ok, finally got around to finishing this shell up. I hand filed the bearing edges after truing on a glass tabletop with 120 grit sandpaper. The bearing edges took a while, but it worked out well. I also cut the snare beds with a file and a drum sander attached to my drill. I patched missing portions of the mahogany outer ply with dap plastic wood, and flattened the scarf joint seam on the outside with epoxy putty. I also filled all of the lug holes. I ordered some quilted bubinga veneer online, and used Heatlock veneer adhesive to apply it. Unfortunately, I didnt realize quilted bubinga is one of only 2 species/grain patterns out of 60 that heatlock's website listed as problematic with their adhesive! Luckily, I was able to get through with only a little splitting which I patched up with some left over slivers of bubinga. Now I know to ALWAYS use veneer softener! I finished it with 12ish coats of formby's tung oil finish wet sanded in with progressively finer grits up to 1500. As for the hardware, Its far from period correct... I bought a PDP piccolo snare from a pawn shop and took all the hardware. To my surprise, the lugs fit(with a small amount of persuasion from a drill bit) in 2 of the 4 existing(yet patched) classic lug holes. The strainer that came off the PDP snare is actually very well built, and the action is WAY better than the p-85 on my supra so I dont feel bad about not going with ludwig hardware. then off to my local music store for tension rods. There was an issue with that though, their stock was either too long or too short, so I bought 12 of the long ones and cut about 3/4s of an inch off. Overall, I like how it sounds and i think it looks great. This shell was basically saved from the trash and I debating even keeping it at all.