aDonor kit for a young man in Michigan is now, finally, ready to go in the box. At every turn it seemed something else was not going my way. At first it was the apparent integrity of the chosen shells. All 3 had good wood, but the rings were loose on each drum, at both sides. Many skewers and lots of glue, and quite a bit of foul language, they were finally done. The shells themselves were in pretty good shape, so some sanding and working the bearing edges all throughout and they are ready for paint. The edges, BTW are a mix of round over on the bass and mounted tom, and the floor tom a Gretsch type 30 and round over to the outside edge. All smooth and ready for the new owner to apply the edge treatment of choice.
Then came the lugs all in seemingly good shape, very little pitting, no real loss of chrome, but three different threads in the swivel nuts. So, many, and I mean MANY hours of searching and trying and cleaning the rods and sorting the rods and cleaning the nuts and sorting the nuts....oh my. Finally, enough to get all the lugs full. T-rods for the bass....uhhggg. 16 new T-rods and 20 some odd bucks later....
Hoops, heads....all purchased, donated and scavenged from other drums and others negotiated for the pleasure of being part of something like this.
Here, I want to thank all those who donated parts, pieces and entire drums. One of our fine members even sent an Acrolite, in excellent condition. A B/O from 76 by the ser#.
This will be a multi-post, showing the many steps to the final set.
