Just lifted this from "The Vintage Drum Guide."

"Hoshino

Hoshino Gakki.

Hoshino came from a company called Hoshino Kougyou"

This was my understanding, but again, I'm not an expert.

@Ralf - I'll probably take the less innovative route and give/sell it to someone with more patience than me. The broken lug is but one of this snare's many problems.

.The older Honda Passport was based onm the Isuzu Rodeo, not the Jeep. The only difference was in the seats and engines. Hoda used their own QC teams in the Rodeo plant during their assigned production run time. All the dash and other components were set aside in large containers that were rolled in during the Honda run. So, sorry, it is not a Jeep, but am Isuzu Rodeo.

And the same thing very well could have happened during some the production of drums, however it is highly unlikely as Star and Pearl were very fierce competitors. Now, the trading companies may very well have bought inventory from each production floor and badged it according to the distributors wishes, but shared production is highly unlikely.

"So, sorry, it is not a Jeep, but am Isuzu Rodeo."

Yes, I'm aware the Passport was in fact a re-named Rodeo marketed by Honda, but they were actually assembled at the same plant as the Jeep product. The point being that it was not assembled at a plant devoted strictly to Honda assembly.

It may have even been an Isuzu operated plant that did Jeep and Honda assembly work or possibly a Jeep facility.

Well I finally got around to fixing up this old Hoshino kit and they have been donated to a budding 8 year old drummer by the name of Salesi - hence the custom logo on the BD head.

These drums are pretty low quality by MIJ standards but despite a fairly rough life they were still holding together and hadn't been butchered by previous owners. They've been stripped, cleaned, polished and fitted with new heads. It's now a great starter set. Thanks to Mikey with helping me out with some parts too.

Very,very nice.Back from the ashes.And going to a good cause.

I added to a thread a while ago concerning Blackjack drums,which turned out to be made by Hoshino.Same lugs and incredibly poor workmanship.Yours are much nicer.

I love it! Nice job, it looks great! Love that wrap! So for being a 'poor quality' set, now that it's fixed up and has new heads, how does it sound? (And what heads did you go with?)

Good score mate, snare looks exactly like a 30's Leedy broadway with the box lugs etc. The hoops on it a defiantly premier die-casts and the strainer is japanese. The two sets of hole at the top are a dead give away as to having a top snare mech and muffler at some stage.

Early British drum companies made almost direct copies of leedy and ludwig drums so it could be a jedson or carlton. If you can post an inside shot of the snare shell I can tell you.

Because it was being put together on a limited budget for an 8yo learner I used a locally branded head on the rack and floor toms. They are called Primal Percussion and they are a single ply head that is about a third of the price of a Remo. They actually sound ok on these drums but the FT is a bit of a challenge to get sounding right. All in all, pretty good for a young learner though.

@Mark - I'll dig that snare drum out at some point and post some more pics. It's in really rough condition though.

Well! You have earned you're kudos with that kit, no doubt! I'm sure the kid is in heaven with that kit.

Good job!