Did Slingerlands made between 1950 and 1959 even have serial numbers?I don't believe they did (at least not for most of that time frame).There were also two different, and quite distinct, lug styles used during those years.Post some photos and we'll let you know what they are.
I have a Slingerland kit from that era, and they do not have serial numbers.
I don't believe serial numbers were stamped until into the sixties.
Hey OP, how about some photo's???:rolleyes:
From the the badge guide here..... the first badge that shows a serial # was the 62-70 black and gold Niles badge.
Who cares... More about Ned please...
Cheers
John
Yep. That's Ned, the drum nerd. He resides in a climate controlled bomb-proof underground chamber at a secret location in the Nevada desert.
I thought he lived in Iowa...:)
Uh, he's kind of a feisty dude, if you remember, so I don't want to say too much in case he's still lurking or something.
I do recall how he "welcomed" me to the forum by picking a fight with me about my handle, saying that it was playing Slingerland drums that made Gene Krupa successful, it was rather the other way around.
Then I seemed to be okay by him after I bought the New Rock set and cleaned them up. This lasted a matter of weeks until I remarked that I loved the way the Slingerlands sounded and looked, but that I would like to have as much flexibility positioning my mounted tom toms with the Set-O-Matic as I did with the Pearl mounting system I had fitted to my Maxwins.
He flipped and suggested that I sell the Slingerlands to someone who would appreciate them and go back to banging on my Asian firewood if I thought it was so "flexible."
Someone else trolled him saying that Slingerland copied the Set-O-Matic design from Meazzi and then he really lost his cool. Going on about how Slingerland invented the sold body electric guitar, etc.
That's when the conspiracy and threat stuff about Henry Juskiewicz started coming out. Something about one of the Gretsches settling a lawsuit against Gibson in exchange for Gibson buying the Slingerland name just to run it into the ground. I think Epi Stathopoulos' name got dragged into the massive web at some point.
The man knew his stuff, I will give him that, but Slingerland was just a company that made and sold musical instruments, they weren't the creators of heaven and earth!
-Erik
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Early '70's Slingerland New Rock #50 in blue agate (20-16-13-12)
Late '50's WFL Swingster/Barrett Deems in black/gold Duco
'70's Slingerland Gene Krupa Sound King COB
early '70's Ludwig Acrolite
'80's Ludwig Rocker II 6 1/2" snare
Rogers Supreme Big "R" hi hat
Often thought.. that if Henry & Ned had ever got together, They could have collaborated in the burial of so many more brands in Ned's Bomb shelter...
Some people are convinced that Ned (Needleman) is one of the multiple personalities of Henry. Has anyone ever seen both of them in the same place at the same time?
