That's a good six hour round trip and gas is over $4 a gallon, but hell, $80 for a piece of drum history?

Looks clean and it's got the matching snare!

Hit the road Jack....

The set is a late 69 to about 1975 made by Pearl..For 80.00 for it i would go get it..By the way the bass drum looks 20" to me NOT 18"...Mikey

Grab your cousin Elmer's Nissan 4 cylinder P.U.and GO-BDP w/battleship lugs and 95% complete!Very nice,and you never know what lurks in the local music emporium or pawn shop.

Bill is the 200 miles in my direction? I would think that wouldnt last too long. If you go are you going to take him up on the free lessons? he, he.

Jeff C

I've got a Dixie that is pretty much identical to that - but with a 14in FT. I have had it since 1986 and after getting the edges recut a couple years ago - they sound great, especially since I have, in recent years, learned how to tune and what best heads to use.

My vote is to go for it, but you could fit it all in a small car and save money. Perhaps you can work out a deal where the guy works----maybe he works an hour away, and an hour closer to you. Have him take them to work and do the deal there - and save $20 in gas. Never hurts to ask. I have gotten that thrown in the deal to close the deal and save gas money in the process.

For that BD, I rounded off the batter-side edge real well, used wood hoops, used Aquarian SKI and actually nothing inside for muffling (as long as you have a resonant head with a built-in ring) and it sounds great.

Toms - I timbre-pitch the shells to discover their natural resonating pitch, tune the heads (single ply) to that note, use studio rings and they sound real nice and warm.

That snare will actually sound good too - but the key on this (for all these) is to have TRUE EDGES cut very well. Without good edges - they will never sound good. Mine suffered for 20 years with bad edges, and once I had them re-cut - they just came to life!

Use backing plates for those small round BD leg mounts....that really helps re-inforce and preserve the shell.

John

That's an 8 lug snare - which is a bonus. Usually they are 6s.