TommyP: Flat out "stunning" kit, as are all of yours.Clapping Happy2

THANKS for sharing!

Many years ago I had an old Slingerland Radio King kit re-wrapped in Precision Drum's Antique White Pearl and was extremely happy with the results.

absolutely awesome sweet kit love to here them nice job restoring them!!!

WOW!

Just wow...

I used that very same wrap on my old Cloud Badge Radio King. It is gorgeous, as is your kit!

Beautiful outfit, and a clean, elegant set-up, as usual.

Stunner, Tommy !!

Simply stunning. That set shows very well.

Some additional commentary might be in order here.. because .. of ALL the GREAT comments from our fine membership on the VDF! Without further ado...

I want to mention again that I have been actively gigging with these drums for over 10 years now, and, they were indeed originally WMP. Nothing has been altered as the set started life as a 1965 Rogers Buddy Rich Celebrity model.. however! .. most BR Celebrity's came with a 14X22 bass drum as opposed to Buddy's standard 14X24, and this set was no exception. You can see this same set in my avatar pic above.. ( from more than a few years back ) .. with the 14X22, which again is how it came. So... for a while now I've had my eye out for a PROPER ERA Rogers 14X24 bass drum as that is the size I prefer to play, and it's also the size Buddy played. I finally located one!.. ( it took years to find ) .. and that is the drum you see here. Perfect timing too as these drums were first re-wrapped years ago by my good friend Jack Lawton, but that was BEFORE the manufacturer of these wraps.. ( Delmar Products ) .. got a bead on the shrinking.. splitting.. fading problems of WMP, and also before the "Antique White Pearl" was even available. Unfortunately, Jack's superb re-wrap suffered the same fate ALL WMP wrap's suffered... it shrunk, split, seams opened, etc. I took them off the front line last year to await ANOTHER re-wrap, and because I had finally found that proper era elusive 14X24. At the great risk of being long winded.. ahem .. the results are what you see here. Beauty is.. ( outside of the fact that these wont shrink, split, fade, etc. ) .. is that they play/sound GREAT!! I have always gotten compliments on these drums at just about every venue I've played, and ALWAYS from the sound engineers that mix for the house. They are always blown away. Course this is the stuff that we ALL know what with being the vintage drum FREAKS we all are, regardless of personal drum brand allegiance!

It would appear that MANY of you guy's have installed this particular wrap on your drums.. BHarrington.. OldSchool/Gary.. fishwaltz.. so you know first hand how nice and period correct this wrap is for WMP. Cool!

I "think" this performance may have been taped, and if that is in fact the case, I will see if I can get a video up on YouTube so this set can be heard as well. I will look into it!

THANKS again for ALL of your nice comments! :-D

Tommyp

TommyP: Up to trades... like a nice Pearl Export! LOL

Love that kit mann!! Cool1 f

snaremania!...

Yes!... I'll take that trade sir!... but only if the Pearl Export in question is a Wine Red 5 piece with a COS snare. PM me!!!! :-D ...f...

Tommyp

LMAO!!!!!!!

Nice! Really Nice....Cool1