anybody has ever said about that great Gretsch sound. They sound better than I could have imagined. The 12" tom had a wonderful sound at each increment from a loose pitch all the way up to a tight pitch, not one bad tone through it's entire range. The 14" was just as sweet, I'll have to take it apart, as one of the muffler mechanisms are rattling.
