Hey Juba!

Very good question and I did a project for Puresound in the vintage snare wire section of his web site. It involved taking pictures of the steps to install his wires on drums.

[img]http://puresoundpercussion.com/images/slingerland_layout.jpg[/img]

You can also see a bunch of other projects on the vintage wire page for other

snare drums

http://www.puresoundpercussion.com/vintage.htm

The butt side does overhang slightly and that is the way it is supposed to be. To do the project I had to contact a variety of people in the business and also borrow drums that I did not have including a Dynasonic, WFL Super Classic and an older Radio King. This Blue Agate is in my collection!

If I remember correctly this should have also had the install section with the

lay out, but it is missing from his web site. He did not have this wire on the web site as well as the Slingerlad Slap Shot and a few others. Let me check my system for the method of installation.

In regards to the Leedy, does it have the extended earlier 50's butt side or a standard butt side? Click the drum. This one has the extended butt side.

[img]http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/images/other_stuff/tommy_piorek/shelly_man_snare/Leedyshelly_man1.JPG[/img]

(Courtesy Tommyp) click drum for more images.

Hope that helps.

David

Here is a photo closeup of the butt side. Notice the slight overhang.

[img]http://www.vintagesnaredrums.com/puresound/images/snare_applications/slingerland_zoomatic_2/butt_close_up_large.jpg[/img]

David, I appreciate Excited the photos and links you provided. The "Artist" snare wires seemed at odds with normal wire placement. The used wires that I bought on eBay have very short metal tabs. I assumed that they had been shortened through metal fatigue (bending back and forth when changing snare side heads). The shortened tabs may have been a money saving attempt by Bud Slingerland Falling Do . My 1958 BDP Leedy - Shelly Manne has the extended butt that Slingerland later adopted for the Slingerland "Artist" and this would be a match for the PRS-1416 PureSound wires? Your work for PureSound is outstanding and makes installing the wires a "No-Brainer". Great work! Bill

If that is the case then yes it would be very similar to the 3-point strainer system on a Radio King with the tabs on both sides.

The Puresound wire tabs are longer then needed so that people with deeper drums or strainers mounted higher could use them and then regular mounted systems the tabs have to be cut.

You probably saw the Capri Pearl Snare on Puresounds Web site and that would be a good step by step method.

Those tabs are pretty sturdy and I used a hack saw to cut them. I then took a file and rounded the edges of the wire to give it a cleaner look and less chance of cutting myself with the sharp ends.

David