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I just acquired a Gretsch Catalina Birch kit for next to nothing because it had severe water damage. I intended on restoring it if possible, but after further inspection, everything but the 10" tom was beyond repair and is now at the dump.
It came with an old 6.5x14 Tama Rockstar chrome snare (pictured) that's mostly junk (rusted hoops, mismatched broken lugs), but the shell looks salvageable. I plan to clean it up and get some replacement parts, but I'm having trouble finding lugs with the correct hole spacing. When I measured, the spacing was just shy of 2 inches, and I found a Tama diagram that has the spacing at 48.5mm, which appears correct for this drum. Does anyone know of a drum parts place (online or otherwise) that has lugs with metric hole spacing? Sites like Drum Factory Direct, Drums For Sale, and Drum Maker all have imperial sizes, and the previous owner of this drum put some 2" Pearl lugs on it which don't fit well at all.
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Vintage kits: 1969 Rogers Holiday - black diamond pearl (20/16/13/12) 196x Star (Lyra/Majestic) - blue sparkle pearl (22/14/13) Restoration Project 1987 Pearl KC-3500 - jet black (22/16/13/12) Not-so-vintage kits: 2007 Hart Dynamics Professional 6.4 e-kit / Roland TDW-20 Snares: 60s Gretsch 5x14 maple WMP / 68 Ludwig 5x14 Supraphonic / 93 Pearl 3x14 Free Floating brass piccolo / 60s Star (Lyra) 5x14 luan blue sparkle pearl / 87 Pearl 6.5x14 steel |
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