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This is a super sweet players kit. I love the Gold Sparkle. I am drooling.

Very nice job and the work has been well rewarded! Lew

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Posted on 11 years ago
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No question this is a WOW kit mate! I have a '70 Powertone kit and have wanted to do the same thing. Your kit looks great and really inspires me to get my @$$ in gear!

I have looked at a lot of gold sparkle wrap and it all looks orange to me. And what exactly is meant by a "players kit". I think I know but at what point do you determine that it is a players and what is the alternative?

1958 Gretsch Kit
1966 Kent Kit
1969 Ludwig Standard Kit
1970 Rogers Power Tone Kit
1970's Ludwig Vistalite Kit
1994 Yamaha Maple Custom
2010 Yamaha Maple Custom
28 assorted snares (including some real crap)
and 1 really nice K Zildjian Istanbul
Posted on 11 years ago
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From mcdrummer

No question this is a WOW kit mate! I have a '70 Powertone kit and have wanted to do the same thing. Your kit looks great and really inspires me to get my @$$ in gear!I have looked at a lot of gold sparkle wrap and it all looks orange to me. And what exactly is meant by a "players kit". I think I know but at what point do you determine that it is a players and what is the alternative?

Interesting question. I guess to me a 'players kit' is a restoration in which the main purpose is to make the kit fully functional, preserving the essence of the sound, but accepting that the kit is no longer original. If a kit had never been stripped; had all the hardware intact; no extra holes - then I would do a different kind of restoration. One similar to a museum I suppose. Once you wrap a kit, it's never going to be worth what an original kit would be. Also I really am going to gig this kit - otherwise I suppose I might have just put Swivomatic fittings on it. As elegant as they are, I just hate fiddling with them so my solution was to add modern fittings including RIMS (without extra holes). Some people hate this idea. But I wouldn't even undo the lugs from my blue Rogers, because as far as I can tell, the screws haven't been touched since 1964. Also I wouldn't re-edge a kit in original condition. This gold kit sounds great and it sounds like a Rogers. But it certainly didn't come from the factory like that; so to me - it's a players kit. $00.02

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