A little more info for the masses~~this may be a Pearl stencil, the snare is a beast when properly tuned. One of the best COS out there. For the bass reso head, I usually spray paint these old thin Weather Master bass reso heads with Rustolem Ivory. Don't be shy, paint it from several angles, letting it dry a bit between coats. It gives the head a new lease on life, looks 100XX better and makes it react more like a calfskin, believe it or not. I have yet to have one of them not do well after the painting and it dries it out a bit to boot. Takes a bit of the ring out.

If both hoops are wood, that is a good thing, if not, go to www.aitwood.com and order some new 10 ply, 1 1/2" hoops. This is the absolute cheapest and best place to buy wood hoops for all drums. You can get them from 16"-24" in 10 or 12 ply, 1 1/2" or 1 3/4" maple or birch, for less the 60 bucks, normally, including shipping for both. Now that is the best deal out there and they are the exact hoops everyone else sells, only not painted or routered. You can get them to cut your inlay channel as well. AIT is simply one of the best places to shop for certain wood products, shells included.

If these are 3 ply, I would suggest using Aquarian Z-100 coated single ply heads. Even if they are 9 ply I would at least try them.

Thanks Jonnistix for your ever-growing knowledge on everything MIJ! as you noted some of the lugs on the rack tom (3) and one on the floor tom were replaced with bigger ones leaving small extra holes. I replaced them with some MIJ lugs that I had which looked pretty close (all MIJ Gretsch knock-offs look pretty close,same as the Sonor knock offs...) Very little elongation was requiered.. they hold and tune fine....The Bass drum lug do look differnt from the ones on the toms and when comparing them with another Karen bass drum from set that Im restoring (Copper diamond pearl) I noticed that they dont look like Karen lugs...HmmmmHmmmm...The bass drum has no badge either so It might not be a legit Karen...wow! that sounds funny!...A legit Karen! Still a perfect Wrap and era match tough...

Now about the snare...Boy!!!! that thing is a beast and the $199 tag is because of the snare by itself...A seriously amazing snare!!! The design of the shell reminds me the Gretsch 4160 drum! Whoever gets this set its going to be very pleased!

That looks like a kit that I looked at a few weeks ago in Norco that was on Craigslist.....he was asking $75.00 and I declined. They were too dirty for me. I told him if he got $75.00 he'd be lucky, but $50.00 in the condition they were in was more feasible.

Hey BBB! Yeah, I saw that set too. A friend of mine bought it. No,this is not the same set. I bought this one back in 2006 in Los Gatos CA. The guy was selling a Blue sparkle Downbeat w/ a Zildjian lot. He had this set too and I just bought the whole lot.

price its been reduced to $150.00!!!!!!!!!!!!

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