I have a hunch variations on this question come up from time to time, but I haven't found them, so forgive me if I'm duplicating a topic.
Anyway, as part of a deal, I got a set of 12/13/16/22 70s Slingerland shells. The wood doesn't look to be too bad, though I haven't really scrutinized them yet. The black wrap is at the least going to need reglued at the seams, if not replaced entirely. Now when I say shells, I mean no rims, lugs, badges, nothing.
I think you can guess where I'm going with this.
My gut says trying to chase down all the correct parts and badges is going to set me back more than just buying a similar set intact. The logical part of me says fix the wrap, slap some cheap lugs and rims on that sucker and enjoy. But, there's part of me that feels these are Slingerlands and should look like it.
So, what would you do? Make them into cheap players? Restore? Firewood?