Hi,

Here's another recent purchase to add to the collection. Special thanks goes out to Mark Cooper of Cooper's Vintage Drums for selling me one of his last Slingerland Broadcasters. These puppies are pretty rare so I'm stocking up on them.

1935 SLINGERLAND 5x14 SPARKLING GOLD BROADCASTER MODEL

The Shell:

The Sparkling Gold is in remarkable shape with minimal fade and no "cancer spots" but I wanted to clean and polish it up a little more. I was able to get a few layers of schmutz off of the shell and the Gold Sparkle brightened up nicely. The solid maple shell is in great shape with no re-ring separation and the shell is in round with a clean cloud badge. The interior is in excellent condition with a tight grommet and needed nothing done to it.

The Hardware:

Yeah, yeah, I know this was standard operating procedure at the Slingerland factory but the chrome plated Streamlined lugs vs. the rest of the nickel plated hardware still bugs the hell out of me. It's just wrong; so in the interest of authenticity and historical accuracy I left the lugs as is but I held my nose doing it. Two of the tapped Streamlined lugs were stripped at one end, not to fear, my good friend Al Schneider (the original Drum Doctor) once again came to the rescue and was able to hela-coil the stripped threads. Most of the nickel hardware was in very good shape, only the snare bridges showed more than normal wear but everything polished up nicely. There is a nice clean Slingerland Broadcaster engraved logo on the top rim and the manufacturer's cartouches are present at the snare gates.

Of-the-era top and bottom Slingerland calf heads and Snappi snare wires rounded out this fairly easy cleaning and light restoration.

Enjoy!

Mike Curotto