Neeeeaaaat!

And you got very cool mom!! Cool1

love that tom holder- a real collector's item

Aww man, now my eye is twitchin'....nice drums, but I have another question now...that bass mount for the tom holder is the same as mine, and my drums are, almost without a doubt Pearl, not Star, and those are Star drums.

John, that is the same mount on my WMP Star made Apollo set. (Mine just isn't complete.)

I believe you- and the killer is I have never seen that tom mount in a Pearl catalog- yet I saw a Pearl drumset on Ebay awhile back with that same mount as well. How did they put stuff out on the market without it being in the catalog? It was a very different time

You gotta remember guys, these stencils were from the MIJ parts bins. What you did is go through the parts catalogs and choose your set-up. Then you marked the parts card and sent it back to the sales rep. He would look over your selections and either approve it, or make suggestions, or inform you that Bob in Omaha, at XYZ Drum Distributors has decided on that exact selection and you had change it until the set-up was "yours", hence the differences between ZimGar and Tempro, or Apollo and Stewart. See, they gave you options. That is why the Majestics are 50% off-set, Star did not want to do it initially because they thought it would be a mistake. However, in the market place they did well because they were "different", even though they were sonically the same as anyone of a dozen others. Oh, and shell selection in the early days was something else. They only had two, a 3 ply mahogany/poplar/mahogany, or the 6 ply lauan mahogany. The 9 ply shells came at the end of the 60s. The Star factory had both 3 & 6, while it looks as though Pearl only offered a 3 ply until about 67 or so.

[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Pretty cool ol' kit, Sly....[/COLOR]